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MS Teams Planner - assign task to the whole group
Hi,
can I assign tasks to everyone in the group other than clicking everyone one by one?
Regards
Karsten
- ClintSchlosserCopper Contributor
Its been 9 months since this was requested. It is important to be able to assign tasks to more than 11 people and in predefined groups, otherwise its not really "TEAMS" is it?
- No, not currently! There Will be better support for this when the new “tasks” in Teams is released soon
- Verena_WehrendtCopper Contributor
Hi! I was just wondering if this issue has been solved
For now, I can only assign tasks to max 11 people, and I need to pick them one by one. It would be very useful if we could assign tasks to existing groups (or even better, already created Outlook groups).
Thank you very much!!
- Adam_JohnsonCopper Contributor
Also wondering if there is an update on this issue being solved.
I work in a school and setting a task for more than on student would be really useful (yes I know we have the assignments tool) because this would help with general tasks.
- leastonCopper Contributor
adam deltinger Any update? This should be a priority for education. #tagyoureit
- glaschaBrass Contributor
- dz78787Copper ContributorWas this solved because it does not work for me? The planner is not useful for our team without being able to pickup subgroups(or whole team for a start)?
- PaulianPCopper ContributorAny update on this suggestion?
- Amos AholaCopper Contributor
glascha Key feature, would be handy to assign a task to all employees, such as "Familiarize yourself with the Covid instructions."
This isn't necessarily an import feature, rather could be "create task to all O365 group members."
Please implement this MS.
- glaschaBrass Contributor
- TheCat_Copper Contributor
My teams are falling apart to be honest. I can't assign homework at meetings easily and drop them on calendar and Planner in teams for teams... The whole point of planner is lost and l need another tool that will do this...it's been a year waiting for any boost in number make it 20-30 now please!
- JMcCorisonCopper ContributorGoing on a year now, and no update from MS. Scanning through this I find that I can't assign a task to more than 11 people. So I just spent the past 4 days putting out Strategic Plan into Teams and now I can't assign components to large groups? Oh heck!
- ThereseSolimenoMicrosoft
Hi JMcCorison I found this in the answers.microsoft.com tech support site. Does it help? Planner: How it's possible to assign a task to the team, not - Microsoft Community
- JMcCorisonCopper ContributorThereseSolimeno, Thank you for the link. Unfortunately it addresses integration between Tasks (Planner) and Microsoft's Project product. We are a small department and the cost of Project is something that we can not justify.
- stephanv27Copper Contributorneed this feature, too, still no solution?
- CmatniCopper ContributorIt is really a cool feature to be able to assign the entire group for a certain task, I wonder if this is on the roadmap of upcoming features
- citizen_cBrass ContributorThis is still an issue for our organisation. Is Microsoft doing anything about is?
- Amos AholaCopper Contributor
citizen_c
Not doing anything about this to my knowledge.
So that MS would finally take a hint: the feature would still be valuable, in practice this would allow assigning the a copy of same task to thousands of employees (= all members of the Teams in question) -> each one could individually complete it, and admin would see how big % of staff has done what they should.
- hugolivCopper ContributorWell, any update about this ?