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Pat_Tepen
Copper Contributor
Mar 31, 2020

Task Ordering capabilities in Planner?

We use Planner to track tasks related to a specific type of business strategy.  We have a Backlog bucket and would like to take advantage of  capabilities to re-order tasks in the bucket to prioritize in what order tasks should move out of the backlog.  

 

Today, we must manually order the position of tasks in a bucket.  It would be great if Planner had the capability to bulk re-order tasks, similar to how column positioning is performed for SharePoint lists.

 

Is bulk re-ordering on the roadmap for Planner?

 

Thanks -PT

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  • SanthoshB1's avatar
    SanthoshB1
    Bronze Contributor
    Apr 02, 2020

    Pat_Tepen alternately, you can use categories in the tasks and group by the categories. Have you tried it previously? 

    • Pat_Tepen's avatar
      Pat_Tepen
      Copper Contributor
      May 19, 2020

      SanthoshB1   Hi Santhosh - thanks for the reply.

      If I understand correctly, the term category and label are synonymous.  We currently utilize the max labels available for filtering and grouping purposes.  It would be great if a future Planner capability would include something like this.  

       

      Bucket

      Task NamePosition from Top [current position in Bucket displayed, with the option to re-order]
      Task A1
      Task B2
      Task C3
      Task D4
      Task E5
      etcetc

       

  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Mar 31, 2020
    I am not aware of this feature coming to Planner. Best you can do is to go to Planner User Voice and check if there is an idea for this feature posted there. If that's not the case, please post it so others can vote for the idea

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