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Darian Miller
Mar 31, 2017Brass Contributor
Planner search feature coming soon?
All services should have a search feature - and Planner is no exception. Is this a planned feature?
This feature as been requested by may users and there is no update as of now from MSFT on when this will be available. Please cast your votes for this in user voice.
- valpierre2023Copper ContributorI wonder if there's another way to vote UP this feature request...
- valpierre2023Copper 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 BeerBrass Contributor
Using the Filter feature is not good enough.
Search should include esp. Notes, but also Comments, maybe even Attachments.
- Winchester441875Copper Contributor
- davidrmartin777Copper 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.
I'm thankful to at least have a workaround for search by using Filter. However, it's not intuitive to Anyone that I have talked to so far to go into Filter to be able to search their tasks.
I ended up creating a quick video show folks the current challenge and the workaround:
https://www.useloom.com/share/b3023f76cb6e45adb09e8e5e9c77ab4d
- Tim_HannonCopper ContributorUnfortunately, 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 WalkerCopper 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.
- Jonathan BanerCopper Contributor
It is absolutely absurd to not have it.
- Rob WalkerCopper 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
- Asjad KhanIron Contributor
Planner Search feature came?
- SanthoshB1Bronze Contributor
This feature as been requested by may users and there is no update as of now from MSFT on when this will be available. Please cast your votes for this in user voice.
- greatquuxBrass ContributorOf 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.
- CathyPPPCopper 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 BeerBrass 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.- SanthoshB1Bronze Contributor
Tobias Beer I have posted the user voice link for this question in the year 2017. MSFT decided to move away from the User voice in the year 2021. Now we are in 2022. Hope my response is not misleading as I will not be able to find all questions where I have posted the user voice form link and replace it with the relevant updated information.
- CNC-Aled-J-RBrass Contributor
SanthoshB1 I voted for it 4 YEARS after your request- it's still not been delivered
That's Microsoft...