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Board View Missing for "My Tasks"
Hi there,
We have adopted Microsoft Teams & Planner over the last two years for project management of high volume residential construction projects.
We have become very reliant on the "Board View" within Planner. Each user has historically been able within Teams to view all tasks assigned to them across all Teams in the My Tasks tab of the Planner app, and the tasks show up as "tiles". We have become heavy users of the "show on card" functionality to ensure that multiple assignees can keep track of tasks concurrently.
We are concerned as several of our users appear to have had changes to their desktop apps in the last two days which has added the new "list" view associated with the amalgamation of To Do and Planner (ie. the new "Tasks" app). What is most concerning is that the Board view appears to be restricted to each individual Team now, and we cannot see how to replicate the former combined Board view (for all Teams together) that we have become so reliant on.
We would appreciate prompt attention to this item - at this point if we cannot get this resolved, we may be forced to look into alternate task management platforms that provide more fluid access to tasks across multiple Teams concurrently.
I have attached a photo of the "old view" which is preferred (Board view showing My Tasks across ALL teams concurrently) VS. the "new list view" which for us is problemmatic.
Thanks,
Lesley Hutton
Preferred "Old View" (Board):
New "List" View:
61 Replies
- I agree, the board worked fine until the latest Teams update. I need this back ASAP! This is how we run our Team meetings. This makes me want to switch everything back to ClickUp. VERY VERY Frustrating
- Hi Lesley, did you find a solution to this?
- When you are in the context of a SINGLE plan they you will still have the Board view available. The view above is "Assigned to me" and shows different sources which may be different plans, or ToDo - and the different plans will have potentially different buckets. That is why there is no sense in having a Board view in the list views that show tasks from multiple sources. If we did there would be multiple buckets that may not be present in each plan - and what would the expectation be if you started to drag and drop tasks? I'd assume that what you need is the board view in single plan mode (as per your 'old' view) and this is still available, along with the new List view which is excellent for other tasks such as task entry and also multiple select features. I hope this clarifies the difference you are seeing.
Brian.- I disagree with you. There are many workflows (as I and others reported) to have Board view for My Assigned tasks that show tasks from multiple sources.
I couldn't agree more! So essential for task management and Project Management.
lhutton28 Agreed! Board view is essential!
lhutton28Yes!! This is very important. Suprisingly the useful board view is off after the update. Also own plans without channel connections are now missing in the planner app on teams. 😞
lhutton28 I agree completely. I work on multiple teams at my organization, and became heavily reliant on the Planner board to prioritize and organize my work. We absolutely need the Board view for the "Assigned to me" tasks to allows viewing my tasks across multiple planner boards from 1 screen. The Board view
Additional improvements that would be helpful, it would be best to allow user to set default views and more filter options.
Examples of allowing user to define defaults: default to Board view (instead of List view); within Board view, default to Group by Plan (instead of Group by Progress)
Examples of allowing enhanced filters for the Assigned to me view: allow filtering by Source (instead of only by due date and priority).
lhutton28 Hi Lesley, I misread your post at first, my apologies (I deleted my first reply). You are right - it appears there is no way to view this in the new Teams app. I agree this is much needed 🙂
