Forum Discussion
Email Notifications for Comments on Planner Tasks
This:
Every task has a single group email thread associated with it. When someone comments on a task in Planner, they are added as an individual to the “To” line of the associated email thread and will thereafter receive an email in their inbox whenever a comment is added to the task.
from here under the section How do task comments work? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/reset-who-receives-email-notifications-on-comments-for-a-specific-task-6f513d8d-37f2-4819-afaf-e930762f3d4c sounds kind of like the functionality we are looking for. And that is how it works. So, if a task is assigned to a person they (the assignee) need to make a comment on the task and then they will receive notifications about any further comments made on the task.
But, what would be really good is, as soon as a person is assigned to a task they get notifications about new comments without having to make a comment themselves first.
I agree. Either of these two things would be preferred:
1) Those assigned to the task are automatically subscribed to the comments.
2) No one is automatically assigned to the tasks, but the owner can opt them in with an @ mention.