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MJKsotech
Dec 10, 2019Brass Contributor
Planner for Private Channels
Hello all, Does anyone have any information on when Private Channels will get Planners? Teams is a collaborative tool, but you can't assign tasks to people in private channels due to the lac...
- Dec 11, 2019You can assign people of private channels tasks just fine. Private channel members are members of the Team so you can assign them tasks. The only thing you cannot do is have a "private" plan.
This is going to probably be awhile if at all since they have to rearchitect how Planner works to hide individual plans based on channels.
Anyway, you can use a website tab in a private channel to link straight to another plan if you want a link there, but you can most def. still assign tasks to anyone in the Team. If you need a private plan in general, then you'll have to have a Plan created on it's own, then a website tab linked to it and invite everyone in the channel, but at this point you might as well just create a new private Team for these people in the channel instead.
PwrPlatformEnthusiast
Feb 22, 2022Copper Contributor
Hi Everyone!
I think I've found a great workaround by using SharePoint Online Lists (available in private channels too). https://sharepointviews.com/board-view-in-microsoft-lists-is-available-now/
We can now customise sharepoint online lists to look like a Microsoft Planner Kanban Board.
Essentially we can have all the functionality of Planner but customise and add as many fields as we want & have all the rich text formatting & security features that Planner can't offer at this time. Triggers available with Power Automate might make this an absolute Power House.
I think I've found a great workaround by using SharePoint Online Lists (available in private channels too). https://sharepointviews.com/board-view-in-microsoft-lists-is-available-now/
We can now customise sharepoint online lists to look like a Microsoft Planner Kanban Board.
Essentially we can have all the functionality of Planner but customise and add as many fields as we want & have all the rich text formatting & security features that Planner can't offer at this time. Triggers available with Power Automate might make this an absolute Power House.
- GAFBEJan 31, 2023Copper Contributor
PwrPlatformEnthusiast really good idea. unfortunately, it is not really easy to customize it and have the columns such as assigned person and due date.
I believe we still dont have a full integration on the Private channels.
Looking forward to it !
- LauraStein-MarmonRailNov 23, 2022Copper ContributorBrilliant! I am implementing this on a shared channel right now. Thanks for posting.