Need full capabilities of Planner in Teams

Right now you can add a new tab for Planner in Teams. However, you are not afforded all the capabilities of Planner in this tab. Its really "Planner Lite." Here are some items you cannot do with Planner in Teams:

1) If you create a Planner in Teams, it will not be shown in Planner itself!
2) you can go to the group (in web outlook) wich is automatically created for the team and click there on planner and it will take you to the planner for the new group, which then cannot be displayed at teams, but the team was the purpose for the group in the first place?!
3) You cannot import a previous Planner into teams; you must recreate manually
4) Planner tasks do not sync from Planner to Teams
5) You can't get reminders for your Planner tasks in Teams
6) You can't choose different views (charts, etc.) of Planners when in Teams
7) You can't group by Progress of Planner items when in Teams
8) No view of Planner Hub

Please integrate Planner in Teams better and integrate Teams in Planner better!!

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Alexander shared this idea · Nov 2, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

partially done ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Oct 17, 2018

Hi there, just letting you know what we are still working on request #5 which is the ability to get reminders for your Planner tasks in Teams.

Everything else on this list is done, but if you have other Planner asks that you’d like to see address, please comment below with the URL for that feature requests (then I can merge all these UserVoice requests to this one master request). Then I’ll update the body of this request with all of the new feature requests related to Planner.

Thanks,
Suphatra

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partially done ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Sep 7, 2018

The remaining item #5 is still actively being worked on. No status change there.

As for the bonus #9, it is completed!
We now support Guest Access for the Planner Tab, including support for guests to comment on Tasks!

-Warren

partially done ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Aug 6, 2018

The remaining item #5 is still actively being worked on. I’ll keep you posted as I hear more.

As a bonus #9, we also expect to roll out Guest Access Support very soon.

I hope to have new info to share soon.
-Warren

partially done ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Apr 24, 2018

The Planner team has updated the Planner tab to include the Schedule and Charts views. Drag and drop tasks to schedule them and check status with the charts view, all within the Planner tab.

The completed items are now 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8.

The remaining item #5 is still actively being worked on, and we hope to have an update for you soon.

As a bonus #9, we also expect to roll out Guest Access Support very soon.

I’ll keep you posted as more things develop!
-Warren

partially done ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Mar 13, 2018

We recently updated the Planner tab to now support grouping cards by Progress, Assignment, Due Date, and Labels like you find in the Planner web app. (#7 on the list) We also added the ability to quickly filter down cards to what’s most relevant for you and your team.

The completed items are now 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8.

The remaining items (5 & 6) are still actively being worked upon and we hope to have some more update for you soon!

-Warren

partially done ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Feb 26, 2018

I wanted to make a correction to the last status update. This item is actually partially done.

Items which are completed are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8 from the requested list. (Here is a link to the support article that describes using Planner within Teams – https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868381)

The remaining items are still actively being worked upon and we hope to have some more update for you soon!

Thanks!
-Warren

planned ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Feb 12, 2018

No new updates a this time.
This has not been forgotten, but other items have taken priority for the moment. I’ll try to provide a more detailed status if possible, soon.

-Warren

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Anonymous commented · October 25, 2018 8:09 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Suphatra, when creating a new Team, please could you make the process of "activating" OneNote and Planner less convoluted. Currently, you have to go into SharePoint and click on Notebook to activate OneNote[by the way, why two different names for the same thing?], then add it as a tab to the Team. For Planner it's different again, you have to open Planner in O365, go to All, find the Planner with the same name as your Team, open it up, wait a few minutes while it does its thing (in my case anyway), then return to the Team, do the + process to add it as a tab. There must be a neater way of hooking these tools together. Since they are nearly automatically there, how about just adding them as default tabs, like Files [which are called called Files in Teams but Documents in SharePoint sites - again, why the two different names?]. Thanks!
HD commented · October 24, 2018 4:04 PM · Flag as inappropriate

this is the #1 for us: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33575350-allow-direct-file-attachment-to-planner-tasks-in-t

thanks!
Tiago Freire commented · October 19, 2018 11:36 AM · Flag as inappropriate

While you are at it, Changing tasks to other buckets as both triggers and actions using Microsoft Flow is welcome (currently they do not exist).

Implementing Flow actions and triggers related to this new functionality where applicable would be nice as well.
Mike Hofer commented · October 19, 2018 5:39 AM · Flag as inappropriate

In a task, I can't seem to create a link to a file that I uploaded to a folder within my team.

For example, if my team is named "Foo", and the Files tab as a folder named "Bar", there doesn't seem to be a way to create a link to the file "Baz.txt" in the "Bar" folder. Instead, Planner directs me to a root-level folder in Sharepoint that has nothing whatsoever to do with my team.

Further, if I paste a copied link to the file in the dialog, Planner tells me that the URL is invalid, and I can't save it.

This functionality *should* be there, and its absence is extraordinarily frustrating. Please fix it.
[Deleted User] commented · October 18, 2018 1:52 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It could be nice, if you can park your project somehow, instead of having to create a new bucket and moving it there.
Alexander A. commented · October 18, 2018 1:24 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you Suphatra for you update! Here are my top Teams-Planner requests:

== Planner: Allow chats on tasks in planner ==
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19283074-planner-allow-chats-on-tasks-in-planner

== Create Planner item from Thread ==
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16953154-create-planner-item-from-thread

== Integrate Planner tasks in global search ==
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19285114-integrate-planner-tasks-in-global-search

== Tag Teammates in Planner Cards & Push Notifications ==
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/20401417-tag-teammates-in-planner-cards-push-notification
Jimmy Sjölund commented · October 18, 2018 12:29 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Well, as MS just killed the idea of Teams for Linux we no longer have any use of these features either ...
Anonymous commented · October 18, 2018 12:14 AM · Flag as inappropriate

And it will be great to have the possibility to add a file in a task directly in Teams
Tilman commented · October 17, 2018 11:36 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Great to read how fervently you have been working on the topics.

In addition I'd really like to add better support of languages and date formats. When in Germany I want to run in English (working globally), however seeing dates in (DD.MM.YYYY).
Bernd Holzwarth commented · October 17, 2018 11:33 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi there,
how about "priorities". Because ervery organisation or person has it's own priority classifications, it would be nice to be able to edit the classes: "hight", "middle", "low" or may be "A", "B", "C" and "D", or any other. So the user should be able to Change the "wording" of the class as well as the amount of classes.

thx so far!
Ahmed Salam commented · October 17, 2018 8:25 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Need to add the following features to Planner:
1. Once project is completes it should be able to mark it as completed or achieved. Now list of all Planner groups / Outlook groups keeps on growing ..endlessly...
2. For Task need to be able to add sub-tasks
3. For tasks need to be able to Responsible person and Followers....Not multiple responsible person....
4. When commented on the task need to be able to choose to whom the comment need to be notified.
5. Need to be able to take performance report by task wise, assigned user wise for completed tasks, for ongoing tasks and for late tasks too
Anonymous commented · October 17, 2018 7:10 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Here is a list of Planner-related features I would like to see in Teams:
- Visible shortcut (not hidden under ellipses) to Planner app in left navigation bar
- Direct link from task in Planner app to associated bucket in Teams channel (currently only a direct link to Planner online at the bottom of the task page)
- Include Planner tasks and content in results of Teams search (top search bar)
- Include video tutorials in Help section of Planner app in Teams
Tanti commented · October 17, 2018 6:26 PM · Flag as inappropriate

hi, I am not sure whether this has been included, the planner should have the basic project management capability - Main Project - able to break it into sub projects, Assignment/Group of assignees are designates, tracking the activity timeline related to the project/task with notification of due date etc. Most of the features are there, just would like it to have seamless and integrated with calendar and such.
Thank you.
Jay commented · October 17, 2018 5:26 PM · Flag as inappropriate

1) Ability to make planner public or cross-team visible at the least
2) link files already uploaded in Teams to the to do list as attachments
3) integrate planner into the chat window better, so you can create or convert a chat into a task on planner, like Glip does so so so well
Anonymous commented · October 17, 2018 4:51 PM · Flag as inappropriate

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/20401417-tag-teammates-in-planner-cards-push-notification
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33575320-provide-ability-to-create-conversation-around-plan
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33176365-planner-view-at-team-level-not-just-a-planner-pe
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/31115680-add-existing-planner-in-different-teams-and-any-ch
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19605508-fix-planner-teams-interface
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18866992-move-planner-tasks-to-another-team
Daniel commented · October 17, 2018 2:50 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Suphatra, need a capability to hide a Column once all the tasks in that deposit have been donde.
Andre commented · October 17, 2018 2:48 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Please enable attach file to the tasks, it is quite time consuming to upload something to files, than grab the link and than attach a link to a task every time I have a deliverable related to a task.

Additionally, it would be great if the Files from a certain channel with a planner integrated to it, would automatically organize my task attachments in one folder related to the Planner.
Barry commented · October 17, 2018 2:28 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I would like to see a toolbar in OneNote (Web version), that creates a Planner Task with appropriate options, project, etc for the board, with a link to the Note placed in the comments on the task. This would provide a very nice workflow between Teams and Planner
Joel commented · October 17, 2018 1:55 PM · Flag as inappropriate

GHANT CHART!
Daniel Naylis commented · October 17, 2018 1:47 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Please make it possible to tag someone in the comments of a planner task.