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assigning tasks to volunteers
I am to create a system for us to assign tasks to volunteers (volunteers that could be inside or outside the organization, depending on what is the best practice). But I have no idea how to create th...
I recommend you to check Planner...it could really fits your needs...the downside is that Planner does not support Guests yet (it's in the roadmap)
Seems like Planner does support Guests now - at least half the way. I am testing Planner, and added an yahoo-e-mail address. I recieved an invitation to the yahho, could log in ... but it is not possible to reach the "Planner part" of Planner (tasks.office.com); all the yahoo user gets is e-mails and document library, and some confusing web pages. If I haven't misunderstood something, I think I will create organization accounts for the volunteers. That is, if I find that Planner is the best solution.
Since Planner uses SharePoint for storage and possibly the planner itself, Id look into seeing if you can turn on External Users from the SharePoint site. Might work then, i think its off by default. I started using it recently too.
- Thanks, I will definitely check out Planner. My thought in the first place was to somehow connect lists and tasks and workflows ... but Planner maybe does it better?
