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 →

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Mar 1, 2019

The last item in the original list, #5, is covered in https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17017147-notification-for-planner-tasks. That one (planner task notifications) is currently in internal testing with a target for release in early Q2.

Because there are many different requests in the comments which makes it hard to update and track status of individual items, we are marking this completed, and will user individual UserVoice items to track any further Planner integration. If you have suggestions in the comments below that don’t have an existing UserVoice item, please feel free to create one.

Thanks all!

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partially done ·

Suphatra 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

partially done ·

Warren 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 ·

Warren 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 ·

Warren 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 ·

Warren 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 ·

Warren 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 ·

Warren 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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Baz commented · February 26, 2019 6:12 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I manage a group of project managers and they have their own team for their projects and I have a separate team for my direct reports. I would like to have oversight of all their major planner actions. They can copy in to my planner their tasks, but the tasks are not synchronised, so any further changes after coping in them is lost. I would like to see an ability to keep tasks synchronised across teams, please.
Orr commented · February 22, 2019 8:37 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Could I add that as part of the Planner "Lite" in teams there is not option to Upload files, the option to upload files is available only in MS- Planner app
Stéphane Rudaz commented · February 12, 2019 8:06 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It will be great to add a file from my computer to a task directly in Microsoft Teams desktop and not only for the online Microsoft Teams.
Auke commented · February 8, 2019 12:53 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I am missing these features:

Planner view on team level. (and even higher to make overview plans with global deadlines)
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33176365-planner-view-at-team-level-not-just-a-planner-pe#comments

conversations and activity in planner (and others) integrated in team/channel
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32874073-activity-feed-for-all-teams-activity

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/34880401-activity-connection-to-planner

Tasks from conversations
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/34152136-start-a-conversation-about-planner-task
Brennan Steenhoek commented · February 5, 2019 4:44 AM · Flag as inappropriate

We would like to see the ability to add files to Planner. You currently can do this through the Planner web page, but in both the web-based version and the desktop version of Teams, you cannot upload specific files to a Planner task, only a link or Sharepoint docuement in the Team folders. Please change this.
Myles commented · February 1, 2019 10:53 AM · Flag as inappropriate

As planner tasks are completed it would be nice if the completion showed up in the conversations tab
Anonymous commented · January 31, 2019 1:07 AM · Flag as inappropriate

please address performance before adding more features
Faye commented · January 29, 2019 7:04 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Being able to add a task & have i re-occurring every 4 weeks etc.

Be able to see by hour on the weekly task list, then be able to rearrange them.
Amanda Gemar commented · January 25, 2019 8:13 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Direct upload of files! Add the option to attach a file like in Planner. right now you can only add a link or SharePoint file which is incredibly annoying!
Clint Broadhead commented · January 25, 2019 2:01 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Integrated Pomodoro timer or stopwatch feature. Keeping track of how long I worked on tasks allows me to intelligently estimate timing on future projects. This will also open opportunities for useful widgets within the 'Chart' view of the planner. e.g. Total time on the project, the task that took the longest, Time spent per assigned, etc.
Anonymous commented · January 23, 2019 6:00 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hurry up
Florian Tobuschat commented · January 23, 2019 12:59 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It should also be possible to add a File to a Task, which is only possible in Planner Browser-Version. In Teams you can only add a link and a SharePoint File. Direct upload of files isn't available in the Planner in Teams.
Gabriel commented · January 18, 2019 8:28 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Creating tasks in Planner from a conversation in Teams also gets my vote - this is a super important feature that would make the integration MUCH more useful!

Also, having Planner tasks' descriptions and comments work like Teams conversations, especially in regard to enabling hyperlinks in the text.
Nathan Wells commented · January 11, 2019 11:45 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Notification in Teams when a task is assigned to you https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17017147-notification-for-planner-tasks
Eugene Beran commented · January 10, 2019 9:02 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Creating tasks in Planner from conversation window in Teams gets my vote!
Lisa Murmann commented · January 4, 2019 6:12 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Perhaps this is a dead thread - but still hoping for better intergration between planner and teams a couple of noteworthy URLS:
# 5 is less important than the actual ability to allow the updates from tasks and easy creation of planner tasks from conversations to happen: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/18715894-planner-conversation-integration-with-teams
Anonymous commented · January 2, 2019 1:24 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I might be a little late to the thread here but is there a way to set up a planner as a template so I can copy buckets of tasks or even the whole planner board to another team.

There are many tasks that we do on every project. Just looking for a way to not have to keep entering it manually every time.
Anonymous commented · December 28, 2018 4:56 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Can we add the ability to create recurring tasks?
Nathan Wells commented · December 21, 2018 10:06 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Also, being able to "tag" a user in a planner task comment and have them be notified would be great!
Nathan Wells commented · December 21, 2018 10:05 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Really need those notifications when a user is assigned a task!