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MJKsotech
Dec 10, 2019Brass Contributor
Planner for Private Channels
Hello all, Does anyone have any information on when Private Channels will get Planners? Teams is a collaborative tool, but you can't assign tasks to people in private channels due to the lac...
- Dec 11, 2019You can assign people of private channels tasks just fine. Private channel members are members of the Team so you can assign them tasks. The only thing you cannot do is have a "private" plan.
This is going to probably be awhile if at all since they have to rearchitect how Planner works to hide individual plans based on channels.
Anyway, you can use a website tab in a private channel to link straight to another plan if you want a link there, but you can most def. still assign tasks to anyone in the Team. If you need a private plan in general, then you'll have to have a Plan created on it's own, then a website tab linked to it and invite everyone in the channel, but at this point you might as well just create a new private Team for these people in the channel instead.
JesseIT740
Sep 21, 2020Copper Contributor
MJKsotech , A pretty good work around to use it in Private Channels is to create the Planner in a standard channel & then remove the tab.
Open the Plan in web client.
Copy the Planner Link
Open the private channel & add the link as a website to the private channel tab.
Works pretty well for our team, worth a try until they add planner to private teams.
Karinalaosa
Jan 15, 2021Copper Contributor
That looks a nice workaround. How is the privacy maintained if you use this? Can the People in the channel still find the tasks e.g. by searching etcetera.