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New Feature: Priority field for Planner tasks is now available
As mentioned in the O365 roadmap, the Priority field for Planner tasks is now available. Microsoft has added 4 types of priority named
- Urgent
- Important
- Medium
- Low
By default, the tasks created from Quick create and all the tasks created before implementing this feature will be marked are added with ‘Medium’ priority. However, there is no option to add the Priority for the task without opening it. It will be easy for users who create quick tasks if the Priority for the task can be updated without opening the task.
I have posted the blog here which details what Microsoft has implemented in this feature and what you can expect.
https://www.jijitechnologies.com/blogs/priority-field-for-microsoft-planner
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This is great, but do you think there are any plans to add more priorities? We would like to list our priorities in a list, i.e., from 01 to 20.
Thank you.
Catherine
SanthoshB1 , that's an interesting choice of options. Most organisations rank priority based on two scales, importance and urgency. The two are completely separate (see Eisenhower's Principle). Some tasks are urgent (need doing right now) but not very important (they don't have a big impact), while others are really important (they might change the whole organisation) but take time so are not urgent. Having a scale that combines the two is problematic.
Is there a way to customise the options for an organisation, or to change the options to something that is more in-keeping with standard management practice?
The ideal options are:
1. Important and urgent
2. Important but not urgent
3. Not important but urgent
4. Not important and not urgent
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_91.htm
Ross Roberts - I agree with this prioritisation and use it myself, alas Microsoft didn't for planner. You could of course just simply map Microsoft's 4 priorities to yours.
Urgent- Important and urgent
Important - Important but not urgent
Medium - Not important but urgent
Low - Not important and not urgent
Or of course you could use the labels and your own classification because you can group by labels.
SanthoshB1 is it possible to change the default priority for new tasks in Planner? Today it's set to Medium
Hello SanthoshB1,
We might be facing similar issue. The 'priority' feature - which is very helpful to our team, is now unavailable. Thank you for Planner! 🙂
I see the Priority field is still available on the Web Version of Planner, but not on any of the apps...
I am a colleague of Tomas_fisher and i have opened a case in microsoft as we don´t see neither in web version
SanthoshB1This was a great new feature but today I see that it is no longer available. Any word on what happened or whether it will be back? All reference to Priority field appears to have been removed from help files as well.
cwb541 We're seeing the same thing. It was there this morning, and gone this afternoon 😞
Jonathan Badgett - I see it today (26/09) - maybe it was a "glitch"
.SanthoshB1 I have updated my Power BI template to include the priority fields - see https://applepark.co.uk/planner-priority/ for more info
This is awesome! So glad to finally see priority as a field in MS Planner!
Can this also be updated via MS Flow actions?- Currently, it is not possible. Hope Microsoft will support this shortly.
SanthoshB1 This is great! I've been waiting for a priority field... Where's the best place to be notified once it becomes available to set through MS Flow?
Currently my team needs to go set the priority manually after an entire flow has run and I'd like to set the priority automatically as soon as it becomes possible with Flow...
