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Planner Task Dependencies and Task Ordering
Something I'd like to add to Planner thinking is the concept of Task Dependencies. If this concept was added it would make ordering somewhat easier whereby it could order tasks in each bucket based o...
I agree with your point, if you allowed dependancies it would get complicated and people would try and build plans within it better suited to msproject. However I dont think it would be a big deal to allow decent sorting and some sort of linking or cross referring of tasks. It'm also hoping that recurring tasks can be built in. Recurrences are no problem for outlook so why not this. I was a bit disappointed with planner when i first saw it demonstrated as it came across as a half hearted application a bit like some of the google tools that appear to do the job but in practice turn out out not to be usefull because of all the little things they dont do.
There is a good tutorial on using flow to add recurring tasks for planner: https://medium.com/@rob.quatela/creating-recurring-tasks-in-microsoft-planner-using-microsoft-flow-f605814734df
