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Unique ID for each Planner task

In order to share or search a specific task please make a unique id available for copy from a task. Directing a user to a task Comment such as with saying "that task I sent you just now" isn't exactly optimal. I'll call it out now that folks will be using Planner as a ticketing system. I do.

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  • Raimund Re commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would really need this as well. If you export to excel, there already is a task number as a hash (28 chars).
    Creat a logic to represent a number instead of a hash and show me on the card.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Not the best solution, but the best I can come up with currently. I have created a Microsoft Flow which is triggered whenever a planner task is created. On task creation it then triggers "Update Task" and updates the Title to the task title with a custom ID appended.

    Expression used to generate a custom {T00000};
    concat('{T',string(int(div(sub(ticks(utcNow()),ticks('2020-01-01')), 60000000))),'}')

    With the number being number of tenths of a minute (6seconds) since 01/01/2020. 60000000 being the conversion from 100 nanoseconds to tenth of a minute. Downside is 2 tickets created within 6 seconds of each other would receive the same ID. the "from" date could be changed to reduce the initial numbers. Not tested what would happen if title character limit is already reached.

    For my needs this seems to work (also assigning the ticket creator to the ticket on creation, could do other things in this step if wanted...)

  • Gregor commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We also need some unique Ticket IDs in our development process e.g. to name git-commits

  • Paul Scadden commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A Unique ID that is human readable / shareable would be required before I could truly consider using Planner to replace our existing task tacking software. I am very new to Planner but I might not be here long without this feature.
    A link with the Unique ID would also be helpful.

    Not helpful (for my needs):
    https://tasks.office.com/globa/en-us/Home/Task/nfft4uM_xkam7xF41ASwDWQBA3L3?Type=TaskLink&Channel=Link&CreatedTime=637098124540680000

    More helpful (for my needs):
    https://tasks.office.com/globa/en-us/Home/Task/CHL-123
    - Where CHL is a Channel identifier
    - Where 123 is the Unique ID for the task in that Plan / Channel, change it if the task is moved to another Plan.

  • anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Does anyone from Microsoft even read these feedback suggestions? There really should be a way to id these tasks, especially when you start getting into hundreds of them in a bucket. You also want an easy way to refer to these tasks in your other systems. I guess it will be another 2 years before someone bumps this again and we will be in 2021 still without this feaure...

  • swapnil commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Well Unique ID is required to track which task has been completed which werent .To log somewhere we need task ID

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