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Darian Miller's avatar
Darian Miller
Brass Contributor
Mar 31, 2017

Planner search feature coming soon?

All services should have a search feature - and Planner is no exception. Is this a planned feature?
  • valpierre2023's avatar
    valpierre2023
    Copper Contributor

    A search feature to be able to search task description and task comments would definitely be extra super hugely amazingly helpful!

     

    Please Pernille-Eskebo_Planner_dev_team add it to the web-based version of the Planner 🙏

  • Tobias Beer's avatar
    Tobias Beer
    Brass Contributor

    Using the Filter feature is not good enough.

    Search should include esp. Notes, but also Comments, maybe even Attachments.

  • davidrmartin777's avatar
    davidrmartin777
    Copper Contributor

    Hello 2004 ,

    Seriously, will we go back to bulletin boards? Filter is useless, even on one's own tasks. And it does not work across all Plans. How can a product exist without Search or Find? 

  • One possible hack; when you create a stand-alone Plan (not a Plan in Teams, nor a Plan in Yammer), it seems to set up an Outlook group. If you then make sure everything is set up for maximum notifications, there is Outlook search of those notifications and their content to lean on.

     

    Still underwhelming, I know. Not sure it's better than nothing, as it may simply underscore the insanity of not having search in this tool.

     

    • Tim_Hannon's avatar
      Tim_Hannon
      Copper Contributor
      Unfortunately, more than a year later, search is still a problem. The filter only looks at the Task Name, if you're hoping to find something in Notes, Comments, or Checklist, filter doesn't find it.
  • Rob Walker's avatar
    Rob Walker
    Copper Contributor

    One of the best and most important parts of the Sharepoint ecosystem is the ability to search across everything. I cannot understand why Microsoft are releasing so many new tools without this:

     

    Teams

    Planner

    Flow

     

    There is simply no way we can adopt these add ons as an enterprise without proper search. In fact so much so, the lack of it (and the lack of understanding of just how fundamental this is by Microsoft) may drive us away to Confluence of some other solution.

     

     

      • Rob Walker's avatar
        Rob Walker
        Copper Contributor

        I wonder if anyone in Microsoft management realises that one of the most powerful Sharepoint ecosystem features is unified search across all content - emails, OneNote, Sharepoint sites, tasks etc etc

         

        Gradually eroding this by introducing supposedly 'new/better' tools is actually gradually undermining the value of the whole solution of apps, content and sites. It's certainly prompting our firm to wonder whether other alternatives aren't a better approach

    • greatquux's avatar
      greatquux
      Brass Contributor
      Of course 5 years passed without Microsoft ever implementing this and now UserVoice is gone. Not like it ever mattered anyway. Microsoft please implement features like this that people actually need instead of the useless crap in Windows 11.
      • CathyPPP's avatar
        CathyPPP
        Copper Contributor

        Planner app for Android has a search option!

        I'm not sure what it does search - but it EXCLUDES text in task name, task notes and task comments

        UPDATE: 30+ minutes after install the planner app for Android search does get results for text in task name.

    • Tobias Beer's avatar
      Tobias Beer
      Brass Contributor

      SanthoshB1 With your (unfortunately misleadingly) response being the best response:
      Neither can that user voice be found, nor can votes be cast any longer.

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