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
451 comments
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Anonymous
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1) for different topics
2) 10 would be a very good beginning
3) nice feature but more important: the number of labels
4) no suggestion from me -
Anonymous
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1) status
2) it varies, but depending on the project/plan, definitely more than the available 6 colors
3) Yes, customizable colors would be great to match stoplights/team colors/etc.
4) Color the whole card/add the title of the label as a description on the card, or add a legend you can easily refer to -
Bonnie
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We have set up our buckets to represent project phases. When there are multiple stages of a project between phases the labels help us to sort all the tasks associated with a single project that might have multiple active phases. We usually have more than 15 projects that may fall into this scenario.
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Allison
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
We use labels to visually represent different aspects of a task. Some examples > VM Provisioned, On Hold, Customer Facing, Software Bug, Pending Kickoff Meeting, Team Review, With Content, At Technical Review... Labels are quick visual reminders for where a single task stands.
2) How many labels do you need?
At least 15.
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
This would be nice to have so people could correspond colors to internal teams or people. What I would like more than this would be the ability to determine which color appears first > second > third > etc.
4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
I personally would prefer that the labels run along the top of the card and extend slightly lower onto the card surface versus along the side with no overlap as they are now. Since the width of the card seems to be fixed, I assume you would be able to fit around a dozen labels along the top.
5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
The ability to sort, filter, and report on labels.
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Nurun Nahar
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1. I use labels to orginze different projects like in Kanbinze. I also like to use subtask fields.
2. it depends but i would like to have at least 10 different colors.
3. YES PLEASE. I would use colors connected to different projects at first or use a color connected with a group member
4. Yes
5. I would like to add avartar/(s) for every card type. Please have a look att kanbinze card types to get some insperation
https://knowledgebase.kanbanize.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003162129-How-to-use-card-tags- -
Zeljko Savic
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Please implement more labels and also an additional new Tagging function on Task. The user should be able to set multiple tags on a Task by input of free-text for tag. In the search/filter function this tags should be visible for selecting and filtering the taks and multiple selection of tags in the filter function should be possible.
You can find the same implementation of tags on the Microsoft AzureDevOps Plattform on Backlog-Items.
Thank you in Advance!
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NM
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Labels are being pressed into service in a variety of ways. We are at the early stages and so have some flexibility in how we set up our processes. But if you think of labels as tags that will allow us to slice and dice the tasks in a flexible fashion:
1. Need the ability to add labels (a large number).
2. Ability to search (filter) by tags
3. Coloring - if large number of tags are permitted then color becomes unusable. So a way around might be to leave labels the way it is and add 'Tags' as a separate capability.
4. All the tags associated with a task can be in a group at the bottom of the task card. -
C.Rojas
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
Currently i want to adda the KPI that is impacting2) How many labels do you need?
More than 6, maybe a functionality to add as many as you like?3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
It would be nice, but not a must.4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
As they appear rigth now they work fine for me.5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
To have the ability to have as many as the user needs. this will help me in particular to reduce the amount of buckets that i have, because i will be able to group the tasks in a different way, that i think may be more productive.
Other thing that migth help, a finctionality to remove certain label from all tasks, because now if I rename it, i have to eliminate it from all the tasks that has it. -
Anonymous
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Please add the function to add more labels.
1) Our organisation works with the SCRUM-Method and we use the Planner-App for our SCRUM-Board (buckets = Backlog/ ToDo/ Doing/ Done). We subdivide big topics into manageable monthly tasks and then we label these task cards with the responsible team (the project group consists of two small teams) and we would like to use a second label for the topic, so that we can see and filter which task belongs to which topic and team (e.g. topic = sharing information, task card = evaluate proper platform for exchange of information, 1. Label = Team XY, 2. Label = Sharing information).
2) We don't know yet but definitely more than 6.
3) Would be nice but not necessary for us.
4) Maybe colour bars on the top of the task card with the option to fade in the text.
5) It would be great, if the labels from the task card are automatically on the new task card, if the new task card was created by clicking on the arrow in the checklist.Thank you!
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Anonymous
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
We would like to use labels as we use them in GitHub. Our organization is being directed to use Planner, but the inability to add metadata to cards significantly impacts our adoption. I should be able to tag a card with any metadata I want, and then filter cards by that metadata. Like GitHub.2) How many labels do you need?
Why would you restrict this at all? Our GitHub board currently has 75 labels, and I'm still able to add more.3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
Not necessarily. More default colors to support an increased number of labels makes sense, though.4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
Just like they do in GitHub5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
If you add the ability to define as many labels as I want, I'll need to be able to search them when I go to add them to a card -
Anonymous
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Please add more labels. 6 is not enough
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Kirsti
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It would also be great if there was a separate space for #hashtags that you can use for filters
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Anonymous
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More labels AND the ability to add global tags would be great!
1) We use them to categorize a task by dept / strategic focus area.
2) At least 20 labels and unlimited tags would be great
3) Custom colors are not really necessary, but many more default colors would be required to help differentiate between labels
4) Maybe how they do currently, but pop-out on hover? -
Dave Longman
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We currently use labels to differentiate between different types of work. We have one People team and they look after HR, Recruitment, Health & Safety, Travel, and Other work. We use labels for this. We would like to be able to highlight work that we have planned to complete this week and be able to report on a comparison with what work was actually completed. The current labels do not allow this because we have already used them.
I quite like how Trello shows labels as keywords on the card, so something like this or how Azure DevOps displays tags would be cool. I am not so bothered about the colours but that would be a nice to have.
Really I think I'd like to be able to arbitrarily tag cards with any number of keywords either instead of or in addition to the existing labels. I quite like the current labels implementation maybe with 10 labels would be better. If you had a lot more than this the UI wouldn't work well, so perhaps tagging as a separate feature would be better.
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Renate Nessi Schwenninger
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I used also labels in Trello and would like to add extra labels in Planner. Minimum 50 would be good.
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Gavin
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we are migrating Trello to Planner and we used label heavily in Trello. We would like to add extra labels in Planner as we did in Trello.
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Kishore Garakipati
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1) How do you use labels to organize your work? Using for capturing multiple milestones in a project. So we need more labels beyond what we have today.
2) How many labels do you need? It depends on the # of milestones we have in the project. If we can have it open or have max of 100, it would be very helpful.
3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it? Yes, we need ability to assign colors that would make more sense. -
Carlos Roldan
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5) Please include possibility to filter and show charts by labels. Thanks!
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Anonymous
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1) Differently for different plans. By marketing channel for our editorial calendar, by task type for event planning, by team for org planning.
2) 20 would be great. Unlimited would be better
3) Customize colors to align with color coding already used offline. Customize colors to avoid using the same color twice.
4) It's fine the way it is.
5) Please add them -
Anonymous
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1. We Use labels to organize tasks by departments
2. 20 should be plenty ...
3. Customize colours in order to avoid using the same colour for multiple labels.
4. It's ok the way it is
5. Just add them, please.