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Is Planner discontinued by Microsoft?
Hi Kiril, Planner is certainly not discontinued and we continue to invest in both Planner and Project. In Planner currently quite a lot of the effort is preparing for some features coming along soon - and hopefully you should be seeing more on the Roadmap - as well as new changes that probably don't justify a full Roadmap entry, like the recent addition of the Priority field and the very recently added Priority charts.
As Project for the web gets new features it will certainly be a lot more than Planner with a Gantt chart - and it is already well beyond that in terms of the scheduling capabilities and depth of plan that it can support compared to Planner.
Best regards,
Brian
Brian-Smith in the past I used to see a Planner button on Project to link some tasks and assign them to team members that do not have access to Project, but I don't any more. Was this taken away? The only difference I can think of on my side is that before I used an account that had a Project subscription along with O365. I have switched jobs since and my new employer has O365 subscription, but Project 2019 standalone, does this matter? It still asks me to sign in to my account so I don't see why it couldn't link the 2 programs together.