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- I currently use MS Project for Web to create our Project Roadmaps for the year in Teams. When Project for Web becomes Planner Premium, will my Team notice, or will this be pretty much seamless to us? Also, I use Roadmaps for 10-year planning which ties to my annual projects. Will that be impacted during the transition? I am trying to figure out if there is anything I need to do in preparation of the transition.
- RobynGua
Microsoft
Darren_Lafferty I assume you are talking about what will come later in the year as opposed to what we are releasing today. In any case, we hope you will notice in a good way. We have not finalized how the "upgrade" of both Planner Web and Project for the web will happen, but our principle is that you will get the functionality you used to have, plus more (e.g. you will get My Tasks, My Day, ATM, etc. on top of what you currently have).
- How does this new approach integrate with Azure DevOps Boards?
- RobynGua
Carl Hunter Currently they are separate solutions. There's no integration, and no concrete plans for one. That said, we hear a lot of the community asking for ADO integration so it's something that we will continue to assess as part of our evolution and how we integrate with other sources of tasks. I you think generic enough pretty much any other app can be a source of tasks, so it's about finding the right integration extensibility patterns and prioritizing the work.
- How can I link work/tasks/projects to a portfolio, so that we can balance resources across teams, make enterprise reporting, stuff like that?
- I have the same concerns, Resource Management appears to be a missing feature across Project For Web and Planner Premium.
- Will there be functionnality to see human resources occupancy rate? Like how much of employee 1's time is already booked in total? Overall, not just on one project. Right now: - We can only see occupancy for one project at a time - We can add time for a task and add it to an employee, but the total for the employee also includes done tasks! We have no way to filter down to eliminate done tasks for the total.
- Project for the web used in the Dataverse has resource management capabilities, but no immediate plans to expose this in new Planner, although the tasks from those plans from the default environment will be in the resources 'My Tasks'.
- Will Planner (standard or Premium) have the ability to manage checklist items by assigning them to individuals and indicating a due date for each item? How about task dependencies?
- This sounds a good fit for subtasks in premium projects, but please share the scenario so we can better understand why assigned checklist items are important to you.
- 1. Will Planner show tasks from Project for the Web plans on other environments on the tenant, not just from the default environment? 2. When will we be able to use baselines? The tables are already in our environments, but can't create one that I can see. Will we be able to trigger it from the PSS API? 3. Are there accessible API changes, so not PSS, we can use to create and upgrade Plans, and report on both tasks, plans and projects?
- The stream seemed to have been cut short - still waiting for this part "including demonstrations on how to leverage Copilot in Planner to create plans, tasks, and goals and get Copilot to answer questions on progress, priorities, workload and more."
- I got 3 questions from a client: 1. How do you (Microsoft) plan for upgrading the old Project For the Web customer? For named org scenarios specifically? What is the task limit going to be? 2. Who is the target customer/user for the New Planner? 3. Will there be any restrictions when interacting with the Project API? Can we read, create etc.?
- There isn't really any need for upgrade as such, all the tasks from To Do, Planner and Project for the web are still the same tasks. Today you'll only see the default environment tasks - named environments coming later. As was mentioned yesterday at Meet the Makers, there will likely be some architectural changes coming, but those changes should be somewhat transparent to our customers. Keep an eye on Roadmap for task limit increases, and no changes in the API for now.
- Is there a current method to see how many customers are currently using Tasks By Planner and To Do in the tenant so we can get a handle on how many people will be affected by the new Planner?
- Has there been as much thought into the functionality of the product as you appear to have put into the logo. There are still some blaring gaps in functionality across the whole of 365, so forgive me if I am critical over the self indulgence over a logo.
- Hi Moose G - thanks for the feedback. We will continue to fill functionality gaps as we move forward, what are some of the most important gaps to you that's you're seeing?
