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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
MVP
Apr 19, 2017
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.
  • Matthew Jarsky's avatar
    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
    • alanswo's avatar
      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:

         

    • Mustekala's avatar
      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. 😕

    • 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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