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JamesPhImp
Nov 19, 2024Copper Contributor
Planner Premium adding a Guest
Hi We have just started testing the use of Planner Premium. We have a project that involves several third parties that we want to give access to the planner as a guest to the third parties, Howe...
RobEllis_M365Chap
May 06, 2025Brass Contributor
You would need to have a dedicated Microsoft 365 Group / Team - create the Plan in that group.
That would mean having 2 groups for the Project - let's say 'group A' really just for that plan, and the other 'group B' for everything else about the project.
The 3rd party people would need adding to group B, not group A.
- AmandaB_M365May 06, 2025Copper Contributor
The issue is MS Planner doesn't support linking a plan to more than one group, nor does it support the assignment of read-only permissions.
To really manually hack-around the need to give people read-only access, you could use Power Automate & Power BI to display the data, and publish it as a power bi report?
https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Query/How-to-connect-to-Microsoft-Planner-to-Power-BI/td-p/2088696