Our current options for notifications are as follows:
- When you are assigned a task (by someone else)
- When your task is late, due today, or due in the next 7 days.
- If you follow a channel attached to a Planner (and you receive ALL notifications from this channel.)
- If you have previously commented on a Task and someone replies or posts another comment.
Why do we not automatically receive updates from Tasks we are assigned?
Example: There are 5 team members working on a new policy document. There are 7 things on the checklist. When User 1 modifies the document and added 2 clause that are on the checklist his actions may include the following inside of Teams.
A) He could check off those 2 items.
B) He could leave a comment for his team to checkout certain page numbers to see his updates.
C) Both of the above.
In the current setup, none of these actions will alert the rest of the team.
If task comments, checklist updates, deadlines, and priorities are updated these actions should trigger notifications ONLY to those users assigned to this task. This would reduce redundancy in communication within a group and greatly enhance the transparency benefits of the Planner application.