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- Will the Teams "Tasks" app be updated so it's visually and functionally on-par with the Planner web app?
- AnavSilverman
Microsoft
Thanks for the feedback! We're continuing to make enhancements to the Tasks app bringing more capabilities. For example, we recently introduced recurring tasks, My Day, performance improvements and more. Is there any specific capabilities you'd like to see in the Tasks app?- The entire UI for Planner boards in Teams looks looks several years behind the Planner web app. For example, smart backgrounds still aren't support in the Teams app.
- Will Planner be sunset in favor of a free version of Project in the future? It seems like the team is having to juggle two overlapping apps, and Planner is getting the short stick. Why not lay it to rest and let all M365 users get a taste of Project with a 'light' version (like what the Visio team did).
- Interested in what you would expect in a 'light' version of Project that would be any different to Planner - apart from the name? I usually think of Planner as the 'free' version of Project, although of course all our customers have actually paid for Planner too, with their M365 license. Is it just the name Alex?
- I'm envisioning a version of Project (or Planner) that allows teams to manage projects with granular user permissions, assignable sub-tasks, DLP, version history and isn't tied to M365 Group permissions. Basically everything that Planner is severely lacking today 😉
- I'm not sure if this has been changed by now - but we need more than just 25 tags to be assigned in our project tasks based on Planner. Is this feature implementation planned?
- It would be good to understand your scenario for wanting more than 25 labels Ron. How are you using them?
- Would like to hear about Project Accelerator and how to customize P4W. The documentation for implementing into a non-default environment is confusing. Also is it correct that after applying the Project Accelerator in a sandbox or production environment, that P4W is not able to connect to Teams? This would be a game changer since the PMO needs to create projects and attach Teams to the projects.
- Hi Susan. I use the accelerator extensively, but the advice from Microsoft is not to deploy it inside the default environment (the one that links to project.microsoft.com for your O365 org), which also means plans you create in teams cannot take advantage of the changes to project that the accelerator brings, and you cannot "natively" attach plans to teams, just insert them as webpages to a teams channel and then link the storage of the plan to teams for docs photos etc. If you need any support on the accelerator, I would be happy to have a call with you to walk you through my experience and how I have customized it for my orgs needs.
- I wonder if this event will be recorded. I know that I'm already booked this evening (located in Sweden) and I'm really interested to know more!
- There will be a video with demos of new and upcoming features available during the event and after so you can return later to watch it. As Brian mentioned, any questions can be asked now or during the event.
- Some of the elements presented will be available later, but if you have any specific questions you can already ask here Olivia - and either before, during, or after the event, we can answer.
- If this is like other AMAs, there won't be a live-streamed event. The product team(s) will be on this forum answering questions below during the scheduled time (like a Reddit AMA).
Could someone please clarify what roadmap ID 124791 ("Planner: Plan sharing with file container") means?
"A new authorization model is implemented for Planner plans,?which will be a ‘shared container-based’ authorization model, where OneDrive and SharePoint Online files can be linked to plans to provide users with access to the plan if they have access to the shared container. This means that file-based authorization for plans will provide streamlined access to roster-backed plans that are connected to one or more SharePoint Online/OneDrive files."
- Hi Alex the first place you will likely see this is with the new Loop app with the Tasks component. It can have tasks that are in Planner, and rather than this creating a new Group for these plans it creates what is called a roster-backed plan. The roster itself can have members, but for people that get the Loop workspace shared with them (which can be thought of as a 'file' in this respect) we show in Planner that the Plan is shared with the 'file' as well as any direct members in the Plan. That way if the file is shared with additional people they don't get access by being added as a member of the plan's roster directly, but get access as someone who has access to the file. Does that help?
- Thanks Brian. I've seen the Loop-enabled Planner tasks which seems like it has some interesting potential. Are there any other plans to allow us to use Planner boards without Groups? This has been on the wish list since 2016 lol.
I'm curious as to why the Project team has been closing items in the Planner Feedback portal, citing features that are only available in Project. For example;
- A Request to add subtasks in Planner closed, citing subtasks in Project
- A request to add customizable fields to Planner
- The quick answer Alex, would be that if you need that feature then using Project may make more sense (and we won't add it to Planner) but I think the event on Wednesday will add more context about the relationship of the applications and will give you the full answer to your question.
If there's no intention to add a feature to Planner, please include that in responses to feature requests before closing them to make it 100% clear to your users.
- We look forward to seeing the vision of the Products and some of the exciting new areas of opportunity.
- NancyatMSFTThanks Jacques- happy to hear it and looking forward to getting your feedback as we make the vision a reality!
- Looking forward to seeing what's to come. For my team, we have >100 P4W Projects and the number continues to grow. I'd really like to see Project homepage overhauled, as I find it nearly useless right now. I'd like to see a list of all Projects, be able to categorize them into groups, assign statuses (on hold, active, etc), have a list of completed projects in an archive group, etc. Either an overhaul and/or allowing for embedment into SharePoint would be helpful.
- @Ty Vaugh - in your tenant with all these P4W projects, are you using the Project Accelerator? If so did you customize for your org and does it work with Teams? I'm having a great deal of difficulty setting this up in our tenant.
- I'm ultimately just wondering what the plan is for Planner. It's been in limbo for so long and is in critical need for a top-down refresh.
- Alex, check out the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. You can drill down to Planner (and P4W) within it to get details on what is planned, what is rolling out, and what has been implemented recently: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=
Thanks John_Hoover, I'm aware of the roadmap and feedback portal for Microsoft Planner.
Updates and improvements for Planner have slowed down to a crawl. Most of the few items that are on the roadmap have been delayed multiple times already (i.e.: Rich Text in task notes).
When the Planner team did an AMA back in April 2021, most of the questions surrounding Mentions, DLP and permission management were ignored and still have not been addressed.
Since that AMA, I believe we've only seen (1) recurring tasks and (2) suggested attachments released into production. These items were already on the roadmap at the time, IIRC.
What I really want to know is whether Planner has any kind of future or if it's in permanent maintenance mode, being supported by the Project team.
