Forum Discussion
Removing Users from a Plan
- Indeed! This is by design! Members of the plan corresponds to members of the Office 365 group! You can add and remove members to a plan but all it does is basically add/removes this members from the office 365 group!
There’s no way currently to add or remove members of any group plans without also add/remove from group
There’s no way currently to add or remove members of any group plans without also add/remove from group
adam deltinger Thanks. I hope that they change this behavior at some point. Or at least allow the ability to add multiple Planner apps in a single group. Especially when they allow subsites but you can't separate different Planners out per subsite (or at least customize the plans for each subsite).
Regardless, thanks again.
- You can have multiple plans for one Group, but its not obvious. To do this, go the SPO site that is associated with the Group, click New, Plan. This provides the ability to have multiple Plans for the Group, it does not provide any security, and everyone in the group can see every plan, but a least you can organize your activities by Plans.
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I am aware of that. If you look at my original message, I mentioned that we had created individual plans for each of the smaller groups. What we wanted to do was trim down who were the members of those plans, but had found that when we went to do so that it removed those people from not just the plans, but the Office 365 group completely.
Regardless, thanks for your response.
Agreed. I just experienced this.
I have a few "Plans" under one "Team". 2 of them needed to be deleted. I removed members, because I'd rather have it not show up as useless plans vs. deleting. But it ended up removing them from the group. This is absurd to me. The fact you can have multiple plans under 1 Team, but if you remove a member of a specific "Plan" it removes them from the "Team".
Not only that, but if you read this article (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/delete-a-task-or-plan-39e10e78-13f0-446d-94cd-9e562648497) it says:
"Every plan is also an Office 365 Group. When you delete a plan, you also permanently delete the group. This removes all group conversations, email, files, calendar events, and related information. You must be a group administrator to delete a plan."
I looked at the "Groups" in the Admin Center and no groups were named the same as my plans. So I assumed, because when I removed people from a "Plan" it removed them from the Team/Group, that if I deleted the the "Plan" it would also delete the Group. This is absurd.... The lack of clarity on something that can dramatically change/permanently delete a companies data with incredibly poor and conflicting documentation is not acceptable at an enterprise level. If this is by design adam deltinger then WOW.
