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Comments missing in MS Planner Android App
Hello everyone, When opening an individual task in the Android App of Microsoft Planner, I'm no longer able to see the comments history for many of my tasks. It is broken since 5 days. It seems to be a problem limited to the Android app. When opening Microsoft Planner on the web or in the iOS app, I can still see the full comments history as usual. I tried deleting cache and un/reinstalling the Android app on my Galaxy S21FE, but the issue still remains. The strange thing is also that not all tasks are affected. For some tasks, I can still see the full comments history. Also, when posting a new comment on a task in the Android app, I cannot see it after hitting send, but later in the Web/iOS app. I'm wondering if anyone else is facing the same issues? I've created a support ticket in the MS365 Admin Center, but support hasn't gotten back to me yet after 72 hours (it's severity level C).
"Show on card" previews for attachments (pictures) not showing up
Hi Our planner plans across the company now do not show the preview for a picture, excel sheet, or powerpoint when you select "show on card" under the attachments section. It just gives a generic symbol or image of the program (see attached). If the task is viewed on a mobile device, then the preview shows as expected. Is this more global that is needed to be fixed or are others not having this issue. Thanks
Nested Parent/Subtasks in Board View
I recently upgraded to planner and project plan 5 (planner premium), with one of my most anticipated features being subtasks and dependencies. My group usually uses board view to look at our tasks, but if I make a parent/subtask relationship in the grid view, the parent task is not shown in the board view. I know most people use one plan for one specific project, but my tech impaired supervisors need one place to look at all projects, so I need to have everything in one plan to reduce difficulties in navigating planner and finding tasks. I am testing out using portfolios for this reason as well. I am hoping someone else has the same wish and this can become an action item in the future.Tasks by Planner Cards Notes Formatting
Hello, new formatting in the planner card notes section makes copy and paste horrible from excel docs and formats to a dark font in dark mode making text un-readable. I see this is due to a rich text update.. how can we disable this? This makes the notes section nearly unusable! Thank you,Auto mark done for planner task when flagged email has been marked complete
Current Behavior: When an email in Outlook is flagged for follow-up, a corresponding task is created in Planner under the “Flagged Email” section. However, if the user marks the email as Complete in Outlook, the related Planner task remains in the Not Started status. Impact: This creates inefficiency and confusion in task management. Users must manually mark the Planner task as completed even though the email was already marked complete, resulting in duplicate effort. Proposed Solution: Automatically update the Planner task status to Completed when the associated flagged email in Outlook is marked as complete.
Planner Notifications Showing as Sent by Me
Our employees are receiving Planner notifications that appear to come directly from me, the CIO, even though I did not initiate or assign those tasks. This creates confusion, as staff believe I am personally assigning work or flagging overdue items. Questions: Is there a way to revert to the previous “email address removed for privacy reasons” sender behavior? If not, can this be logged as a design limitation for consideration (e.g., toggle or admin control)? What best practices are recommended to prevent confusion in the meantime? This behavior feels misleading and disruptive, so I want to ensure it’s documented as a design concern rather than treated as a support closure. The workaround I was given by Microsoft support was to pay for another E3 license for each of our supervisors/managers so that they can monitor that the emails are initiated by them. Our company cannot afford these licenses--we support intellectually challenged and disabled children and adults and we know that our federal funds have ended and the federal government does not believe in supporting our clients. Thank you for any advice.Planner Tasks Blocking My Outlook Calendar - How to Change to “Free”?
I’ve synced my Microsoft Planner tasks with my Outlook calendar, but now they’re showing as “Busy” and blocking my availability. Is there an easy way to change these events to “Free” so they don’t interfere with my work calendar? Thanks!Option for %complete of a task to change based on items completed in a checklist
Hi, I want the %complete of a task to change based on items completed in a checklist. Currently it uses a combination of hours and the start/end date, but I would like the %complete to also reflect the number of items that are completed in a checklist. For example, if a checklist of 8 items has 2 items done, the percent complete would be 25%. Is this possible? Or could this feature be added. I know there is a work around to use power automate, however, I encountered issues with pulling planner premium tasks into power automate. ThanksSubtasks - What level is needed?
My company is looking into utilizing our Planner so that multiple people have access to the same plan, but for the team to create subtasks we have to purchase premium plans. What level (1, 3 or 5) is needed to create a subtask? The breakdown found https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/planner/microsoft-planner-plans-and-pricing does not specify subtasks.
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. JimMS Planner board doesn't follow my regional date format
The dates at the Board of my MS planner appear in the US format, e.g. the 25th of July appears as 07/25. This is very confusing in the european environment. I have tried to changed that. I went to https://myaccount.microsoft.com/settingsandprivacy/language and I set the regional date format to 25/07. Unfortunately the board still shows the dates in the US format. Any idea how to fix that?
Conversations in new planner - did anyone get it to work?
Hi In the new planner premium version, have anyone got the conversation field to work within a task ? The link you find there now links to MS forum "Use the Project or Roadmap app in Teams" but is is for the old ms projects and to "add this plan to a channel" is now working at all. The old planner, not premium, had the conversation field working fine...Planner Premium <% complete> calculation is strange
Hi, I encountered a strange behavior of the <% complete> field in the premium planner when you change the <duration> and/or <effort> fields after you started a task, e.g. Set <start date>=today, <duration>=20 days, <effort>=40hours, <% complete>=50% Then change <duration> and <effort> to accommodate for unexpected delay/scope extension Doing this, you will end up with a completely broken <% complete> value as shown in the image below. It seems that the <duration> field is somehow integrated in the calculation of <% complete>, which I feel is odd. Happy to get some feedback LasseThe Plan is missing or deleted
We are seeing an error on newly created groups when folks try to access the associated Planner board. Scenario, a group is created from Outlook. User goes to Planner, All Plans and sees the new Group/Plan. When they click on the Plan they get the following error message. Is this a bug? Are others experiencing this? We also are seeing this error for groups provisioned through the graph.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.Turning off Planner Notifications for everyone when a new Planner is created
Hello, It seems that I accidently notified everyone in my Team when I create a premium Planner. How can I turn this off so I only notify users when a task is assigned to them. I see the ability to turn off notifications in Settings> Planner Notification "Email me when someone adds me to a Premium plan or Portfolio" but I want to do this for everyone in my "Team" I don't want to spam everyone when a new Planner is created. Does anyone know where I can do this?
How to best use Planner to keep our department organized
Hi, If there is already a discussion that outlines this, please feel free to point me to it. (No need to re-create the wheel!) We need to get our department organized and would like to use Planner to do it. We have four "functional groups" that each have projects they're working on that the other functional groups do not need to see. But, there are some cross-functional project that all groups DO need to see and be part of. I have two concerns I would like to avoid, if possible: Project/Plan overwhelm, and Silos I'm curious how other multi-functional groups set up Planner to keep things orderly. (Note: We do not use Microsoft Teams all that much and are simply thinking of using the Planner web application if/when we get it set up properly) One final thought...are there Microsoft Planner consultants out there who could help? I've tried talking to AI about our needs in order to get a recommendation but don't have a lot of confidence it's giving me the right plan of action. It feels like there are heavy users of Planner who could give me a much more solid recommendation if they had a clear picture of what we're trying to do. Thanks!
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