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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

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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.
  - scoleman89
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 04, 2020
    Kelly_Edinger Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to explain. I've worked out how to do that, but it looks like it would still require making a new Flow for every Planner plan. Do you think it would be possible to set this up so that it would apply to any plan existing in the org (current or future)?