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Brass Contributor

Jan 18, 2020

Planner Notification for Task Assignment

I was wondering why in the GCC Planner app the option to receive a notification (email, Teams, mobile push) when "someone assigns a task to me" is not available? And when might we expect to see that...

Local government

public sector

Kelly_Edinger

MCT

May 06, 2020

HIAdam Osterrieder - we're seeing it available in the GCC Planner now, but it doesn't actually send any notifications. We've had to manually build them with Power Automate. Curious if anyone in this community can shed some light. I don't see any reference to it on the roadmap.

scoleman89

Copper Contributor

May 29, 2020

Kelly_Edinger Can you elaborate on how you're using Power Automate for this? Is it through Teams? Or the Planner web app?

Kelly_Edinger
MCT
May 30, 2020
Hi scoleman89- from Power Automate, create a new Flow where the trigger is 'when a task is assigned to me' and add an action for Outlook to send an email.
- scoleman89
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 03, 2020
  Kelly_Edinger Thanks! Is there any way to do this on an org-wide level, or would each individual user need to customize the Flow to include their email?
  - Kelly_Edinger
    MCT
    Jun 04, 2020
    Hi scoleman89 - my apologies, I should have started with that one. Yes, in the GCC flavor of Power Automate, there is a trigger for 'when a task is created' then you just need to add the action to send an email to the assignee.