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Planner Limitations
SanthoshB1 These numbers are way out of date. Please ignore.
Brian-SmithWhat is the exact Planner roadmap though, please? When for the last time the product received any strategic updates? We are using it, but it is really lacking. Why are Teams introducing private channels, yet Planner can't have private /per user silos? What we also really miss is, that management tasks are filled-in by assistants, but we would like to get CEO notified. Tha last time I have checked, there is no "Garant" or so field, to fill in other persons watching the task, nor there is any ability to use mentions in comments, which would be sufficient ....
Petr Krenželok there have been continual updates all the time. Private channels are an interesting one - as it isn't just Planner that is missing here. Many of the features of Planner use other technologies in the stack, like the group inbox, or the OneDrive storage - so not an easy task truly making this a feature for Private channels. Some of the more recent updates, export to Excel, copy task and copy plan, the new Priority field. That said there is no intention to build features that would overlap with other options in the work management space.
- Mentions would be really great! We use Planner for deparment tasks, management tasks, yearly bonuses tasks, we don't mind that much, that ppl see other's tasks. We previously used shared Excel with tabs, so it was similar and really works for us.
With the Project - we use it for the complete IT tasks tracking. But web version was lacking, desktop app was sometimes a bit cumbersome, we wanted it to really pretify it. So while we like Gant graph ability to display a baseline, we prefer to do our screenshots in the Timeline view. But - placing and moving stuff around is cumbersome too, as it automatically tries to rearrange tasks.
So we have been really waiting for the project Roadmap, becuase we were looking for some simple means of presentation to the management. What a disappointment Roadam was. We simply gave up on that.
I have seen some news on the new reworked Project, as well as its ability to link to Planner, or something like that. I don't even breath and waiting to give our team a try there. I myself prefer good/nice design, as well as a simplicity. That's wha I also like Planner. Keeping things simple requires a lot of thoughts, and some ppl might not just realise it, how difficult is to keep things in balance 🙂 Thanks Petr Krenželok, that is good feedback and I'd like to see @mentions and a recycle bin make it into the product soon. I'm impressed with the new Teams integration that is coming in the early part of this year - and a new list view for tasks.
And yes, I appreciate Project is another license cost. Have you seen the new Project? That does close the gap a little between Project Online and Planner, and is lower cost than Project Online - and even uses some of the same look and feel as Planner.
Best regards,
Brian.
- O365 dependance upon the rather flat Group concept is the limitation going thru many products. Copy task/plan are nice, but your fear of overlap with other products is really unfounded. Are we talking Project here? You have to licence separately for that and Project is really a different product. Sometimes, just little is needed to help probudt being much more useful. We don't mind user separation that much, but really - we need our CEO to watch replies to the tasks. How are we supposed to do it, if he can't be filled in as a Garant / Watching / call it whatever, or at least allowing to mention him in the comments section? He is not going to fill-in 400 tasks for the whole management team, assistants are. And IIRC, mentions in Planner were planned long time ago. This feature alone would make Planner MUCH more collaboration friendly - you can simply address ppl, which don't necessarily have assigned particular tasks ....