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glascha
Brass Contributor
Mar 24, 2020

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

  • ClintSchlosser's avatar
    ClintSchlosser
    Copper Contributor

    glascha 

     

    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_Wehrendt's avatar
      Verena_Wehrendt
      Copper Contributor

      adam deltinger 

      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_Johnson's avatar
        Adam_Johnson
        Copper 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.

  • dz78787's avatar
    dz78787
    Copper Contributor
    Was 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)?
  • Amos Ahola's avatar
    Amos Ahola
    Copper 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.

    • glascha's avatar
      glascha
      Brass Contributor

      Amos AholaI'm not working for MS. I was initially opening this thread related to the Planner app.

       

       

      • TheCat_'s avatar
        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! 

  • JMcCorison's avatar
    JMcCorison
    Copper Contributor
    Going 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!
  • Cmatni's avatar
    Cmatni
    Copper Contributor
    It 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_c's avatar
      citizen_c
      Brass Contributor
      This is still an issue for our organisation. Is Microsoft doing anything about is?
      • Amos Ahola's avatar
        Amos Ahola
        Copper 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.

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