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Single task to be done by multiple users
With Microsoft Planner, we can add multiple people to a single task, but if anyone of them marks it as complete the whole task will be marked as complete. But I would like to assign a task to my ...
Can I suggest you create one task, and use the checklist to assign a tick box for each person?
At a glance you can then see who has put a tick in their box and who has yet to do so. Relies on honesty that you will only check/tick your own box though.
There's also a suggestion that seems similar in UserVoice for Planner, so go and Vote for it: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/18848320-allow-complete-task-per-assigned-person
So there is no way out of the box to do this, but you can do it via a flow. Here is an example if you want to generate separate tasks. You could Put in some kind of Keyword such as Group Task: for a task title, which will be true for a condition checking Starts with = Group Task: then iterate through the Team / Group membership and create tasks for each.
You can plug in relevant info, but just an option. It's obviously not something you could do for all Teams, but if you had a specific need you could do this, and it's fairly straight forward to do.
As a user of the planner application for almost 6 months, your asking for sub-tasks - a task that branches off as a separate record.
Only known of it used in help desk / service desk management solutions. I'm behind the idea for teams and planner integration and if this feature was included it would be a game changer for project management scenarios whereby your deploying modular software in different configurations everytime its difficult to nail down a route for implementations.
I devulge- so back to your question, I'd suggest renaming a bucket and treat that as your group or the plan = the group and you create individual task from there to each user.
Only known of it used in help desk / service desk management solutions. I'm behind the idea for teams and planner integration and if this feature was included it would be a game changer for project management scenarios whereby your deploying modular software in different configurations everytime its difficult to nail down a route for implementations.
I devulge- so back to your question, I'd suggest renaming a bucket and treat that as your group or the plan = the group and you create individual task from there to each user.
- I do not want to create individual tasks for each user. It is a single task(logging work hours in excel) & I would like to track how many of the users have completed the task. I don't want to create subtasks as there is not sub-task, it is just one task to be done by multiple people.
- Your contradicting yourself. First you say you don’t want want a task for each user but then say it’s one task that they all have to do. I’m confused...assuming your then looking for a way to have one task with a way for each person to update and mark their piece complete?
"assuming your then looking for a way to have one task with a way for each person to update and mark their piece complete?"
Yes, that's what I need. I need a way to assign a single task to multiple users and each of them should mark their piece.
