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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
I found a workaround!!!
This is a little much but here we go:
- Go the the Planner web app (<!!!that's important!!!)https://tasks.office.com/YOURNUMBERS .onmicrosoft.com/en-US/Home/Planner/)
- Create a new Plan. Name it whatever your structure is. Make sure your Privacy setting is "Private". Then hit create.
- You will now have the Plan you just created open. Next to the layout options (Board, Charts, Schedule) is the more link "...". Click that then in the dropdown click "Copy link to plan".
- Go to Teams. Go to the private channel you want to put the Planner in. Click the "+" and in the popup click "Website". Name the tab exactly what you named the Plan to avoid confusion. Paste your url and hit "Save". If you get an alert that the site is not loading correctly, you'll need to open the desktop app Teams and you will see a login. Log into your account and that specific plan will load. !!!The plan will only display on the desktop app Teams at the time of this post!!! [sidenote: if you have multiple departments that are private like Social Media & Graphics then you can put the plan you just created into those channels also with a new tab.]
hi Rushton Mayo
thanks for the workaround. we have been using this to add the planner to our teams channel, but i still think it is not as convenient as having the planner tab directly. however, we can currently work with it as the display is only slightly smaller and we have not had significant loading issues with the website tabs so far.