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- If I remember correctly, there was a limitation of 1,000 items in Project for the Web. Projects that our team manage can be 5,000 items or more. What are the expected capabilities of projects and the number of items within Teams?
- Premium plans do still have this limit Mike, but keep an eye on the public roadmap. For basic plans there are other, higher limits, but no scheduling, effort or dependencies.
- I have access to Tasks by Planner and To Do in Teams. How do I know if my enterprise license has the new Planner, and which 'version' of Planner and will have, without having to ask the company?
When you add an app in Teams, see if you have "Planner". It actually gives you a nice introduction screen so you know it is the new Planner. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/project-online-service-description/microsoft-planner-service-description or https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project-blog/enhanced-collaboration-in-project-for-the-web-with-your/ba-p/4076639 are good sources to learn about the enterprise plans. Welcome to Planner screen
The features users want the most are the same Planner improvements that have been requested for the past several years: At-mentioning in comments, Task dependencies, Reminder date/times (like ToDo offered), Notifications in the tool vs. email only, Checklist item assignments/due dates, Manager oversight to tasks for individuals, Roles in Planner that diversify what various users can do in the Plan, recycle bin, etc. We see these questions in the posts below, but it feels like these core functionality items are being ignored in lieu of Copilot and Premium licenses.
- Agreed. I've started a new job that only uses Microsoft products and we need a task/small projects manager. I was going to start using the Lists app because its functions are more what my team needs, even if it means I need to spend more time building it out on the front end. I was excited to see that Planner was getting an update and so I've been holding off on Lists and waiting to see if they'd be incorporating the Lists functions, but so far, I'm not seeing the draw to Planner. Seems like Lists is still the better option... (and it's still not exactly what I need, but given the Microsoft options)
- These should have been added years ago. Basic things like this would make it easier for my teams to sustain plans instead of abandoning them out of frustration.
Totally agree with this! You honestly listed out the important BASIC functionalities needed for tech owners to suggest Planner OVER other tools. I'd also add the feature of sharing a plan with individuals without having to create an O365 group or simply adding "guests" to plans. The ability to work cross-functionally is critical to business use and we don't want to have to manage unnecessary O365 groups.
- You can use the feedback link to submit this request. https://aka.ms/plannerfeedback
- Will we / When will be able to combine Project for the Web Data (Dataverse) with Planner data in Power BI for a combined report?
- My question is what will be the users' perspective and the functionalities they currently have access to on the planner via Microsoft 365 in relation to premium plans and other plans, since we don't have that division today?
- RobynGua
Microsoft
RaulSoares with a Microsoft 365 license, you will have access to basic plans, which include all of the same functionalities you currently have access to with Planner! Premium plans require a Planner Plan 1, Project Plan 3, or Project Plan 5 license.
- NancyatMSFTAdding onto what Robyn shared, Microsoft 365 licensed users can also collaborate on premium plans. They can access the same capabilities they have in basic plans in premium plans, such as the ability to update task priority, task name, or task assignee. See our documentation for more info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/project-online-service-description/project-web-service-description
- When a task card is created and sub task are defined (check list), will be possible to add responsible and deadline for the check list?
- AnavSilvermanOne thing you could try, in the new Planner in Teams, you can create a premium plan, with the premium capability of creating sub-tasks. By creating sub-tasks you can assign them to owners and set finish dates. Thanks for the question and would be curious to know if this would meet your specific need based on your use case.
- RobynGua
PeterSzabo we don't support assignment and due dates for checklist items, however in premium plans we support summary tasks, under which you can have sub tasks with all task fields available to set
Jason_RhoadesWhat can we expect from Portfolio Management, assuming we have used that feature within Project Online for years.- When will the new Planner Premium be available on environments other than the default environment?
- I think Shruti answered live that it would be a 'fast follow' feature after general availability Anja, and mentioned 3-6 months.
- In Project for the Web there is a limitation of a maximum of 10 custom fields to be added for a project. That is a bit to little for multi-project-management in our department. So my question is, whether the limitation is the same in the new planner and if so, do you consider to expand this limitation, maybe to 25 fields:question_mark:
- Will there be a feature to create customized templates? And will there be a way to export plans like in MS Project (to for example print them out)?
- We don't currently have a way to create custom templates, but there are two things you can do instead. One I've seen is to build the plan you want (name it Template) and then use Copy Plan to create copies of it when you need. And another exciting one is to use Copilot in Planner to effectively build a new plan for you based on a natural language prompt. And yes, premium plans can be exported to Excel (coming soon for basic plans too).
