Announcing Microsoft Planner AMA on July 28, 2020

[Sarah.Gilbert]

We want to hear from you and answer your questions around using Microsoft Planner! We will be hosting an "Ask Microsoft Anything" (AMA) session on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time, here, on the Tech Community. Save the date! 

To join, simply, visit the Planner AMA space on July 28 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time and click "Start a New Conversation" to post your question. This event is open to all Tech Community members and we'll have members of the Microsoft product and engineering teams standing by to provide answers. 

In the meantime, if you haven't already, be sure to join the Planner Community. 

We look forward to answering your questions! 

[Kentcarle]

Planner has great potential, unfortunately, it is quite useless for many reasons.  1. You cannot create templates and then re-use them. 2. Tasks should be able to be locked so they can't be easily deleted by others.  3. If a template was enabled, you should be able to create a new plan based on the template, and when adding or deleting tasks in the new plan, it should not affect the underlying templated.  Unfortunately, changing something in the "copied" template, changes things in the template, and vice-a-versa.  NOT VERY HELPFUL.

You need to be able to create a template for Planner is the shared Portal space, and when creating a new plan in individual teams sites, it should be able to reference the shared template, and base the new plan on the shared templates.  I have tried using Planner multiple times, but every time I get about 10 tasks in, and I start testing, and I realize the limitations, and then I abandon using it.