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Are planner notifications actually being worked on?
We're in same boat. Were ready to upgrade hundreds of people to Premium at our company specifically for Planner until we learned about the Planner Notifications issue. If there was an ETA, then at least we could know how to plan (ie: use Trello for x months / indefinitely? until Planner fixed).
The lack of clarity is quite frustrating and "We're working on it" loses credibility after the 6-12 month mark; especially when there's no mention or hint of it on the Official Office 365 Development Roadmap -- So something's awry, if it's "being worked on", then why does it not show up on this list of items being worked on?
MicrosoftJason Koprowski Deleted
Firstly, thank you both for your engagement in this forum. Your feedback specifically helps drive us to make Planner better by understanding what features are the most important for you. I hope that you will continue to contribute!
Regarding notifications, I don't have a specific ETA, but I can say the team is working hard to update notifications and build other features through the end of the year. In the next four weeks, we will release an updated roadmap with more specificity of what's coming when.
Thank you again for your engagement, and I look forward to delivering on your needs for Planner.
So we are expanding our use of Planner at our firm (about 30 people in my group) in spite of the many glitches, under the expectation that Microsoft will eventually work these things out. In the meantime, the iPlanner add-in has been a convenient work-around: it has a useful calendar invite tool that serves in place of individualized notifications (people get an invite for the due-date, which pops up in their inbox). However, now that we're using it, I've also noticed that notifications aren't as glorious as I anticipated: the nature of granular task assignments means that task details, and due dates, can change pretty frequently, and the stream of notifications (even personalized ones) can be challenging. Training staff to actually check Planner itself on a frequent basis, rather than checking email, appears to be the solution (for us).
Now, being able to copy/paste tasks - THAT would be useful.
- Were in that same boat. Notifications is being turned off on general in Planner (because it is too much), so users instead have to keep manually checking on things. Not terrible per se, but also not modern or convenient at all.
Would be a nice feature to have a setting where each user could individually pick a time/duration to receive a summary Planner email that shows them all of their action items (overdue, due in the next week, etc). Each user could pick when they wanted to receive it weekly for example.Hello,
I know this is not a perfect solution. But note that you can have action done within Microsoft Flow. You can, for example, automatically send e-mail or Skype private message when a Planner task is assign to you.
