You can't assign more than 11 people to a single task. Seriously!?

On the top of all other Planner limitations, can the Planner team allow adding 15 people to a single task? Seriously, it's another road block for my organization to adapt to O365.

Brian-Smith

Former Employee

Oct 08, 2021

Is the task publishing feature mentioned above a possible solution for this scenario? A year later and not addressed because that feature isn't a core scenario that isn't already accommodated by other products or workflows. If we did add that feature your next ask would be that each person has to mark their assignment complete - otherwise the first says the task is complete and nobody else does it - which is why even assigning to more than 1 person isn't always a great idea. Project allows more assignments and individual tracking of effort and completion.

_Sheila

Copper Contributor

Aug 22, 2022

Brian-SmithI chair a meeting with a group of academics which has 30 members. There are quarterly meetings and each meeting results in some tasks for all members to complete on behalf of their Centre and some for the chair to complete. We are using Planner to list these, collected into one task for members with actions as sub-tasks and one task for the chair. We are unable to implement the overall hierarchy as the organisation is not ready to adopt this level of co-ordinated planning and I cannot get the central team to upload a csv file to enable our area to use this. Planner is the best way for members to see the tasks, and yes please I would like to see when each person has completed their actions. At least allocating the task to all 30 members would be one step in the right direction - currently I need to create the same task 3 times to enable all members to be allocated their actions.

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You can't assign more than 11 people to a single task. Seriously!?