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Alon_iGlobe
Iron Contributor
Dec 19, 2016

Office 365 Planner Add-ins Business Collection - Work seamlessly across O365.

Office 365 Planner offers people a simple and highly visual way to organize teamwork. Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what ...
Donna Jones's avatar
Donna Jones
Copper Contributor
Dec 19, 2016

Some things that will make Planner very effective in a Business is:

 

  • integration with Excel:  allow the planner to export to excel will allow a way to anaylize the task in a pivot table which will give it the reporting capabilities that is missing from planner
  • Allow more than one assignment per tasks
  • allow printing from the program
  • make the charts more interactive
  • there should be a way to archive tasks - by dates would be great.
  • add a not completed status and have it included in the reporting

We recently discovered Planner for our business, but we want to use it for more of a goal setting planner.

  • Alon_iGlobe's avatar
    Alon_iGlobe
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 23, 2016

    Hi Donna

     

    Thank you for great input.

    • The Excel integration you will have with iPlanner Excel Add-in. It is currently in validation at the Office Store. I expect it will be avilable in start January. A preview - https://youtu.be/IppKVh7L1uE
    • I belive Microsoft is currently working on allowing to assign a task to more tan one
    • Printing, could you do that from Excel? fx a GANTT chart?
    • Interactive Charts, GREAT IDEA, I would say Excel and POWER BI. That is also something we are looking at. Might be in february.

    Beside that, did you try the iPlanner Pro Outlook Add-in? I would very much like feedback on that Add-in.

     

    Thank you.

     

     

    • Donna Jones's avatar
      Donna Jones
      Copper Contributor
      Dec 23, 2016

      Thanks for your response.  I have just downloaded the Outlook add-in and find it very useful to manage the tasks.  I am looking forward to the excell add-in because I feel that will give me the reporting mechanisms needed to make this a powerful (goal) planning tool. 

       

      Thanks

      • Alon_iGlobe's avatar
        Alon_iGlobe
        Iron Contributor
        Jan 11, 2017

        Hi Donna

         

        The iPlanner Excel add-in is now avilable at the https://store.office.com/en-us/app.aspx?assetid=WA104380686 

         

        Please feel free to contact  me on aek@iglobe.dk if you are interested in an Excel Template for GANTT chart.

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