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Will @mentions be finally enabled in Comments field in the new Planner? For years now it has been the most requested feature in uservoice/feedbackportal...It is really hard to use Planner for collaboration without it...
- FACTS. Please just copy Clickup's tagging, communication & notification queue systems please...
- Yes, this is a major gap that the team needs to address ASAP.
Will the Comments field, the same as in Lists and Planner be made available for Project tasks? Conversations in teams are useful but that is a different use case. Timestamped comments would unlock a lot of additional useful collaboration, status updates, etc. Many project managers would love to have a choice of using Conversations, Comments or both in Project.
Hi Roberto_Bojorquez , I have not seen that question answered in the AMA, are you able to comment?
- Will there be the ability to lock a Plan or modify Permissions to View Only or Contribute only? What about a recycle bin or version control for task items?
- No versioning (or at a minimum, Recycle Bin) = not usable for business. There is zero recoverability story here. This is very basic, screening-level, pass-fail stuff: the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) must be reviewed for every new application. No recoverability story means a hard fail on both Integrity and Availability.
- This please for ALL PLANNER users, not just Project/Premium subscribers.
- Are there plans to implement read-only, edit, owner level permissions to plans / projects? Would improve the business use-case drastically.
- Will there be a queue bell for notifications, similar to Clickup or Facebook? So when there are changes, or @ mentions, we can see exactly in what task we were referenced in a comment? We hate that indication only appears in email. Currently, in planner, there is a very-obtuse "you have changes" "you have mention" but with nothing to click on the planner experience on the web. Clickup provides a great template for how to communicate with staff. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE copy their tagging and notifications queue systems
- Agreed. That notification "X changes have been made" is useless to the point of being a distraction. It need to tell us exactly what tasks have changed, who did it, and when.
- When will Teams Conversations on tasks roll through to the preview? Having separate conversations on tasks that have @ functionality and notifications through Teams (instead of email) seems like a must for this update.
- Will this be recorded? April is Spring Break month so I, along with many others, may not be able to attend the actual meeting. Thanks!
- I also hope it will be recorded, the events are at 3.30am for me...
- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
Hi LisaJo48 , yes this event will be recorded and available on-demand as soon as our livestream is over so you can watch when it is convenient for you. If you have any questions for the presenters, you can leave them here in a new comment thread.
- Good question. I have meetings at the same time so I will miss some of this.
- Dear all Looking forward. Could you please share the correct calendar entry for April 3rd? The link above points to a date in July.
- same old microsoft can't get anything right
- Laura_Becker
Microsoft
Hi Thomas!
Thanks so much for your interest. Let me check with EmilyPerina to make sure the calendar settings are working properly.
See you there! Best, Laura
- EmilyPerina
Thank you for your interest in The new Microsoft Planner: Meet the Makers and learn what’s coming next event.
We will be locking this event to new comments, but please head over to the Microsoft Planner AMA to ask questions directly to the Planner experts and get them answered live during the AMA event on Thursday, April 4th at 10:00AM Pacific.
Will the video also be available afterwards? I would like to watch the event but I will not be available
- EmilyPerina
Anna_van_ginkel Yes, the video will be available here on this page on demand as soon as our livestream is over.
OMG - please stop hosting these events on YouTube, X, or otherwise. Many organizations block such sites or control the content so it cannot be viewed. (e.g. Video Unavailable. This video is unavailable with Restricted Mode enabled...)
- Same for me - it's blocked
- A QUESTION ABOUT LICENSING - because it is important to consumers. There appears to be a number of different 'flavours' of Project each with there own licences. (Project on-premise standard, Project on-premise professional, Project Server, Project Online, Project for the Web ...) This is so confusing for the consumer. My org has Project on-premise standard, but this doesn't enable them to use Project for the Web/Planner Premium and this is a major drawback in trying to get adoption of the new Planner. We have been forced to buy Project on-premise standard because we buy M365 A3. Buying the Project for the Web/Planner Premium subscription would add to our costs and this can't be off-set by dropping Project on-premise standard because we are being forced to buy it. Is there a way out of this so our users can take full advantage of New Planner at no extra cost to our org?
