Function to add more Labels
Sometimes the Labels are not enough, for example if you use it to tag different departments or functions
Christian Paulsson
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Thank you for sharing your feedback!
We would like to learn more about how you utilize labels, specifically:
1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
2) How many labels do you need?
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
Cheers,
The Planner Team
530 comments
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Chris Clos
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
Currently we use them to divide teams and types of projects. Then we use the filter function to show what we need to for meetings/etc.
2) How many labels do you need?
Should be significantly higher.. 20+
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Yes - This should just be a normal color picker
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
Yes - just as they do now
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
It is possible we could use a "Tags" function that uses more of a dynamic grouping, but not necessarily need to be the "labels" and accomplish the same thing. In fact, I could see the two complimenting each other well. -
Damien
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
Across BAU, projects, for different teams and countries
2) How many labels do you need?
30
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
yes-Very helpful to spot the right topic from a sight
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
Today's layout seems quite ok
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
It should probably not be possible to add all labels to a given card. Maybe a set of 6 out of the whole set of labels available. -
Dan
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
to filter tasks2) How many labels do you need?
Unlimited3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Yes, -
Anonymous
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
Departments, Teams and Clients
2) How many labels do you need?
Unlimited
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Yes. I want to customize the colors for example "Similar topic = Similar color group"you can just organize the same function for Outlook label/tag.
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Steve Shimkus
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I use colors to distinguish project workstreams or project phases. I would like to be able to add up to 20 labels. Yes, would like to customize colors. And would like the ability for colorblind support, similar to Trello labels.
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Anonymous
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Yes, I was going to use Labels (instead of buckets) to theme/join tasks, so that buckets can be used for Kanban style task pulling
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Mark Devos
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We'd like being able to add labels and assign a color (or icon?) to this label. The color or icon would then, in our case, be used to represent the product, the text in the label, the client that is using the product.
We'd probably assign only a limited number of labels on a single card. Hence, the current representation feels fine.
And yes, we would than like to be able to filter on a label and/or label color=label icon.
Note that color=icon is just a category of a label. Hence, adding label categories would be fine as well -
Alistair
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I have had several clients asking about this - latest has 5 separate products and each has publicity events relevant to it.
It would be good to have, for example:
PRODUCT (Label 1 / Blue) and PRESS RELEASE (Label 7 / Purple) -
Chris
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
Departments, Teams and Clients
2) How many labels do you need?
Unlimited
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Yes...I don't understand the question...I guess to pick other colors???
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
Exactly like they do now
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
Labels is incredibly powerful but also incredibly limited the way it is implemented now. -
Gerardo Cruz-Ortiz
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1) Currently use for tasks that have multiple attributes that are not mutually exclusive (I can't use buckets because one task cannot live in two buckets)
2) As many as possible, look at gitlab's issue board handles this beautifully https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html
3) Yes, use hex like gitlab and github but provide a default color swatch
4) See github and gitlab examples
5) I think that labels should replace buckets, buckets can replace the progress meter so people can make custom workflows.
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Maurizio Di Domenico
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labels and tags seem to function as an alternative to Swimlanes, this would help categorising tasks into Features/Epics etc. At the moment this is extremely limiting to have only 6 labels
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Sunny
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As labels seem to function as an alternative to Swimlanes, this would help categorising tasks into Features/Epics etc. At the moment this is extremely limiting to have only 6 labels
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Anonymous
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Or add tags to allow us to report that way
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Ansel Halliburton
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1. For my globally-distributed team, I would like to tag certain tasks by region (e.g., "Americas", "EMEA", "APAC"). I would also like to tag them by subject matter ("Copyright", "Trademark", "Web", "Social", "Domain", etc.) That would let me filter down to specific combinations of geography and subject matter very quickly -- super useful. But there aren't enough labels now to do this. :(
2. Why limit it at all?
3. Color customization is nice to have, but not that important
4. Don't really care
5. Just more user-created labels! -
Thorsten Salewski
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1) absolutely for departments
2) about 8 to 10
3) not necessary but would be good
4) shown on the cards like it is now
5) yes grouping for labels -
Chad
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We should have unlimited flags in planner. They should work just like categories in Outlook. I manage all my email that way because an email can be part of many different categories of work. It may be about a project, but also focused on and industry etc. I have about 120 categories in Outlook today. I'd like to do the same thing with planner. It is a very flexible way to organize your items.
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Alfredo Gil
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
Categorize our tasks, it could be organizational or type of task
2) How many labels do you need?
10-15
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Not necesary
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
Like it does now
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
Nothing more requiered -
Anonymous
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ad 3) yes, customized colors to be used for personal task groups e.g. Immediate action, waiting for s.b., ...
ad 4) I would like to see the card in the colour of the selected label -
Victoria
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1) Per work stream and we have more than 6. We need to be able to identify per label through reporting also.
2) Why restrict it? Minimum of 15.
3) Not a preference as long as you can continue to edit / text label as they are now
4) No specific change required
5) Reporting per label -
SA
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1) Categorise our tasks into focus areas
2) Should there be a limit? Trello doesn't seem to have a limit - or I have never run into that issue
3) Yes, colors is fine - as long as you can use text to label them too (as it is now)
4) The way they appear now is great, but the way they appear (grow/shrink) in Trello is better
5) Nope