Bringing a Plan into Microsoft Teams

I have really strange behavior:

Create a Planner from Teams. Add cards. Hit the button with the square and up-arrow to go to the Planner portal. Add the plan to my favorites. Then when I try and access the Planner from the portal Hub or favorites, I get a blank plan with the same name. There are two "PlanID", the one that came from Teams and a second blank plan that i don't want. Something is not working right.

Is there any way to access a plan both in Teams and Planner? the same Plan?

Thanks,

Rob.

I have really strange behavior. 

Create a Planner from Teams. Add cards. Hit the button with the square and up-arrow to go to the Planner portal. Add the plan to my favorites. Then when I try and access the Planner from the portal Hub or favorites, I get a blank plan with the same name. There are two "PlanID", the one that came from Teams and a second blank plan that i don't want. Something is not working right.

Is there any way to access a plan both in Teams and Planner? the same Plan?

Thanks,

Rob.

Is there any way to bring a plan from within teams to the Planner hub?

I work in a marketing team are have been using Microsoft Teams for a month or so now.

It is a really good tool allowing us to share resources and conversations etc across quite a large number of multiple projects.  Planner is good at managing tasks.  The big downside we see is that plans created for channels in a team are not visible within the Planner hub, so we can't get an overview across all projects.

Before planner we were creating a new group for each project but that was getting unwieldly as we have eight to ten new projects per week.

Teams solved this as we now only add a channel for each project (perfect :)) except for the inability to use the planner hub for complete oversite by project or project group in the planner hub.

Hi Dave Heller!

I'm just planning to start using Planner and Teams in my team of training developers.

This team has lots of interaction during development. Some people on the team are shared resources for all different concurrent projects happening. This makes me look for a tool that will allow a group to collaborate effectively on a number of projects.

Now I see that Teams allows me to create a number of Planners for a single Group. Is this the path I should follow? I just can't seem to get what force within Microsoft has more power and where the product integration will lean towards. 

In current state I can't see all plans in the Planner Hub when they are created in Teams. This makes me somewhat out of control. If this will be added down the road - I'd jump in.

What would be the best future-proof setup for a team with multiple concurrent projects, shared document space, number of chats happening and people playing a role in several projects at a time?

Multiple Groups - one for every project

or

Teams with a single Team and a number of Plans

In either case I believe there is no single pane of glass to see all plans from several Groups or all plans from several Teams plans at the moment. 

Hi Peter Atherton, thanks for the response. Unfortunately i don't get the option in teams to 'Add Microsoft Teams to an existing Office 365 group'. I do with my personal tenant, but with the work tenant, i don't. What's bizzare at work is that for some reason no users have the capability to create a 365 Group in Admin Center. However, we can inadvertantly create a group by creating a new team. The boys in our IT department apparently have global admin but are still unable to create a 365 group in admin center.

*edit: interestingly enough. I tried again adding a planner tab via MS Teams (choosing an existing planner). I did this before but tasks weren't appearing in Planner Hub (which was a bummer). However, this time everything seems synchronised and is appearing in hub! I've tested tasks in Teams and on the planner website, it's all in sync. I'm positive i did nothing different but at least now its working.

Sam Nicolitsi I was confused by the process of merging a team with an O365 Group at first. I replied to your post earlier with details but somehow it was deleted.

To keep it short here is the key. When creating a Team to associate with an O365 Group you must not create a new Team. After selecting Create Team you will see something towards the bottom of the screen that says. 

Add Microsoft Teams to an existing Office O365 group. It does not look like you can click on it but you can. Do NOT enter a new name in the Team Name field. Then any O365 Group that you are the admin for will be listed with radio buttons. If you are not the admin of the group you want to merge it will not work.

Do not put a new Team name in or it will create a Team that is not associated with the group.

Hi, If you want to use an existing plan and have an O365/Outlook group already created then you need to first merge the existing Group with MS Teams. I wrote a document explaining the process. Step 3 is the one that got me at first.  I did have graphics in here but copy and past removed them. Hope this helps.

The following assumes you have an existing Outlook Group that you want to turn into an MS Team. You must also be the Admin of the group.

1. In Teams select Add team from the bottom left corner.
2. Choose Create Team
3. Select Add Microsoft Teams to an existing Office O365 group. It does not look like you can click on it but you can. Do NOT enter a new name in the Team Name field.
4. Choose the Office 365 group you want to add Teams to by clicking on the radio button to the left of it. Then click the Choose Team Button. 
5. Click on the + symbol to the right of the toolbar on your new Teams page. 
6. Click on the Planner Tile. 
7. Choose Use an existing plan. Then click on the dropdown below and then click on the name of your plan which should be the same as your group name
8. Save the plan 
9. Your existing plan will be imported into Teams 
10. You can rename the Plan to something more descriptive if you like.

 Caveats

1. Files will need to be moved from the group site manually
2. OneNote notebooks will need to be merged. You cannot see Teams OneNote files in Groups or vise versa. You can however open a local OneNote client and see both under separate tabs.
3. The calendar should continue to show your meetings that were created in the O365 group. Meetings created in Teams however don't seem to appear if you go to the group calendar.

I'm hoping next cab off the rank is if a 365 Group is created by the Teams app, that we can choose the existing plan.

If you create an MS Team (which creates a 365 group under the covers), i'm unable to add a plan tab and associate with an existing "plan". It creates a new plan that is not visible in the hub.

Hi Dave Heller,

The original plan was created in planner. I actually copied the live tasks into a new plan in teams but something strange happened with that one. See the link below. 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Teams-and-Planner-integration-error/m-p/60235/highlight/true#M3760

Thanks for your help,

Jay