How should we improve Labels in Planner?

Joanna Parkhurst In a project management context we use MSPlanner to record tasks that apply to approximately 100 different lines of effort, including about 60 different products, and about 40 different process categories.   We use the Buckets to create a Kanban board (Backlog/To do/Doing/Blocked/Done), so that we can analyse where my team is stuck, and reallocate tasking or resources when certain lines of effort become higher priority.  (we use the 'assign to' file for humans).   We are used to dealing with the 'infinite' number of tags/labels available in Outlook (which is how we were previously tracking tasks).  Most tasks have one label, however some tasks will have multiple labels (such as relating to product X, product Y and process )

At the moment, we are stuck because at 25 labels, we can only label the first 25 lines of effort.

Right now we need at least 100 labels, however I'd suggest it should be an infinite bucket.  Setting a limit on labels seems to limit the use of MSPlanner to only very rudimentary tasking systems.

Colour coding is a nice visual cue to have, however it will not hurt at all if colours are re-used - there are only so many colours.  It would be valuable to be able to set colours (as we can do in Outlook). More importantly, I would like the labels to sort A-Z (or be able to set the order myself).

Separately, we very much need to be able to distinguish assignment roles - including "leader"; "contributor"; "reviewer/approver"