Forum Discussion
MicrosoftHow should we improve Labels in Planner?
As long-time users of the Office Suite, we're delighted to begin using To Do, Planner and Project to gain needed efficiency across our business. Most of our initial preparation has been organizing Planner for our Leadership Team's usage. In so doing, we've found the following three short-comings that would be easy improvements to code and would provide high value for us. PLEASE CONSIDER ASAP!
1 - Open the full task window when adding a new task.
The user experience is widely reported in forums as being annoyingly clumsy. What we, and many community posts, are asking for is a simple one-click open of the full task window. Today, we can only add 3 bits of data to the initial screen. When this proves too limiting, as it has with the 95% of the first 75 tasks we've added, we then have to click away from the add
1st click - add task, opens new task where we can only enter Task Name, Due Date, and Assign. This is the real problem because in our first 75 tasks we've needed to add more than these three limited fields to virtually 100% of our new tasks. Why not give us full access on this so we can use all the available fields? It wouldn't hurt anyone if this was the default. We could all use as many fields as we would like. But, because this is the case, then we have to proceed as follows to get to the full screen for every new task.
2nd click - Add Task - closes this new task and takes you to a possible next new task...with no way to easily open the new one you had just created.
3rd click - Click previously created new task to open it - result simply closes the new task box
4th click - 2nd time click previously created new task to open and edit it - result opens task where you can finally get to all the fields as desired.
Summary - Clicks 2, 3, and 4 could all be eliminated by having Click 1 simply open the full task window.
2 - Allow Users to control Label Sorting instead of forcing sort by recently used.
Again we find many posts that share our view that it is very annoying that labels order is only sorted by recently used. In our case, we have defined the following 7 stages of development that we want to use, which would be very helpful visually. Because these stages are SEQUENTIAL, we want/need them to stay in our defined order for easy selection.
1-Requirements
2-Design
3-Engineering
4-QA
5-Pending Publish
6-Published
7-Launch
Unfortunately, what the sort by recent does to our list is quite messy as the following shows.
6-Published
2-Design
3-Engineering
7-Launch
4-QA
1-Requirements
5-Pending Publish
Summary, please let us sort by A-Z, or even more simply turn the recent sort OFF so the default order just stays unchanged.
3 - Reduce the excess space used by each Comment in the log.
Simply, there is way too much space used around each Comment. This wasted space means that our logs are much longer than is necessary to scroll down through.
Summary, making the Comment logging space more compact would increase the ease of use.
Many thanks for considering our requests. 1 and 2 are big deals for us!
