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
shared this idea
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
394 comments
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Anonymous
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Yes we need the ability to add more labels for categorization and organization. Our project tasks fall into more than 6 categories.
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Anonymous
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question 4 - label and how they appear
To me it would be more easy to have the labelled task be with a top thin line of the label colour rather than it is now
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Daniel Lopez
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
A/. We use labesl as a way to filter tasks. For example, we have labels for task risk (low, medium, high); we then filter these tasks and talk about them as a team in order to remove any roadblocks. We also use labels for for custom reporting purposes which might covered by default filers, e.g. tasks that related to a specific mission accross multiple projects or assignees.
2) How many labels do you need?
A/. 15 will be great, however, ideally I would love to have the ability to create as many as you can fit in the task creation window.
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
A/. It's not defining requirement but it does help us view at a high level which items (based on risk mentioned above) need to be address or look at first.
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
A/. It could be as it looks today, or simply show them as "Tags" just like they would show up in any tagged Azure resource.
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
A/. Recycling labels is important, that being said, it is important to be able to add/remove/edit them. -
Marlyne Miralles
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1) = label per marketing activity / channel and departments with whom I work
2) =need 10-12 labels
3) =Yes to customise colours . Per marketing activity / channel and departments with whom I work
4) = labels to appear on the title of the task cards (top of the card)
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Anonymous
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What would also be great is to have a field that we can match in Flow. We use flows to send the Planner data to a Sharepoint list that can then be connected to a PowerBI dashboards but for some reason the label field cannot be mapped to the Sharepoint list
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Anonymous
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1) Project Management (RAID items and other things)
2) Configurable through settings
3) Yes, to customise according to my needs, ensure consistency across multiple planners
4) How they are now is fine
5) No -
Cole
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In addition to what has been said, can the labels be more prominent? The tiny little flags on the side are very hard to see. When I am communicating status of a part of project (ie. On Time, At Risk, Late, etc) I want those to be much easier to see so the team can see the trouble areas easier.
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David Faulkner
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We would like to learn more about how you utilize labels, specifically:
1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
I would assign colors/labels to workstreams2) How many labels do you need?
123) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it? Yes, In addition to workstream labels, I would like to have Red, Green & Yellow to assign status flags to a card
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards? Color flag with text inside
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
No -
John Greaves
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
Tagging tasks to key team goals. It would also be helpful to show some tasks as high priority (could be a label) and status of task - on track, few issues, need support (or you could make the status field more flexible) and finally it would be nice to categorise tasks as "quick wins", "small project", "large project" - that would help with resourcing (again could be a new field)
2) How many labels do you need?
Why limit it? I would suggest 20 would suit most people's needs
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Yes although a standard colour pallete is sufficient
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
A few options might be nice. Current minimalist bit on side is fine but changing the background colour of the task might be easier to scan where you are prioritising
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
This functionality is critical for using Planner for more than just a simple task manager -
Greg Rapier
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
We use labels to visually organize tasks by sales territory.
2) How many labels do you need?
Currently require 9 labels but would like the ability to add more as we grow our company and sales organization.
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Yes please, to align with our current colour coding system for hard copy files.
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
Yes please
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
Adding this capability would truly make Planner a valuable tool for us. -
KVIS
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
- To track progress
- To track well-being of team members
2) How many labels do you need?
- no limit
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
- Yes. To get more variety and more categorization
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
- Like in Trello. I am missing the bigger label, making it easier to see, and also being able to see the text.
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels
Fixing it would make me very happy :) -
Tobias
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We'd like to use labels to dfferentiate tasks by department, so less than 100 with customizable colors would be sufficient. For chosing the color, an option to supply the color by RGB or Hex value would be perfect in order to make use the corporate design colors.
We already use the order of the tasks within a bucket as priority list, however, when resorting by label, tasks are automatically arranged alphabetically and does not preserve the manual bucket sorting
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Sub
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infinite lables with infinite colours, patterns, and text labelling in all mannor of fonts and sizes and re-ordering please
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Anonymous
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to be able to review tasks by different viewpoints or filters - eg ones that are urgent, ones that have dependencies with other workstreams, ones that may have savings or benefits attached to them, ones that are high risk or low risk, show by department or
customising colours not important, and how they appear now is fine.
20 labels would be great. -
Robert Barker
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Show the labels in Schedule view.
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Anonymous
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Ability to remove default labels.
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Maia
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(1) I use labels to delineate the department/team or urgency/priority of a task.
(2) I'd like to have a seperate way of noting urgency or priority of tasks so labels could be used to identify the dept/teams.
(3) I would like the ability to customize colors to match other existing coloring systems (i.e. Outlook Categories and notations used in Excel) for teams & departments.
(4) It would be helpful if the label markers were a bit larger along the side of tasks.
(5) Allow creation of more labels, maybe up to 10 -
Neyhit Jindal
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5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
The ability to expand the label on the card itself. Now, if we want to see which label color stands for what, we have to open the card. So, by adding this feature, it will be easier for the team to quickly look at the labels and open up the appropriate card -
Erica D'Eramo
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work? - designating function ownership, topic/workstream, priority, whether it's blocked, etc...
2) How many labels do you need? - there should not be a limit. they are essentially replicating tags.
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it? - nice to have, but it would mainly be to quickly identify certain tasks visually - something easily done with filters.
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards? - Listed out in an area of the card just like tags would.
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels? Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) allows infinite tags that can be filtered on. This team can look to that team for how to create something useful. Right now 6 tags means we can't actually use Planner as a day-to-day project management app. -
Bernd Großhans
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
-> That depends on the scenario, generally for flexible categorization of tasks.
2) How many labels do you need?
-> Mostly 15 - 20 should be sufficient, but having no artificial limit would be ideal.
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
-> That would be great.
-> Usage: sometimes certain labels are (mentally) assigned to colors (like for priorities).
-> Usage: different labels that belong together can be grouped by similar colors.
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
-> The current implementation is fine.
-> Option to use labels as swim-lanes (e.g. buckets vertical, labels horizontal) would be great
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
-> No, but thanks for asking. :-)