Assign tasks to multiple users
I need to be able to assign tasks/projects to multiple users.
Christopher Woodward
shared this idea
Thank you for all the feedback. We’ve completed the work to support assigning a task to multiple people, and it is now available for use world wide.
Thanks!
- Planner Team
348 comments
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chris
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all they think it is not ready completed should vote on this one as well
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Frank Doorenbos
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Agree fully with Clint:
Dear Microsoft, this task is not complete to the expectation of Planner users. What is also needed is the ability to assign a single task to be completed by ALL ASSIGNED to the task. For example, I want the members of my leadership team to read a book. Right now if I create that task and one individual completes the task it is complete for all. I need to see each individual complete the task and when all assigned have completed it then the main task is complete. -
Clint Merrell
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Dear Microsoft, this task is not complete to the expectation of Planner users. What is also needed is the ability to assign a single task to be completed by ALL ASSIGNED to the task. For example, I want the members of my leadership team to read a book. Right now if I create that task and one individual completes the task it is complete for all. I need to see each individual complete the task and when all assigned have completed it then the main task is complete.
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Anonymous
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Is it possible to remove the limit on number of users assigned to a task?
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Sam Huntington commented
Needs: 1) Be able to assign to more than 11 ppl. 2) Allow individuals to mark completed when they’ve done their part 3) include an option to assign all members of the group to the task at once, rather than clicking on their names individually (assuming the entire group is no more than 11 at the moment)
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Morten S.
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Please add the option of "star-marking" one of the assigned persons, so you could see e.g. who is main responsible for this task, i.e. the go-to person to get an update; Can be quite confusing to figure out when there are 5 people assigned to the same task. Make it possible to have different star colors, so we can define e.g. that a yellow star is the "business owner" of a task, and a red star is the "project leader"
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thobie
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This feature is not working/integrated with to-do properly - several people assigned to a task, and if one of those clear the ”to-do” list on their part in to-do app - the whole task gets marked completed for all.
Way around have been de-assigning from the task invidually - but thats not possible from the to-do app.
So please microsoft, when implementing new features think through how it should work through the whole app-verse, like Outlook, To-Do, Planner, ...
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Quinne Teske
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Right now, it only allows you to add up to 11 people to a task. This should unlimited. Also, if there was a way to select everyone in the group and mass add them to the task instead of having to select one by one would be a major time saver.
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David
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The way this was implemented doesn't make sense. The common use case is that everyone in a channel or group of users, needs to perform task individually by a due date. Not that 10 or less users are all possibly doing the same single task and they're collectively just supposed to agree it's done at some point, at which point one of them is supposed to figure out to mark it as done. Is there another user voice item to implement this in a way that people are asking for in these comments? If I've got a channel or team of 1000 users, and I need them to complete a survey by a certain date, why can't I just create a task for everyone currently in the team which contains a list of everyone marking it as completed individually? That's what makes sense and what everyone asking for. Maybe this is something available in a different plugin than planner tasks?
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Anonymous
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Pls add more than 11 people!
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Anonymous
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Need to know who is doing the task and who is being informed, also at checklist/subtask level
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Anonymous
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Does it actually assign one task per user? What happens when one person from the multiple people marks the task complete? Will I be able to view if each person has completed the task?
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Anonymous
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Are you able to add functionality for each team member assigned a task to complete individually without completing the whole task? Also keen to add more than 11 people to a task.
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James Ward commented
This needs refinement, we need to be able to define who is ultimately responsible for the task. Something akin to a simple RACI assignment would be suitable.
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Anonymous
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I'd like the order of assignees to be displayed in the order that they are assigned, rather than defaulting to displaying in alphabetical order. On our team, we'll have one person as the project lead (who we'd like to have listed first) and the others as collaborators.
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Anonymous
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Would really like to be able to add more than 11 to a task, this is a big limitation for various efforts that we're using Planner for.
Thanks
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Anonymous
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I can still only assign to a maximum of 11 people, why is this?
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Remmelt de Koning
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can the functionality of 'assign to all' be implemented as well?
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Anonymous
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We have also the need to assign more than 11 people per task. Please increase the number of assignee's to at least 20 and please allow them to mark completion per user rather than closing the whole task. Tasks should not be allowed to be deleted either!
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Mark
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We urgently need more than 11 people. Incredible that this limit is in place!!!!