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KimSmed
Copper Contributor
Oct 31, 2019

Tracking tasks in teams

Is anyone aware of a way to track tasks assigned to other people on multiple teams? I know how to see all tasks assigned to me however, I would like to see tasks I have assigned to other people acros...
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ChrisWebbTech's avatar
ChrisWebbTech
MVP
Nov 01, 2019
Keep an eye out at ignite next week. Seen quite a few sessions around task collaboration.
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AlexH980
Iron Contributor
Nov 01, 2019

ChrisWebbTechi'm hoping something comes out Ignite to address this issue specifically.  I'm always hearing about how people need a central way to manage tasks across multiple boards/teams but the answer is "just get Project" which is not a solution for most.  Hoping the Planner team can close the gap more with more robust collaboration functionality next year.

 

KimSmedUnfortunately tasks are contained to their specific board and group, so there's no easy way to get a consolidated view across multiple groups and boards.   Even Planner's Flow integration is extremely limited right now, so there's not much you can do with it.

 

One potential path to getting a consolidated view of tasks is to (1) manually export each of your Planner boards to an Excel file, (2) save each one onto SharePoint and (3) somehow pull all of that data into a single report with your dashboards (excel again?), and then adding that report into a tab in MS Teams. 

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