Microsoft Planner – Audit trails for Cards (Activity)
Hi folks, Could we please have an activity feed for each card to log who did what? Having the ability to know who changed the dates, the description, etc., would help increase the transparency and the integrity of the information contained in it. We might want to mimic what is currently done on Trello. For example: Dimitri Pletschette set this card to be due Jun 6 at 11:50 AM a few seconds ago Dimitri Pletschette added this card to To Do 5 minutes ago Feel free to jump into the conversation below. Dimitri https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitripletschette/ | https://dimitripletschette.medium.com/ | https://twitter.com/dimitri_twt | Microsoft | https://dimitripletschette.com/
Better way to view employees' schedules?
Howdy, y'all. I've just been hired into a new office, and as the only member of Gen Z to be employed, I've been summarily appointed to the media committee, which includes thinking through the ways that we communicate with one another effectively. The issue that's driving me up a wall at the moment is our calendar management. We have an Excel sheet saved as a tab within one of our Teams channels that lists every employee's status in the office for every day of the year. This is helpful for a couple of reasons: We work in healthcare and must have one person on-call at all times. There are two on-call shifts per day; one from 8 AM to 8 PM, and one from 8 PM to 8 AM. There must be a minimum number of staff people working during regular weekdays (that is, aside from the on-call staffer, we must also be able to see that there are at least a couple people aside from the on-call person who are in the office during a regular week, so that the office isn't completely empty around Christmas and so on). For this, we usually look at the row for the day of the month and the column for the employee's name, with the intersecting cell being filled in with the time of their shift. In addition to the two on-call shifts per day, one person will be designated as "substitute" for one 24-hour period. If either the AM or PM on-call person call out, the substitute will clock in to replace them. Further, there is a staffer who is designated as the support member for an entire week's time. Should the on-call person have questions or concerns, the support member will be able to answer their call at any time during the week. We typically have it color-coded so we know by taking a glance at the day who is on AM, who is on PM, who is substituting, and who is backup. This is an example: Staff A Staff B Staff C Staff D Staff E Staff F Staff G Friday 8/1 8a-8p 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p 8p-8a 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p Saturday 8/2 OFF 8a-8p 8p-8a OFF OFF OFF OFF Sunday 8/3 8p-8a OFF OFF 8a-8p OFF OFF OFF Monday 8/4 OFF 8p-8a 8a-4:30p OFF 8a-8p 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p Tuesday 8/5 8a-8p OFF OFF 8p-8a 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p Wednesday 8/6 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p 8p-8a OFF 8a-8p 8a-4:30p 8a-4:30p KEY: AM on-call PM on-call Substitute Support Obviously, this way of keeping track of things is archaic and has led to chaos. Is there a better way somewhere in Teams/Outlook/SharePoint calendar, or in some other application that can connect to this workspace? We run basically everything in our department out of Teams
Mention people in the comments of Tasks
How do you mention someone in the comments section of a task? I've seen other queries about this dating back to 2017, and in 2019 Microsoft said they are working on it... so has this been done? Example: My colleague and I have been assigned a task - to upload content onto the website. In the checklist it notes my colleague will write the content, and then I will upload it. I'm trying to tag her in my comment to say, "@ let me know when the copy is ready for me to upload." Is there actually no way to do this?Planner not working in Teams
Hello, I've been using Office365, Teams, Planner for a while now. Been a few days that I'm unable to add a new Planner to a Channel. Every time I try to add Planner to any Standard Channel, it returns the error message "We couldn't save your tab settings. Please try again." Contacted Office Support on Twitter and they redirected me to Tech Community. Please suggest. Thanks, SamTasks by Planner and To Do: How to tag team members on tasks for awareness but not for ownership
Hello all - I'll trying to figure out if it's possible to include team members on individual tasks in planner so that they can be aware of the progressing being made on key tasks rather than assigning them as responsible team members. For instance, in the example attached, I would like for Rohan to be the individual responsible for the task. However, I would like for Dave to receive updates as comments and changes are made to the task so that they can also be aware of progress. Appreciate any insights you may have. Thanks!Tutorial: Create A Microsoft Planner Task When A Microsoft Form Response Is Submitted
This https://youtu.be/SMDavCgg3FM will demonstrate how to create a new planner task every time a new Microsoft Forms response is submitted. The approach outlined in this https://youtu.be/SMDavCgg3FM will leverage a Microsoft Power Automate workflow that takes the details from the Microsoft Form response and passes the information into a newly created planner task. The tutorial will start by demonstrating how to create a basic Microsoft Form and then will demonstrate how to create the workflow. The tutorial will also demonstrate how to conditionally create Microsoft Planner Task in different boards depending on the value selected in a choice type field in the form. For example, if response one is selected at drop down question one, then create a task in board one. If response two is selected at drop down question one, then create a task in board two. I am curious to learn what you might be using this workflow approach for. Please feel free to comment below! And be sure to subscribe to my https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIT-_HqO9Z_KHY8bk8jHVJA?sub_confirmation=1 for more MS Teams, SharePoint, Power Automate tutorials.Planner Error: We couldn't complete your request because your item or storage limit has been exceed
All of a sudden I started received the following error message when trying to create new tasks in a plan that I've created in a Team. The error reads: We couldn't complete your request because your item or storage limit has been exceeded. Technical details I have confirmed I have not run out of OneDrive storage which is something I've seen an a cited cause. Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?Tutorial: Export Planner Tasks To Excel
This https://youtu.be/VXivJSxImbs will demonstrate how to export a Microsoft Planner task list to Excel. This can be done from the Microsoft Planner web app with a few simple clicks. Note there are some limitations when exporting planner tasks to Excel. One notable limitation is that comments on the task will not be included in the export. Check it out https://youtu.be/VXivJSxImbs.
