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Nico
Nov 10, 2021Brass Contributor
Project for the web tasks in To-do app
Hi everyone! Since uservoice cannot be used anymore, I hope this post will be read by a MSFT product group and take the suggestion in consideration 🙂 MS To-do (and/or Tasks by Planner) slowly but ...
- Aug 29, 2022
Nico Although this is not a feature, it is quite simple to do using 2 flows in PowerAutomate... I have developed just this. First flow creates a task on the Assigned To in P4W. Second flow monitors the Task GUID for changes in ToDo / Tasks and updates P4W tasks when changes are made outside of P4W.
Another option is to trigger and email to the user assigned the task and then use PA to flag the email if the subject contains... auto putting the task in ToDo etc
Or us adaptive cards to make an interactive email or Teams post to a channel so you still have access through the day to day toolset.
All the PA flows use the Project and Projects Tasks tables in Dataverse which is where the P4W data lives.
Loads of options if MS don't implement this, although would be far better if it was part of the standard offering, I agree.
Hope this helps.
CarstenB
Aug 30, 2022Iron Contributor
These are nice workarounds to implement this on a user-level, done by people who know what he/she is doing. But it can never be a company-wide solution. Please don't accept this as "solved" - if you want people to adopt the whole task management, push Project on the Web in the right direction where Planner and To-Do are going from an individual point of view. Gosh, even Exchange has joined the game long ago.
AdamTreadwell
Aug 31, 2022Copper Contributor
CarstenB I must disagree. When the P4W product is deployed to your tenant, it can also be overlaid with a Solution that holds a cloud flow. These flows can indeed be deployed at an enterprise level. This doesn't need to be done on a user-by-user basis and can be administered by multiple people by sharing ownership to the cloud flow. The Dataverse is the same tables used by everyone in that tenant so again, this is not limited to a user activity unless done so in the flow.
Once the customisation is deployed and published, all activity is then managed through the flow, which is where the correct parameters need to be in place so it uses the correct inputs to create the right outputs.
I agree however, that we need MS to take account for how the user experience is evolving, and tasks being a huge part of the day to day operation for many is somewhat lacking when working on local team tasks, own tasks, or projects. Too many places to view the same requests and actions being assigned to the user. I see 'To Do' and the 'Tasks app in Teams' being the central work queue for people, which is where MS need to include this so all task related activity is in some kind of users "Task Hub"
This is missing today, however with some development, this can already be added if a business wishes to do so. As long as Solutions are used to overlay customisation, we wont be impacted when MS release new updates of the core product. This could even include Azure task boards and external MS products such as Jira which demonstrates the capability is there, its just not included in the core product yet...
- CarstenBSep 05, 2022Iron Contributor
AdamTreadwell I agree that this is most probably a working way, but I don't see this as the solution. Why do we have to do so if there is an intended use of To-Do? This is the same pity that we already had in those old SharePoint days 15 years ago - different product groups and an overall story that is rather driven by marketing and gets a different understanding as soon as we talk about overall implementation.
Project for the web is such a promising tool and I really want to get people involved in our company. But not with another additional licensing in PowerApps and things we have to create and maintain what should be delivered with those 15€ we lay per user/month. I can't get the story straight for my users and this just destroys adoption. They just will use Planner and Excel for PM with all the shortcomings we are aware of.