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Sharing lists with others outside your organization
My wife and I (both homed in different organisational accounts) have just got this working for some personal lists by using a third non-organisational account to create the lists, and sharing them with our org accounts from there.
The process is:
1. Log in to Microsoft To Do with a "personal" (non-org) account
2. Create the lists you wish to share
3. Share and create an invitation link for each list
4. Paste each link into a browser and log in with your own organisational account to join it
5. Switch back to your org account in Microsoft To Do - you should see the shared lists alongside your usual work ones
6. From here you can further share the list with others by copying and sending them the link
This works well for us - we can remain in our org accounts but still share our personal to-do lists without having to switch or use yet another app.
(Hope this helps someone who is also still searching for a workaround and stumbles across this thread!)
Dan
Thanks Dan, your ability to do this must have something to do with your organizations security settings.
I can add the personal list to my corp account and it will be listed there but it does not update.
Never moves past getting list ready. Thanks for sharing.
- DanGrenfellFeb 26, 2023Copper Contributor
TQFordYes, I'm the admin (and only member of my org actually
) and don't have any restrictions sharing externally.
I see others get stuck on "getting list ready" too (despite being allowed to share externally) - in https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-to-do-for-outlook-365-is-stuck-in/ce0e38a7-4b22-4014-90d0-cc245f84658a I found they managed to clear it by moving the order of the tasks in the personal account which seemed to force a sync with the org account.
In https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/trouble-sharing-a-personal-todo-list-to-a-business/0444e8d2-fefe-41d7-aceb-82f744375790, they set up the link via the https://to-do.office.com and using the browser's "icognito" mode - I'm guessing that forced a "clean" log in to each account perhaps...
Even if either trick does somehow magically fix things, researching these threads it does all seem a bit flakey...
All the best,
Dan