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Planner Limitations
SanthoshB1 These numbers are way out of date. Please ignore.
After stumbling across this thread I put a ticket on O365 support portal which found its way to the Project Online & Planner support team who confirmed the following limitations (as of 31.07.18)
200 is a limit on the buckets in a Plan.
250 is the limit on active tasks in a Plan.
300 is the limit on tasks assigned to a user.
1500 Overall tasks that can be created in Planner Tenant.
13.92 MB attachment size in Planner.
Hey Craig Marshall -
These limits you've posted are incorrect. In particular, the limit you've bolded is extremely off. I will follow up with our support team to make sure that we're not sharing limits that are wrong and misleading our customers.
Brian-Smith for visibility.
Please feel free to contact me with any further questions.
Thanks,
Joanna Parkhurst
PM, Microsoft Planner
I am hitting 400 tasks limit in Flow for Planner - List Tasks - as of 8/15/2018
My company loves O365 and has been gearing up to use Planner, but these task limits are a big concern for us.
How can we commit to training our teams on Planner when we know we'll hit the limit in a few short months?
Without a removal of such limits from Microsoft very soon, we'll have to go with a competing product. How disappointing.
Fritz Griffioen Glad to hear your company is loving O365 and is excited about potentially adopting Planner!
Are there any limits in particular you're concerned about? As I stated earlier on this thread, organizations of all shapes and sizes utilize Planner (including our own organization, Microsoft!) with great success - we've built our service with the expectation that it should handle the workload required by organizations and were able to learn from Office products like Project and Excel to understand these demands. I'm confident that your organization could adopt Planner without hitting any issues of this nature!Happy to talk more about this, feel free to DM me as well.
Thanks Joanna Parkhurst. Please can you confirm what the limits are in each of the cases listed, and indeed provide details of any further usage limits that exist? We are not going to be able to adopt Planner if we are unable to ascertain its scalability (or even basic usability).
I've DMd you with a full copy of the info I received form O365 support.
Thanks in advance
Craig
Joanna Parkhurst Seems you have time to correct your support teams, but since Planner is released your product team has no time to publish an official support post about Planner limits? Not understandable. Recently I had also a case for Planner and was so disappointed about the support.
Maybe this support guy understands why customers want to know limits and got from other teams outdated information. How long should customers wait for official limits?
Hi Tobias - we monitor usage and expand accordingly. Limits are present to protect the service. Right now as I write this a deployment is happening to further increase those limits. I can't say what those limits are as the numbers will soon be wrong again - depending when this is read (like the rest of the thread). As a support person it would be nice to point to an exact article, but I also understand why the team are choosing not to do that. If you have a use case that you feel is hampered by your perceived current limits then please share.
Best regards,
Brian
Hi Brian-Smith,
We are aware of limits that are expanding and continuously changing.
That's why you need to continuously publish updates about the current limits as you go along.
A project, critical for the organisation, can't have a risk of failing due to an unknown tool limitation!
It makes me wonder how serious MS is about Planner.
What are the limits then if this is incorrect?
I saw this post from 11-10-2017 that said:
Removing task limits from Microsoft Planner
Many users have asked about overall task limits within Planner, and by the end of December [I'm assuming this was December 2017], we will have removed all functional limits to tasks. When users open their Planner boards, we will surface the tasks that are most relevant to them and provide options to fetch older tasks as needed.
