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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 lack of planners.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
- You 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.
- Microsoft folks, any update on making available Planner for Private Channels?
There are so many limitations on Private Channels, that they are often useless. I don't want to create a private Team each time I want to have an activity for a subset of my Team!!! MJKsotech , A pretty good work around to use it in Private Channels is to create the Planner in a standard channel & then remove the tab.
Open the Plan in web client.
Copy the Planner Link
Open the private channel & add the link as a website to the private channel tab.
Works pretty well for our team, worth a try until they add planner to private teams.
JesseIT740 when I tried your workaround (using the website link to add a planner as a tab on a private channel), it showed all of my planners. Is there a way to isolate this to just one plan?
- That looks a nice workaround. How is the privacy maintained if you use this? Can the People in the channel still find the tasks e.g. by searching etcetera.
JesseIT740 still not being a "private" planner and everyone can see using the link address.
MJKsotech Is there any news about availability of MS Planner in a private channel ?
- I wouldn't expect to see a Private plan for Private channels for a long time. If anything they might at least make the Planner tab available to use to add plans outside the channel etc. Similar to the Website tab option sooner than that, but it takes a serious architecture overhaul to make plans private to channels in an existing group. It'll probably end up just being new stand alone plans with a new group, and in that case if you need a private plan, you might as well just create a Private Team from the get go and add plans to that.
ChrisWebbTech When you're in a larger organization they are stingy about creating new teams. So now we have our 30 person grad student cohort in one Team, and we have 7 teams within that with Channels. I WISH we could do a Planner for each individual channel. Would be lovely.
Sonja Van Aelst Hi, still no update on this. We had to use the work around of making planners online then pulling them into teams via the 'Website' function on 'add a tab'
- You 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.- it's insane they don't have this as a feature. any update on if it's in development?
- I don't get it! This should be the easiest thing in the world to implement using roster plans. Why is it taking so long?
- What is the difference between a private channel and public channel that prevents the addition of the planner?
Well, inside a Teams you can create different channels. The contents of normal channels are visible to **everybody** inside that given Teams. You can create however a so-called private channel, where contents are only visible to a defined group of users (the members of that private channels), not for the rest of your Teams. This would be an ideal solution in organisations where the creation of new Teams is limited, and/or where there are lots of smaller-size projects. For a smaller project you might not want/be able to create a new Teams, a private channel would be a great solution, except that you can not use the Planner function (for some reason) within private channels, even though it's a useful planning feature, especially for teamwork.
Hope this clarifies the problem.
ChrisWebbTech Hi, its 2021 - are planners available for private channels yet? If I have 500 people in General Team and create private channel (team) with 10 people - I am not able to quickly select one of the ten people names to filter tasks and see 500 people in my planner who have nothing to do with the work. Any thoughts on how to proceed to take advantage of the planner function for smaller teams in private channels?
- I just ran into this limitation today. Painful to see that it has been discussed for so long without proper functionality implemented in Teams. 😞
- The documentation says that planner isn’t currently supported! There’s no ETA for this out unfortunately but hopefully there will be a solution next year
Adamadam deltingermessage from the future, unfortunately no changes for now 😉
