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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Apr 18, 2017

Ability to send an email to Planner and create a Task

Is this on the roadmap?   Our organization is starting to lose the battle of using Planner instead of Trello, pretty much because of the sole feature that Trello allows you to send an email to a sp...
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DeletedUser2246
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I haven't seen it on the roadmap, but it would be a nice feature. I often think of tasks and email myself, although that's where the coming-soon Planner mobile app will help, but I'd still want email for when I forward something.
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Matthew Jarsky
Iron Contributor
Jul 28, 2018
It looks like this is coming:

“We’re in the process of finalizing designs for a Planner add-in for Outlook. From the add-in, users will be able to create tasks for Planner without having to leave their inbox. The email subject and body will autofill as the task title and description, respectively, and users will have the ability to set plan, bucket and assignees . We appreciate your feedback and patience and look forward to this first step in what we hope to be a greater integration with Outlook!”

Source: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/14767056-create-task-by-sending-an-email-to-the-plan
  • Matthew Jarsky's avatar
    Matthew Jarsky
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 28, 2018
    My mistake:
    MS is promising an Outlook add-in, but not the ability to create a task by sending an email to Planner or a specific plan.
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    Mustekala
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 31, 2020

    Matthew Jarsky Outlook add-on doesn't even begin to cut it. I need to be able to create tasks regardless of whether I'm using webmail, windows desktop mail (outlook), Apple mail (definitely not going to start using outlook there), iPhone (no outlook, plus I doubt it'd have that functionality anyway) or any of the linux devices I've got. Simply being able to forward an email to an address works everywhere, with every client. Nothing else comes even close. 

     

    I've been trying to migrate to Planner from Trello, but I guess I'll just forget about it and check again in a decade. Maybe Planner is closer to being useful then. 😕

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    alanswo
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 07, 2020

    Nearly 2 years later and still no progress.!!:facepalm:

     

    • Dan_Maximus's avatar
      Dan_Maximus
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 16, 2020

      alanswo 

       

      Has any one from Microsoft development made any reply to this? I can't believe that Planner and O365 don't have proper integration... I can raise a task from within O365 Web but not a Planner Task so have to keep switching from one app to another.

      Flow is OK... but why does it all have to be so complicated? It should be simple! :unamused:

       

      • CaseyL82's avatar
        CaseyL82
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 09, 2020
        100% agree. It's quite annoying to have all these 'intergrated' apps that don't really talk to each other.
    • Joe Fischer's avatar
      Joe Fischer
      Brass Contributor
      Jul 07, 2020

      alanswo 

      yup!!  I am waiting 4 years for the ability to attach an image from a camera control in PowerAPPS to a list item :).

       

      Good luck with yours 🙂

       

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