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
420 comments
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João
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I would like to have more colour options for the labels. I would definitely used it
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Ian Thomas
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Add full flexibility on labels. 6 is not nearly enough. Look at other tools where it is fully extensible. This SEVERELY limits scale of projects that can be managed effectively.
If I have 25 'epics' is viewing that practical using 'buckets'. NO, it is not.
Look at labels implementation in competitive tools. You are likely to need to depart from tabbed interface for labels... totally worth it.
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Shannon
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Using Planner to track issues, We need more tabs and to be able to add more colors. It is nice to be able to color code by types of issues to see where issues are coming from and what products are causing all the issues
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Anonymous
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we use planner to track issues we find on our machines when we are testing them before shipping them to the customer. so we create buckets that we assign the "Root cause" of the issue into (mechanical assembly, engineering, software, etc). we use labels to flag a more detailed part of the root cause (a certain section or location, a specific team within the root cause bucket). depending on the machine, we could have up to 12 different labels. We could get around this by making a unique bucket for each major and minor "root cause location", but this gets redundant, and makes the plan too cumbersome when assigning the tasks to correct bucket
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Anonym
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Now finding the page at least now I know, that I should not spend more time to find out, how to have more then 6 labels in planner.. We have now also more then 6 "projects" what we are monitoring in planner => so far we were below six => so problem was not existing.. now we exceeded it.. Probably we should have started with another tool, but at this stage this is history.. :-)
Labeling we are mainly using to filter the view => that updates regading one topic/project can be shown/discussed..
Hope to see this function soon.. -
Anonymous
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Just to add to the comments here. We too really need more than 6 labels. Trying to do good integration with Power Bi and task categories and duration by country and with only 6 labels it limits a lot.
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W Arnquist
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The 6 label limit is /the/ reason we are not using Planner for our use-case.
I am the leader of a data governance program. Our program currently includes 7 cross-functional business domains (i.e. data subject areas - member data, claim data, product data, etc.). We have already assigned unique colors to each domain. Each domain consists of a handful of data stewards who have tasks assigned to them, so Planner looked like a great way to allow them to self-report to the larger community what tasks they were working on and when they would be done, while also easily seeing, by their color, what was "on deck".
So to answer your questions:
1) Labels allow us to represent our domains
2) 7 at the moment, but 13 expected in the next year - maybe a couple more as needs arise
3) YES - we already associate colors with domains. This would allow us to align them and avoid major confusion
4) Ideally the whole card would be shaded with the color, with the label text written out someplace on the card (not hidden)
5) NoI get trying to keep things simple, but this is a deal-breaker. Keep it up guys
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Anonymous
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When will this get considered??? I can't imagine it would be that difficult for the talented people at M$FT to replicate the existing 6 Labels already available in Planner and increase the count to 12 or 16.
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Matthew Haigh
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Would be great if Labels became TAGS or KEYWORDS, which you can add to. This would be so much more flexible.... and surely you can do this more quickly... as per other comments this is MANY YEARS OLD
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Jon-Paul Adams
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When are you guys going to implement this? Serioulsy it's been 3.5 YEARS
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Ryan Spooner
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Please look at how Leankit does it. You can create an unlimited number of card labels, define custom card colours and icons for each. Having only 6 categories on a particular board is simply not enough for teams with lots of work on the go and using planner for "agile" working.
For me, being able to add multiple categories, giving them custom names and colours, and for the colour to be more prominently displayed on the card. if not the whole card changing to that colour. This kind of product was born original with post-it notes on a board. The likes of Jira, Leankit and now Planner should try to replicate this functionality.
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Albert H
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I'm calling bull$#!t on "tell us more". This idea was requested 3.5yrs ago. They're not interested in making a viable competitor to Trello. Stick with Trello
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Gordon Araujo
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1) by consultant
2) 12 should work, but having flexibility is best
3) doesn't matter
4) make the square more noticeable -
Luca
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1) by types of issues/tasks
2) infinit (colors could be repetitive), but dependent on the actually needed (if only three required, show only three)
3) if there are enough predefined colors available this would be sufficient
4) as they appear now
Luthers comment summarizes it very well -
CJ9
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A minimum of 12 labels would be nice, as we have many different "topics" for a particular swim lane. Example: "Orders" bucket. Labels for: "Customization", "Migration", "Integration", "Sales Team", "Training", "Testing", etc
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Daniel Fernandez
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Agradeceré poder aumentar las etiquetas o Labels, como tienen los otras aplicaciones como Trello que son muy dinamicos y adaptables
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Luther
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
1a. Create a master Projects bucket, then various contextual buckets (@desk, @fix, @test)
1b. Create a "master task card" for each active project and put it in the Projects bucket.
1c. LABEL it with the project's friendly name, using the same color for all master Project task cards.
1d. Then create 2 or more associated task cards which are the next actions assigned with the parent project's LABEL and they are free to move about the contextual buckets how you see fit. While leaving the associated master project task card in the Projects bucket.
2) How many labels do you need? - A lot
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Yes,
I'd like to be able to use (share) the same color to identify all of the projects while having unique Label names (the project friendly names) for filtering the plan in an over head view of the plan at a glance.
Other label colors would be used to identify project/task/action priority.
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards? - how they currently do.
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels? - duplicate labels by color, with unique names. -
Anonymous
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Allow tagging in the description just like in To_Do.
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Brandon Wagoner
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work? We use them to identify different topics, projects, etc. using the tool across a sizable organization.
2) How many labels do you need? We previously used trello free edition (until corporate policy changed and blocked the service) and it had a max of 10 in the free edition. So at lest 10, but considering this is a paid for product some number > 10 would nice. I'm not sure unlimited is the right answer either.
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it? Yes the ability to customize colors is nice. With many particular tasks having multiple labels only have 6 colors would require repeating colors or spending time developing a label color strategy and I don't think the provides value to a business.
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards? I don't mind it as they appear now. I might suggest making them a little more prominent rather than the tiny square currently being implemented.
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels? The ability to edit and create them from the same context menus as you can apply them. I would also like to be able to apply multiple labels at the same time. Currently you can only select/deselect one label at a time. -
BC
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More labels please. Helps massively with filtering.