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How to manage recurring tasks in Planner?
bmercer I check on the status of this nearly every day. Thanks for the humorous comment. I am starting to think they have an automated update of this item as well. I am fully expecting on 1/31 that it will be updated to a March or April 2022 due date.
chrisarmstrong Hi, what's the link to check the status for recurring tasks? It's something we have been desperately waiting for, and I'm contemplating if we should just build it via Power Automate, instead of waiting for this feature to be implemented by Microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=82028
Now says August 2022. This is greatly needed to manage recurring tasks within our multiple teams.
MACRamsey Now it says September 2022
rameshsingh The link is posted below. It currently states that it will release this month, March 2022. 🤞
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=82028
- It's been delayed since last year. I wouldn't be surprised if it was pushed back again.
It can be done with Power Automate, but it's clunky to set up, and has a crippling limitation for long-term tasks. The task must occur more often than once every 90 days or so or else it will automatically be stopped. This makes it useless for things like annual renewal reminders, for example.
This can be worked around by using more complex date evaluation logic, but that defeats the entire purpose, because it must be done for each task.
And of course, Microsoft could decide to discontinue the product at any time, so there's that.
