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How to manage recurring tasks in Planner?
I would like to use Planner to monitor the implementation of an IT team's production plan. Indeed, a production plan is a set of planned tasks - not necessarily assigned to someone but rather to a team. These tasks are often recurring: daily (for example, checking backups) or monthly (deploying security patches).
I could not understand how I could introduce the notion of recurring task directly or indirectly into Planner. I eventually considered that the calendar of the team concerned could contain recurring events that could be transformed into tasks via FLOW.
But I didn't manage to get to the end of that idea.
Thank you for your help if you have already done so or have other ideas.
- Unfortunately Planner does not provide this capability out the box so if you need this, you have to ideate a solution to be able to have recurring tasks in Planner...Flow could help here
FYI: Recurring tasks are finally coming (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=82028), currently planned for a release in November 2021. Microsoft Planner: Recurring tasks, Configure your tasks to occur on a regular cadence in Planner.
Patrick afraIT Today is November 5th and the recurring task is still not available.
Hey VictoriaCPA - Yeah, sadly it was pushed back to January.
You can just click the link I posted to see it yourself or search for the roadmap item 82028.
- Now it's been delayed till January 2022.
There are a ton of functional features that we all need, but MS seems to think we all care more about adding more emoticons... SMH!
This item has no updates in the Admin message center and I can't find anything on it outside of the roadmap that now says June (still shows in development), and it's June 23rd.
They seriously need someone to take over the prioritization of features!
- Microsoft, this is disappointing. Should we look elsewhere for task management? Are recurring tasks that difficult to develop?
Now it is July. Their roadmap still says this will be rolled out in June.
It is really disappointing that no one on the Microsoft team reviewed their “Tech Community” posts.
Just a simple update of when this will actually be available would be really nice…
We got a New Repeat Option in the planner through which we think we can schedule recurring tasks, but currently, it gives an error.
Did anyone else get this update & error?
Rajdeep_Rana For me, it errored for the first few days of go live (a "technical error" message displayed on the bottom of the page). I've just tested again (14 Sep) and it appears to be working for me.
- Is this for enterprise subcription only? I still do not see any updates.
I'm still waiting for Microsoft to roll this out on 15th December 2021!
- I didn't see December 15th being mentioned. On my link it only said January 2022.
- It is January 2022 just wondered if this feature had been implemented yet.
- You would think recurring tasks would be a high priority when Planner was created. It's now pushed to March and the timeline started last year. SMH!
This is become the typical norm. No seems to care about what the customers want or need. Microsoft has really gone down hill over the last decade. No following up on anything and pushing out products before they are ready.
- This is very basic feature for planner, and surprise to see they even delaying since last year on this release.
- Now it’s bumped to June… it appears this feature will not ever release. They will just continue to push it out a couple months at a time.
- For anyone who now has this feature:
What version of Teams do you have?
Our domain is managed by our enterprise IT, so I don't believe we have received the update yet that includes the Repeat function. :'(
Microsoft Teams Version 1.5.00.21668 (64-bit)This has nothing to do with teams. Planner is its own independent product. Just connected to the M365 Group.
GA is supposed to happen in September, and being rolled out in waves, so be patient 🙂
See also roadmap item 82028 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=82028LeahSattler I am on enterprise version as well and still don't see it yet.
- We don't have it yet either - hoping this hurries up as soch a positive change.
