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Ability to send an email to Planner and create a Task
Is this on the roadmap? Our organization is starting to lose the battle of using Planner instead of Trello, pretty much because of the sole feature that Trello allows you to send an email to a specific email address and it will automatically create a Task. It is quite a simple model: Email Subject = Task Title Email Body = Task Description Email Attachments = Task Attachments This would be a massive win for adoption. Looks like this is the entry with the most votes, but there are about 100 of them that individually are asking for the same/similar functionality:https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/13076007-ability-to-add-email-as-planner-task
Permissions within Planner
I had an inquiry from a colleague asking if there is a way to restrict members of a plan to where they can't create buckets or move tasks around in different orders. I think there is an interest in having some members have read only access to look at the tasks in a plan and others who have access to create buckets and move tasks around. Is this possible or on the roadmap?Planner Task Dependencies and Task Ordering
Something I'd like to add to Planner thinking is the concept of Task Dependencies. If this concept was added it would make ordering somewhat easier whereby it could order tasks in each bucket based on dependencies. Yes this would require some thinking in terms of manual re-ordering, but at least it would provide a somewhat better experience without having to manually re-order 50 tasks. Ordering is a major pain in Planner. I just created a plan with 42 tasks and 4 buckets (somewhat similar to Agile scrum boards). I created the tasks based on a proposal document from top to bottom. The first problem is that whilst you're working top to bottom in your proposal document, Planner adds the tasks in reverse order and provides no alternative method of adding a task to a specific position (Last, First, etc.). So for tasks 1 through 5 you add task 1 then 2 and so on, but Planner adds task 2 above 1, 3 above 2 and so on. With 40 tasks, what you're left with is having to shuffle the tasks around by dragging and dropping them one above the other. Painful! On top of that there are also random re-ordering issues which I posted abouthereHow to automate Planner and integrate it with Power Bi
Lets say on my work i have to do the same exact activities, one after another and my boss wants to assign those tasks to my team through MicrosoftTeams, how can i make like a sample tasks that i just change the name but the check list is the same and that those tasks are linked one after another. Besides that I want to know if its possible to graph how much time it takes me to complete those tasks using Power Bi or any other application from Office365. Thanks for your time and help.How to track the project or task time in hours
Hello, in our company we are users of Office 365 and we want to manage projects through Planner. There is, however, a very important feature that I think is missing, a way to control the time in hours that a project or task is taking to be developed. A stopwatch that starts, pauses and stops. Put another way, we need to know in the end how many hours it took a project to be developed. Is there a way to know it in Planner? How we do? As far as I know, it is only possible to define an end date, a deadline. But since we do not work on one project at a time, but on several projects at the same time, we do not know the total number of project hours. I appreciate the help.In which Office 365 Plans is Planner available?
Pasión por la tecnología... | Todo sobre tecnología Microsoft en general, y SharePoint en partícular… This is a very common question I’m seeing frequently in different Office 365 forums. Fortunately, you can find the answer in the official announcement about Planner Preview published last year by Microsoft: https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/22/introducing-office-365-planner/ As you can see in the FAQs sections and also after some research: Planner should be available (bear in mind that Planner general availability was announced last June, so it’s still being rolled out WW…according to Microsoft, Planner roll out should finish in August) in the following Office 365 plans: Office 365 Business Essentials. Office 365 Business Premium. Office 365 Enterprise E1. Office 365 Enterprise E3. Office 365 Enterprise E4 (this plan it’s not commercially available anymore, but it could happen there are still some customer using it). Office 365 Enterprise E5. Office 365 Education. Office 365 Education E3 (this plan is not available anymore). Office 365 Education E4 (this plan is not available anymore). Office 365 Education E5. As it’s stated in the same blog, Microsoft will add Planner to additional Office 365 plans (Office 365 for Non-Profits and Office 365 for Government) Some additional references: Planner FAQ by Tony Redmond: http://windowsitpro.com/blog/office-365-planner-faq Office 365 Education plans comparison: https://products.office.com/en-us/academic/compare-office-365-education-plansHow to add custom fields to a task in Planner or To Do list?
I am wanting to replace a excel P&A list that my team uses with the "Tasks by Planner and To Do". However, we need some custom fields added. I have searched but can not find out how to add custom fields. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Bill
Planner / Teams / to do / OneNote
Dear MS team. I have been using (and loving) MS Teams for some time now. But I have been using OneNote for eons (as the best app MS have ever made, in my opinion). The problem is they do not (at least not on a Mac) talk to each other. In the new 'unified' system of Teams, planner, and tasks being integrated, we need to have OneNote link into that too. Onenote has a tag for 'to do' so it would make logical sense that creating this 'to do' in OneNote was import into our todo, task, or/and planner tools too. If the new todo feature is looking to import tasks from todo, and planner/teams, then it must include OneNote also to be useful. In the windows environment creating a OneNote todo used to (i can't vouch if it still does) create a task in outlook. This doesn't happen in the mac environment. So a OneNote todo is an isolated tag. The only way of using this is to copy/paste (which is inefficient) or use OneNote search by tag - which detaches this todo's from the rest of O365. Please: Upskill the mac tools to equal windows features. Link Onenote to dos with 'todo', planner/teams Thank you. Keep up the fantastic development!Users not receiving email notification for task assignment
Users haven't been receiving an email when a task is assigned to them. They do, however, receive an email when a task they're assigned to is commented on or is marked completed (discovered this wasn't the case after further testing. The user will not receive an email until they are@ mentioned). If the user is subscribed to the Plan/Group, they will receive an email, but they also receive an email for everything, which is not what we want. Is this a known issue/bug? ETA on a fix? Trying really hard to roll out Groups and Planner here, but this issue is making it difficult for me to get people on board (continues the notion that Office is "hard to use"). According to this Support page, users should be receiving and email when a task is assigned to them: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-email-about-your-tasks-and-plans-cce223d6-b0ae-43cf-a080-266e2414a859
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