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@mentions in Microsoft Planner
Introducing @Mentions in Microsoft Planner: A Game-Changer for Task Management At No More Bad Mondays, we're all about making your workday smoother and more productive. Today, we're thrilled to share a solution that addresses a common pain point in Microsoft Planner: the lack of an @mention function in comments. We've developed a solution that enhances your commenting notification capabilities and ensures that your team stays informed and engaged. Here's how our new free download can transform your task management experience. The Challenge Microsoft Planner is an excellent task management tool, but it's been missing a feature that many users have been requesting: the ability to @mention team members within comments. Without this feature, reaching someone to update on a task can be challenging, especially when Planners standard notifications can sometimes be overlooked or in many cases, not actually reach them! The Solution Imagine you've assigned a task to your team and want to follow up with a specific member. You might comment, "How are you getting on with this one David?" but in Planner, this won’t notify David directly. That’s where our new Power Automate solution comes in. With our solution, when you add an @ in a Planner comment, the following happens: Teams Notification: The relevant staff member receives a Microsoft Teams notification with the comment you posted, including the task name and a direct link back to the task. Clean Communication: The @mention is automatically removed from the Teams message, keeping things neat and focused. Personal Touch: The notification is sent from the person who posted the comment, ensuring a personal touch. This solution not only improves comment notifications but also ensures that the right person is always aware when someone has left a comment on a task. How to Get Started Download the Solution: Grab our Power Automate solution for free. Configure: You'll need to update the solution to point to the relevant Plan you want to monitor. It will then work for all tasks within that Plan, old and new. Multi-Plan Use: Feel free to use it across multiple Plans within Microsoft Planner for comprehensive coverage. Share the Love We’re excited to offer this solution free, but we’d appreciate your support. If you find our solution helpful, please share this post or a link to (external link removed by moderator) on your social media and within your organisation. Your support helps us continue to develop and offer more solutions to make your workday better. Thank you for being a part of our community, and happy planning! Download your free @Mentions solutions today and take your Microsoft Planner experience to the next level! (external link removed by moderator)
New planner doesn't show a "schedule" view of tasks assigned to me from different plans
The new version of web-based Planner was enabled for me a few days ago, on November 17th. Apparently, I realized that one of the features I used is missing. At the "My Tasks" view, in the old version of Planner, one could choose to have different views, apart from the grid view. The most useful one for me was the "schedule" view, since I could see in one calendar, all assigned tasks from different plans/teams/projects. This functionality now seems to have been removed, and one can only see one separate schedule per plan.
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.
Moving basic planner to premium planner.
We're testing the new planner premium features and are unable to convert our current plans to show the new features. We have the ability to create a new premium plans but the information on learn doesn't match what we're seeing in app on team and on the web. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/planner/plan-conversion#converting-to-a-premium-plan We've also tried creating a Premium plan and recreating the buckets of the original plan with the aim to move the tasks to the new plan but the new plan does not show on the main list. Are we missing something?Planner premium conversion issue
Hello, I need to convert planner basic to planner premium and I receive the below error: A copy of your plan is now premium Your plan couldn't be converted to premium, so a copy of it was created for you to try out. You can try to convert the plan for your team later.Planner Training
Will there be updated Planner training videos? My organization is new to utilizing MS project management apps (trying to provide this tool so our multiple internal users stay with our protected Share drive). I could use the training and then turn around to support our end users to enhance buy-in and willingness to try something new.
Filtering on labels with AND logic please
Hi, Currently planner is filtering on labels using OR logic, this is a big problem for us. We want to label tasks with labels Software, Hardware, Product_A, Product_B etc. So if I filter and selects labels Software and Product_A, I want to see only the Software tasks for Product_A. But with the built in OR logic I also get the Hardware tasks which is annoying and complicates things. I'm not looking for a workarounds like exporting it to lists, using power automate or grouping on labels. Just a simple tickbox somewhere to use AND logic instead would be very much appreciated.
Retrieving Planner Premium fields in PowerBI and Power Automate
Hi, Has anyone successfully extracted data out of Planner premium in Power BI ? (custom added fields, not the default ones). Also - on Power Automate I cannot view Plans which were created on Planner Premium, the system does not recognize them. What can be done?Metrics
I am trying to develop a way of tracking project and team metrics using the task data in Planner. Does anyone have recommendations for this? Here are a few of the issues: On the task screen, Planner seems to constantly mangle the Effort values making the data continuously suspect. As an example, I have a task that is 16 hours, 50% complete and it says 12.36 complete and 3.64 remaining. There are other issues like this, like having two people on a task, ... The "Charts" option does not provide a lot of functionality or any customization. Also, the data is often messed up, partially related to items like the one above. We are using level 5 and some of the plugins that look like they might work for us do not work with this level.
Microsoft Project Service Core Jan 2026 Update locked Plans table
We recently noted the Microsoft Project Service Core was updated to 1.0.161.1772: This update has locked our Plans table, no changes are allowed to the forms and creating new columns is greyed out: We cannot make use of Planner in our model driven app (Planner Premium, non-default environment). After a new Plan is created, the user receives this message when opening the Plan: Two days ago we were in this version 1.0.160.2874): and everything was working as expected. Any guidance would be much appreciated as we are not sure if this is a permanent lock or once the update cycle is completed we will be able to go back to edit Plan forms and columns. Thank you in advanceTop Level Task Marked as Complete
Recently, one of the users of a large Planner project marked the top level task complete and then it appears they marked it not complete. This appears to have reverted the entire status of every task in the 1000 item project to incomplete with a 0% status. I see this is the history log, their name is on every task's history now. Is there any way to revert this or lock out non-base level tasks from having a "complete" selector?Performance Issues
I'm experiencing significant lag and performance issues using Planner premium in both Edge and Teams. I'm on a brand new i7 PC with 64GB of RAM and 1GB fiber, so I know it's not my hardware... Examples of stalling: When creating tasks in Grid view, after adding a 3rd or 4th task, when I tab off of the Title field it will revert back to the default text, ignoring my input. This breaks my flow state and severely slows me down. When assigning tasks, I'll often have someone selected and hit Enter but the UX is still rendering some random person that isn't included in the permission group, then prompting me to add them. It's soooo slow. Ultimately, I've just procured a premium license, was excited to try the features, thought it would fit my use case, rolled it out to dozens of executives, and now have egg on my face for a horrible user experience. What gives?Planner Plan Backup Resolved
Just wrapped up an excellent nightly backup solution for your Plans! This Power Automate system captures your entire Microsoft Planner Plan, including checklist items, assigned names, dates, labels, and priorities, and generates a dated backup Excel file in SharePoint. Saying goodbye to worries about accidentally deleted tasks or plans . Additionally, I'm nearly finished with a backup import trigger that will generate a new Planner Plan with any of this nightly generated back up files as needed. I'm also exploring the option of incorporating comments into the backup file soon. Certainly know a way to make it happen! This automation is part of a larger course/solution package I'm developing. Other upcoming features include automatic assignment of unique project codes (you can catch a glimpse of it in the title column), auto-assignment of staff based on labels (for instance, if your yellow label is labeled Marketing, it automatically assigns everyone in marketing when used), working comment notifications and more. I'm eager to hear your thoughts on this backup solution, and if enough people want it just @mention me in the comments below. Suggestions also always welcome!
Upcoming Planner release @chat feature
in the upcoming release of Planner features, it mentions that the comments will be replaced with a chat. Do I assume that the chat and @mentions are tied to who is assigned to the Task? ie. if the Task is assigned to Mary, will I be able to type Mary but I won't be able to type John (as John is not assigned the task)? Tasks chats in basic plans will allow team members to collaborate directly on tasks using rich text formatting and @mentions, making it easier to discuss work and notify teammates about what needs attention.
Recent Blogs
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