Apr 18 2017 08:45 AM
Is this on the roadmap?
Our organization is starting to lose the battle of using Planner instead of Trello, pretty much because of the sole feature that Trello allows you to send an email to a specific email address and it will automatically create a Task.
It is quite a simple model:
Email Subject = Task Title
Email Body = Task Description
Email Attachments = Task Attachments
This would be a massive win for adoption.
Looks like this is the entry with the most votes, but there are about 100 of them that individually are asking for the same/similar functionality: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/13076007-ab...
Apr 18 2017 06:41 PM
Oct 16 2017 05:55 AM
Dec 13 2017 03:58 PM
Going to give this a try; however, I know my users and it would be far simpler for them to be able to forward an email than work with Flow.
Jan 13 2018 07:02 AM
The problem with FLOW is that it is very flaky right now, sometime it works and sometimes it doesn't.
I have a FLOW that creates a planner task.
the busoinies wants a choice column from the list and a text column concatinated to create the description. then it flips a flag in my list to move the list item from the new view to the MKTing view.
Most of the time if I only choose one option in the request type FLOW will work, the planner is created and the flag is flipped, Life is great 🙂
Now I try to choose 2 items and it blows up on me. can't find ID.
Burt sometime it works. Everytime I go to put this into produsction for my users it seems to fail, but if I go update the FLOW (without changing anything ) it sometimes works the first time thru.
I added a few screenshot, maybe there is something obvious I am doing wrong? I have been following all kinds blogs and it seems like I am doing this correctly 🙂
TIA,
Joe
Jun 13 2018 07:22 AM
Would definitely help
Very simply the email subject could be the planner subject, and the rest of the task can remain blank to fill in. Perhaps the forwarded email can just be attached to the task with any other attachments available from there.
Jul 11 2018 06:45 AM
Hello,
have you tried having a delay before getting the task id ?
Seems to be working for me for my short flow.
Current delay is set to 30 seconds, I am looking into if it can be shorter, but hopefully this can help you.
Cheers.
Jul 11 2018 07:26 AM
Thanks Kristjan,
Yes I figured out the delay a while back 🙂
Unfortunately, I have had soo many FLOW issues, that I can't remember every post to go back to and update.
Jul 28 2018 07:48 AM
Jul 28 2018 07:55 AM
May 22 2019 04:43 AM - edited May 22 2019 04:49 AM
I've adopted the flow called: 'Create a task in Planner when a new emial arrives in a shared mialbox' in a way that I have a tag in the subject line which is needed to trigger the flow.
Since the subject line is used as a task title, the tag is removed in the process.
However I don't see an option to add attachments to the task as neither "Update task details" nor "Update task" step provides an option to add attachments.
The last step in the flow deletes the flow triggering email from the shared mailbox.
Sep 09 2019 02:13 PM
@Brent Ellis Is there any news on this key functionality? Seems totally bizarre that something @Trello nailed yonks ago - the ability to simply send an email directly into their platform so it becomes automatically a task - still eludes the otherwise pretty cool Planner. Or am I missing a major development....? 30 months should've been enough time.
Jan 30 2020 11:39 PM
@Matthew Jarsky Outlook add-on doesn't even begin to cut it. I need to be able to create tasks regardless of whether I'm using webmail, windows desktop mail (outlook), Apple mail (definitely not going to start using outlook there), iPhone (no outlook, plus I doubt it'd have that functionality anyway) or any of the linux devices I've got. Simply being able to forward an email to an address works everywhere, with every client. Nothing else comes even close.
I've been trying to migrate to Planner from Trello, but I guess I'll just forget about it and check again in a decade. Maybe Planner is closer to being useful then. 😕
Feb 13 2020 06:04 AM
Mar 04 2020 07:11 AM
@robfiore i second this and looking forward to the implementation. I would like to see Microsoft make fewer apps better, rather than a cluster of half-baked ideas!
Mar 09 2020 07:53 AM
I've created a power automate flow to create a task when a forms is completed.
I've ran in the same problem than you about filling all the task's informations. Flow's connector is not complete...
So i've done differently : Only one document in the form is possible, my flow go read in the excel sheet where are stored the forms answer to take the localisation of the file and i've formatted all the information i need in the task's comment section.
Maybe you should go by the same way : "when an email is send with "keyword" in title" / create a line in excel sheet / then create a task with information in the excel sheet.
But you will probably need to use variable definition and function to cut your information in the mail and put in inside comment task...
Jul 06 2020 12:17 PM
Jul 07 2020 02:04 PM
Nearly 2 years later and still no progress.!!
Jul 07 2020 02:16 PM
yup!! I am waiting 4 years for the ability to attach an image from a camera control in PowerAPPS to a list item :).
Good luck with yours 🙂
Aug 16 2020 01:48 AM
Has any one from Microsoft development made any reply to this? I can't believe that Planner and O365 don't have proper integration... I can raise a task from within O365 Web but not a Planner Task so have to keep switching from one app to another.
Flow is OK... but why does it all have to be so complicated? It should be simple!