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- Does the planner gives you a graphically representation of a team's progress in terms of how much work is pending, overdue or done?
- Basic plans have charts that show this at the task level, premium plans have a timeline view that will show progress of the tasks as they are completed. Does that help Amritansh?
- Hi Thanks for the session today. How can use my M365 Copilot experience to ask for example from copilot.microsoft.com, give me a status of the Project ( PRojectr Premium) but also look at my emails and team chat to give me entire view of the project
- Hi Team, 1. Are there plans to add/show Planner plans in Power Apps Model Driven App ? 2. Is there a feature where we can set predecessor tasks to some tasks ?
- You can already set dependencies for tasks
- Is there any plans to add time spent on a project?
- This is a feature of premium plans, updating actual work spent on tasks. This is also available for M365 E5 licensed users - for tasks they are assigned to - so no need for premium license.
- Are you planning to develop Planner into a tool that can be used to manage an entire company's tasks instead of just a team's tasks? You can create plans for teams, but there is no way to manage all the plans and resource from a cohesive view. To use Portfolios we would have to have all plans in the same Team? Without the ability to see all tasks and resources across the entire company, Planner will never be a real competitor to tools like Asana, Jira, Monday etc. Is this in your long term plans or should we simply just choose a more suitable tool?
- Roberto_Bojorquez
Microsoft
Hi Jens, Portfolios may be the best answer here. No limitation of plans having to be on the same team. Alternatively, I wonder if the Planner features for Frontline workforce scenarios may help in what you are looking for here. These scenarios allow you to have a lot more control and overview of tasks assigned to your organization. Here's more information: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/the-new-microsoft-planner-new-task-features-for-organizations/ba-p/4117794I feel like this is a huge thing for Microsoft to get right, and I feel like the answer given here and on the otherwise great presentation shows a misunderstanding of what people (including me) are asking for. It’s something that even Microsoft DevOps doesn’t get quite right.
What I think people (including myself) are asking, is for sort of a way to look at all tasks in the entire company as if they were stored in one big data table, and then have filters, views and so on to work with those tasks. The tools that Jens mentioned let you do that. Microsoft is talking about either aggregated views (which doesn't let you work with the individual tasks) or Frontline tasks, that are a bit different than just normal tasks, across many different projects, programs and portfolios. As a project manager, for instance, I want to see all tasks, across all plans and portfolios, that are assigned to Roberto, to get a sense of his workload.
I think the problem for Microsoft is, that the legacy of the structure underneath Planner doesn’t allow for this to happen. That would require, as it was asked, for everything to be stored in Dataverse, but that’s not happening (yet). If that was to happen, then we could work with the data as we please… if I understood the question correctly.
Edit: a few minor grammatical errors and some formatting for better understanding
- Will you be able to create tasks from outlook by drag and dropping them to a plan? Can you attach emails to a task so you can see the email chain from which a query came? With the new updates, does this make Planner a viable alternative for project management in comparison to the likes of Asana or Clickup?
- "Does this make Planner a viable alternative for project management in comparison to the likes of Asana or Clickup?" - certainly not, based on what Microsoft have supplied so far re their development timeline
- Any plans (see what I did there!? 😎) on giving us a way to save different views to be able to easily switch between views during a meeting?
- AnavSilvermanThanks Johan (and yes I see what you did there :-). This is on our backlog, but no specific timeline yet. Can you share more details on how you'd use this capability today in the context of your workflow? You mentioned using these views during meetings?
- Yeah, sure! The bigger a plan gets, the bigger the need to see only specific parts of the entire plan. Manually changing grouping and filtering is a bit slow and clunky, especially as a lot of people are still not very proficient in Planner. Having a set of views at the ready would help quickly move between different topics during a meeting and would help with changing views temporarily for updating multiple cards by dragging and dropping! I myself typically can't be bothered to change the view so I will typically have to manually open several tasks to update task details (rather than dragging & dropping).
- so how can we best build plans for new projects build on a template now?
- How can I then use that for a next project? Do I have to start over again?
- Power Automate works well with Planner Basic. However, Planner Premium doesn't have the same hooks in Power Automate. Where can we find how to integrate Power Automate with Planner Premium functions? Planner Premium and Planner Basic feel very fractured from each other with regard to Power Automate and also with regard to how the date functions work through Premium and Basic. When do you see this coming closer together?
- This is feedback we've heard Adam and the product group are considering how to address this going forward with unification of the tasks platform. Add your feedback via the Planner app too so your voice is added.
- Good morning. I am a GCC customer with a Project Plan 3-GG license. I do not see the ability to create dependencies, as an example. When will GCC have the features you are discussing?
- GCC (moderate, not GCC H nor DoD) should have the same dependency capability for premium plans sknoop - open a support case if you are not seeing that capability.
- Roberto_BojorquezWhich level of GCC do you use? We recently enabled the new Planner in Teams for GCC-M. More details here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/the-new-microsoft-planner-in-teams-is-now-available-in-gcc/ba-p/4224793
