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MS Teams Private Channels - Planner App
Hi All,
I created my first private channel today and then tried to add a MS Planner tab to the channel but it does not appear as an option.
Is anyone else having this issue?
Hi edmm94,
this is not an "issue" it is not possible to add apps to a private channel.
This is one of the restrictions we have to deal with up until now. I can not tell you if there is a plan to integrate apps later.
Sven
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What's funny is that I can add third-party kanban apps (e.g. Trello) to a private channel, but not Microsoft's own kanban tool. It's like MS is discouraging me from consolidating into their stack
- please vote for this feature! https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/39080275-allow-planner-plans-to-be-created-in-a-private-tea
This is absolutely dumb.
Why would MS restrict productivity like that?
Example: organising a conference - theres one team. Within that team are different groups of people working on different parts of the organising - these people need to communicate and share taskts etc, but no EVERYBODY needs to know about all these details. how come MS always manages to screw things up. Just one look at Slack that everybody loves, and they should be able to get it...
helenolen There are of course instances when the information in a channel is secret to others (and it would be good to have a Planner plan as well) but you should probably avoid using private channels just to avoid that other know about it.
When it comes to Slack I believe a Slack channel is actually similar to a Teams team, not a team's channel. But of course there are good things in Slack that is not available in Teams (and vice versa).
Um.. that's exactly why i referenced to slack... at least there people can choose the channels they want to be a part of.
less noise.
Hi edmm94,
I have just faced the same issue. We've started using private channels in our company and we make extensive use of Planner. It would be great to be able to add a Planner tab into a private channel...
Jon
edmm94 Since the private channel does not have its own O365 group (only a site collection) I don't think those type of apps will be available in the near future at all.
ParLinderoth I think what you meant to say is that Private channels do have their one site collections unlike general channels. whether or not that is important for integrating apps like planner is another question.
lionheart85 Is it this reply you are referring to "Since the private channel does not have its own O365 group (only a site collection) I don't think those type of apps will be available in the near future at all."? I am writing that a private channel do have a site collection so I am not sure what you mean.
- See my blog on this and good thing to know om private channels.
https://robertschouten.com/2019/11/04/top-5-things-to-know-about-private-channels-in-microsoft-teams/Robert Schouten When did you wrote this, and what update does MS has about this Planner being added to private channels.
Hi edmm94,
this is not an "issue" it is not possible to add apps to a private channel.
This is one of the restrictions we have to deal with up until now. I can not tell you if there is a plan to integrate apps later.
Sven
Hello svenseidenberg
I am considering to switch from basecamp to MS Teams. Yet, without the feature of assigning tasks to members in private channel, I cannot use MS Teams.
BF
I agree with Benjamin980, this is going to be an essential feature for me when using MS Teams.
svenseidenberg Thanks for the response! Very interesting limitation. It allows me to add Power Bi which was the most important one.
I can use a workaround and just load the planner as a URL as a website tab.
Thank you!
can you please help on how to load as a URL and can we add tasks and use all the functionalities?
