Jun 06 2019 09:13 AM
Would love to be able to add to the 3 existing states - e.g., "on hold" or "waiting for someone"
Jun 06 2019 09:16 AM
@Christine GreenAgreed, although I would prefer to have the option to add/edit task status values :)
Jun 06 2019 09:20 AM
@AlexH980 & @Christine Green Thanks for the question! So it sounds like you'd like to define more status'. How many additional labels would you typically use?
Jun 06 2019 09:23 AM
Jun 06 2019 09:39 AM
@Joanna ParkhurstSpeaking for only myself 5-10 custom status options would be a good place to start.
May 27 2021 06:50 AM
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Aug 06 2021 09:32 AM
Aug 16 2021 09:13 AM
Totally agree that to be able to customise the progress status field would make Planner far more powerful as a planning tool.
@Microsoft Support - any feedback on if/when we might get this feature?
Sep 16 2021 04:47 PM
Sep 21 2021 10:22 AM
Maybe I found a simple work-around?
Why not change the label fields (colors currently) to the statuses you want? The In-progress will (of course) still apply but the color labels could give more detail as to why the current task is "In Progress". In my case, I changed "Pink" to "Waiting on client", which shows up on the card and is filterable.
Just a thought!
Sep 22 2021 05:39 AM
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Oct 29 2021 11:43 AM - edited Oct 29 2021 11:46 AM
@bari_n Yes, agreed, there are lots of good ways that you could get around part of this limitation. For me, though, it's still a question of "why should we have to?"
Also, in our environment, we already use the buckets and tags for other things, some of which I would *also* have used custom fields for, were they available :(
Planner/Tasks still seems like a toy version of what it could be with just a *little* bit of customizability, and having to hack the features I want is pretty disappointing ...
Nov 23 2021 08:16 AM
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