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0365 Groups/Planner & email subscribing
We’ve got a bit of a tricky situation with a group on Office 365. We’ve allowed a directorate to be able to subscribe to the planner, in order that they can view a series of objectives that sit in bu...
Unfortunately not, it's intended for group collaboration so that assumes everyone wants to (and should) see everything.
I'd suggest posting something to the UserVoice site and putting your suggestion in there.
I'd suggest posting something to the UserVoice site and putting your suggestion in there.
We've run into this need multiple times, so hopefully something is in the works.
Essentially it comes down to 2 things weve identified:
1) the ability to "sub-assign" a task to another person not in the group without adding that person to the group (example a senior executive planner where a task might be assigned to a VP, but then they can sub-assign it to an actual worker that would complete and update the task
2) view only capability based on workload (so give a non-group member view rights to planner, but not the conversations, calendar, etc (or any other workload))
Essentially it comes down to 2 things weve identified:
1) the ability to "sub-assign" a task to another person not in the group without adding that person to the group (example a senior executive planner where a task might be assigned to a VP, but then they can sub-assign it to an actual worker that would complete and update the task
2) view only capability based on workload (so give a non-group member view rights to planner, but not the conversations, calendar, etc (or any other workload))
Well, if anything Planner seems to respect the "private" setting for Groups - one cannot browse "public" plans. Unlike browsing conversations/files stored in Public Groups.
