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Planner notifications and time information in checklists
Has anyone else experienced issues with Planner task assignment not sending an email to the assigned person? We are getting the new group membership welcome email and I have tested both alerts and ta...
At this time there is no way to send a notification to only the task assignee. As others have pointed out, there is now the option of posting task activity to the Group conversation timeline, then anyone who is subscribed to the Group/Plan will receive an email notifying them of the activity, however there is not currently a way for only the person the task is assigned to to be notified via email.
Well that makes it about useless. Once a task is assigned to a user, the whole team shouldn't have to get an email on updates :(
Is there a way to manage (turn on, turn off, etc.) notifications for Planner activity? I'm getting way too many emails about simple changes made...
- AFAIK, you have to configure it Plan by Plan. There is not a global setting to stop notifications at the user level for all the Plans you are subscribed to
For my own edification, this is exactly how it currently works:
If the notifications checkbox is NOT checked under "Edit Plan"
- No message is ever sent, period
If the notifications checkbox is checked under "Edit Plan"
- If the user is SUBSCRIBED to the Group
- If a new task is created, comment added, or task is closed
- EVERYONE gets a message in the Group inbox
- Subscribed user get a message in their personal inbox
- If a new task is created, comment added, or task is closed
- If the user is NOT SUBSCRIBED to the Group
- If a new task is created, comment added, or task is closed
- EVERYONE gets a message in the Group inbox
- User does NOT get a message in their personal inbox
- If a new task is created, comment added, or task is closed
