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Increase the maximum number of Goals in Microsoft Planner Premium
Hi Microsoft Planner community, In the new Microsoft Planner Premium, it seems that a plan can currently have a maximum of 10 Goals. For our team, this limit is too low. We use Goals to structure our work around multiple sprint objectives, epics, deliverables, and larger initiatives. Since our Planner board supports several workstreams at the same time, 10 Goals is not sufficient for proper planning and reporting. Could Microsoft please explain why the limit is set to 10 Goals? And is there any possibility to increase this limit, for example to 30 Goals per plan? This would make the Goals feature much more useful for teams that manage multiple initiatives, projects, or quarterly deliverables within one Planner Premium plan. Thanks in advance!Links in Tasks assignments emails not working (Named environment)
Hello! We have implemented Project for the web accelerator in a named environment (non-default). In a Plan the Project Manager assigns a task to a member of the O365 Group for that Project (Email notifications do not work if there is no O365 Group associated with the Project beforehand). The assignee receives the email with 4 links: Only the "Open in Teams" works, the rest linking to the Plan or the Task does not have the appid in the named environment so it fails with a correlation error that we cannot investigate further. Is the missing appid in the links a BUG in the Project Service Core managed solution provided by Microsoft (1.0.0.87 / 1.0.166.34262)? Is there a way to get the links working correctly with no errors? Thanks
Is using Planner for tracking OKRs a good idea?
So our team has been trying to use Planner to track OKRs. We set up buckets for each objective and tasks for key results. It kinda works for a small team but now that leadership wants to roll it out company wide, its getting messy. Theres no way to show progress rollups from team-level OKRs to company-level ones, no percentage tracking on key results, and managers cant see a consolidated view across teams. Has anyone found a decent way to make Planner work for OKR tracking at scale?
Project desktop vs Planner + project Plan 3
We are trying to plan our projects using ms Planner Premium (Plan 3). However, I get very confused because of the so many product names, subscription name, soon ending products, etc. my questions are: Which desktop tool of microsoft for project planning is running currently. If it's "Microsoft Project Online Desktop Client MSO" can this be synced with the planner premium (Plan 3)?, if yes how? I have an excel list of a Project plan with the columns below: can i manage my project in planner premium? if yes, are all this custom fields deployed in dataverse, so that I can access them from power bi? i have a project plan in an excel file with this columns. now i want to create this project plan in project plan 3, how to do it? Company Cost Center Name Company Number Account Number Cost Center Number Accounting Project Number Project Number Sub- Project number Project Leader Concept Vendor (provider) Total Cost (in contract currency) Contract Currency Project Initiated/Not Initiated Committed/Not committed Priority January, 2026 February, 2026 March, 2026 April, 2026 May, 2026 June, 2026 July, 2026 August, 2026 September, 2026 October, 2026 November, 2026 December, 2026 Q1/27 Q2/27 Q3/27 Q4/27 2028 2029 2030 What is the best practice project planning approach when i have complex projects that I have to manage, with resources, costs, projects, sub projects, sub sub projects. How do this on desktop and online? And also colaborative? when project managers have to input thier budgets, how can I create a mapping where they can input thier budgets and project related facts. Thank you in advance for you inputs and help F.AImprove refresh fidelity in Planner Portfolios
Planner Portfolio currently appears to refresh new items from connected premium plans, but changes to existing items like renamed summary tasks / roadmap items do not reliably propagate into the portfolio after refresh. This makes Portfolio difficult to use as a trusted roll-up view because the source plan and portfolio view can diverge. The issue is especially problematic during early planning, when workstreams and summary tasks are frequently renamed as the plan matures. Requested improvement: Refresh should update task, summary task and milestone names from the source plan. Portfolio should offer a “full resync” option for a connected plan. Portfolio should show last refresh time and any sync exceptions. Users should be able to rebuild roadmap items from the source plan without removing and re-adding the plan. Current behaviour makes Planner Portfolio feel more like a partial snapshot than a reliable portfolio view.
2026.02.20 - Planner UI update is worse
The UI changes to Planner within the latest Teams desktop app update (version 26032.208.4399.5) has regressed in its functionality and is worse than before. Previously, all of the contents of an item in the Planner were visible at the same time. Now I have to tab between Task Details, Attachments and Checklist, and am unable to view these at once, which has become a critical workflow for me. It is extremely irritating, as I've developed a workflow around how Planner was presented (which was that everything within a task was visible at once), and now it has been compartmentalised. Please unwind this - it is a regressive update and provides less information and requires more interaction to work through the detail of a task.
Cannot see Task Chat for Planner app on iPhone
Hi, I am testing using the Planner app and have added a message in the Task Chat area via the web browser on a PC. I cannot see the message on the Planner app on the iPhone. I cannot see Task Chat anywhere on the iPhone. I can create a new message in the Comments section on the iPhone (in the Planner app), but cannot add comments using the web browser on a PC. The web browser wants me to use Task Chat, but cannot see that on the iPhone. Am I missing something simple here? Thanks Matt
Connecting Planner tasks to employee goals/OKRs - anyone figured this out?
My manager wants us to tie our daily Planner tasks back to our quarterly OKRs but theres no native way to do this. I spent a couple hours trying to set up a Power Automate flow that updates an Excel tracker whenever a Planner task gets completed but it feels hacky. Is there a cleaner way to connect what people are actually doing in Planner to higher level goals?Planner Integration with Loop Tasks
Need some guidance - We are starting to use Planner to keep track of a large number of tasks. Currently planner is setup with: Approx 10 buckets (in kanban view), and a list of tasks below each. We are using this mainly just for tasks, so the Timeline view isn't needed. We want to connect tasks recorded in Teams meetings, and in Loop to our main Planner. Whats the best work around for this? When using Loop, and we create a task and we connect it to Planner, it will create a new Plan and put the tasks under that. To me, this is dysfunctional, because we want all tasks to be under the main Plan in Planner. I like to use the GRID view of the Plan, which enables me to make subtasks under the main tasks, but others prefer to use the kanban view. However you can't see the subtasks that are under the "main task" like in Grid view. There's lots of videos showing how these parts of Teams work together, but in reality, it doesn't really work that well when it scatters tasks created in different parts to different Planners. Any suggestions would be helpful, and thank you in advance for your help. Jim
