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jcgonzalezmartin
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May 13, 2017

Finally...Microsoft Planner support has been added to Flow

Microsoft Planner support in Flow is finally here: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/planner-community-and-licenses/ A big applause to the Flow Team!!
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ta_pb
Iron Contributor
May 15, 2017
I've had a go exploring the features. It looks good. Are we ever likely to see support in the reverse direction. e.g. When I create a Planner task, create a Wunderlist/Outlook task?
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Joachim Schirra
Copper Contributor
May 17, 2017

Hi Philemon,

 

I can certainly confirm that the way you asked for (Planner creates a task in Outlook) already is a working feature today.

However, it is not working with Wunderlist or the new successor of Wunderlist, the Microsoft To-Do App.

 

In addition, it just creates tasks, but no calendar entries. This is still something to be done manually once you created a new card in Planner which in itself automatically creates a task in Outlook. It is up to you then to drag this automatically created task to a certain date and time, even if this information is already part of the information in your planner card (e.g. due date)

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best regards,

 

Joachim

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    SanthoshB1
    Bronze Contributor
    May 17, 2017

    Hi Joachim Schirra, can you confirm that you manually start a trigger each time when new cards are created in Planner? So it will be created in Outlook.

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      ta_pb
      Iron Contributor
      May 17, 2017

      Are you sure? When I use planner I only get Actions not Triggers see screenshot below

      • Joachim Schirra's avatar
        Joachim Schirra
        Copper Contributor
        May 17, 2017

        ta_pb & SanthoshB1: I have to apologize for the confusion I created. You and Santosh are absolutely right. It does not work. I somehow mixed it with the functionality of the new Microsoft To-Do App, which is indeed able to create tasks in Outlook.

         

        I don´t know why I mixed this with Planner´s (Un-)ability to do this. The only explanation I have is that it was a kind of wishfull thinking that Planner should have the same functionality... ;-)

         

        Sorry again for the confusion I created...

         

        Best regards,

         

        Joachim

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