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Brian-Smith
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Joined Jun 23, 2016
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Re: Board View Missing for "My Tasks"
Again, I'm sorry for the inconvenience here Matthieu_A and I hope we will keep you using Planner. Hopefully the product group will have learned from this experience and maybe for anything similar in the future we should not rely on the Message Center as the only communication route. Earlier feedback may have enabled us to react differently.Re: Board View Missing for "My Tasks"
By tenant administrator I meant the person who administers your M365 system - the Global Administrator. The message center is also available to anyone who has Global Reader role. For details of the Message Center to Planner sync see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/Connectors/m365messagecenter/ I can understand your concerns at only getting one warning, but with dozens of new messages across all of the M365 products released every day, if we repeated them then this would increase the burden on the Global Administrator. By triaging these changes in Planner, and maybe assigning to other people who 'managed' the different applications this shares the load. The reason it was stopped was that we released a new UI for Planner and had to make decisions about what made it into the initial release. If we'd tried to fit everything in, then we wouldn't have anything to release - even early next year. The choice of which things made the cut we used usage data, and unfortunately it can be that a feature that may not be that heavily used globally, is critical to some customers. Again, my apologies for the inconvenience here.Re: Board View Missing for "My Tasks"
I'm sorry for the inconvenience JoHr but you (or your tenant administrator) were notified 2 months ago that this was going to be the situation. If you had immediately contacted us at that time when the Message Center post went out then maybe we could have responded quicker - but at this time it isn't something we can just make happen "within days" as that is not how software development, testing and deployment works. You e-mail suggests this came as a surprise to you, so I would suggest you work with your tenant administrator to ensure you are kept informed of our messages for the software you are interested in. Planner can be used for that, as it can have a plan sync'd to the message center posts. Best regards, BrianRe: Board View Missing for "My Tasks"
Sorry for the inconvenience here, and the good news is that the Board view should be back early in the new year. We often need to make difficult decisions on which features make it into initial releases and these decisions were also explained in MC887371. Please read the Message Center - or better still have Planner get the MC posts for you. Here is an extract: The following features will not be available at launch but will be available by early 2025: Open plans associated with a Loop task list Board view in the Assigned to me view Add Assigned to me tasks or a plan to an external calendar with an iCalendar link. NOTE: Existing iCalendar links will continue to work. New iCalendar link creation is not supported, and existing iCalendar links cannot be disabled while this feature is not available. Undoing the deletion of a task The post also includes other features that we are not planning to bring back in the new Planner - so please let us know if any of these others are deal breakers for you. Best regards, BrianRe: Need more labels
Hi Michael, I'm not aware of any plans to extend this further right now. What is your use case? I'm sure the engineering team would be interested in how you are using labels that mean you need more than 25. If you haven't already given your feedback here https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/6a817d61-b6d2-ec11-a81b-000d3a03dba2 then you should add it. I did notice there are several items for more labels, but this has the most votes. I'll see if we can get those consolidated. Best regards, Brian.Re: Can't upload files to Microsoft Planner
Hi Max, the documents attached to Planner tasks are stored in the Group SharePoint documents folder. If you navigate to 'Files' - under the ... menu when you have the plan open in Planner web, then this takes you to the document library. Are you able to add the document there? If not it may give you a better error message to show why it failed. You can also get your tenant admin to open a support case if you need more help - that is covered by your subscription. If you can upload the document then you should also be able to select it as a document to attach to the task, once it is in the library. Best regards, BrianRe: Problems with Planner
Hi MP_93, I suspect only those 2 out of the 4 members are following the Group Inbox, which is what holds the comments for Planner. I know it can get confusing with all the different types of notifications and reminders, as well as the activity feed in Teams showing some. Users who have already commented in the thread will also see these in their own inbox. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-planner-notifications-f6a32f83-058d-4f39-988d-8a2e932820ec and if this doesn't appear to describe the behavior you are seeing then get your tenant administrator to open a support case. Best regards, BrianRe: Project for the Web Scheduling Engine Bug
SlinginTaters I'll start by saying the scheduling engine in Project for the web is exactly the same as that used in Project desktop and Project Online, but obviously in Project for the web we don't give you access to all the settings you might change in either of those tools - so understanding why you get the result you get may be the problem here, rather than a bug. Also it would be helpful in any reproduction of an issue to be very clear exactly what you changed, (from what to what) and what you saw at each step - and why you think the final result is incorrect (and what you think would be correct). For example - in your first task I can't follow what steps you actually took. You mentioned that you set each task to 10h effort. So for the first task for your 'EF' step did you change 10 to 6? If so, then setting EC to 4 would have set effort remaining to 2 anyway - so nothing to change at step 3? Or was effort set to 10, effort completed set to 4 and then effort remaining set to 2 (which would have updated Effort to 6. This would leave % complete as 40% in Project for the web, and the exact same steps would give the same results in a fixed work task in Project desktop. % Work complete (a field available in Project desktop but NOT Project for the web) would show 67% (Is this what you were expecting?). If so then 40% isn't out of sync - it is just not calculating what you thought it was. Here is the same task showing in Project desktop. The calculation of %Complete is based on Duration (see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/percent-complete-fields-84ec5068-4a34-497c-97eb-e12b6dc47cc5) and as Fixed Duration is the default scheduling mode for Project for the web this probably isn't confusing unless you change scheduling modes. Also, in Project desktop you are able to set some options that change behaviors - something that is not available in Project for the web - to avoid some of the complexities that sometimes challenge people when using the desktop. I'm happy to explain any of the other calculations if you want to give me the precise steps. Best regards, Brian
