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Function to add more Labels

Sometimes the Labels are not enough, for example if you use it to tag different departments or functions

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  • Matt D. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Planner for my team is used to breakdown WBS items for large capital projects where adding detailed tasks into P6 or Mircosoft Project muddies the water and creates a lot of cumbersome noise when monitoring project status.

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
    Labels are used to categorize these individual tasks to their associated WBS items. Our buckets are related to key milestones of the project that we need visibility to and labels allow us to see what areas are still remaining from a reporting standpoint and where our focus needs to be.
    2) How many labels do you need
    Most projects can be categorized into 15-20 WBS items
    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
    Does not really matter. Taking choice out of it simplifies the project managers' duties and they can focus on what is important and selecting colors is not one of them.
    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
    As they are is fine
    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
    The tool is simple, but is powerful when reporting out to team members or steering committees.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work? - filter by topic of workstream (eg project has 3 business objectives I might use those, or multiple apps or processes so a label for each of those, so when Project Sponsor wants to know how we're getting on with achieving business value XYZ or how is the process for ABC coming along I can filter on the catch up call to just those items)
    2) How many labels do you need? - typically 3-6 but on larger collaborative projects minimum 10 to give the level of dissection and filtering we need with multiple supplier projects
    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it? Not so worried about this, but would be useful as if other reporting has certain colour associated to a process then can correspond all the reports together
    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards? The way it is is fine. Alternatively with similar little icons like the assignee names
    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels? being able to add multiple labels is very useful, please keep this

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    not sure if this has been commented before, but the ability to remove labels from the list would be good as well once you have the ability to add to them. I only use three of the labels and have three empty ones clogging up my information and views.

  • Akash commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If we can use Hashtags(#Python #R) in the tasks for technology, project, and then filter/search by a hashtag that would be great.

  • James Cook commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
    - We are using labels to categorise tasks by technology/stream
    2) How many labels do you need?
    - Up to 50 would be much more useful
    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
    - Potentially, yes - 2 of the current colours are very similar. Using multiple colours in a similar palette or of the same shade might help visually identify similar streams/tasks
    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
    - I quite like how they currently appear. It's simple and clear
    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
    - Really just the ability to have more and modify colours

  • Ruslan.Musyakaev commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
    We use it for split work ways, like media, research and etc.. in Teams, but at the same time we use Ms TFS and there we are using tags.

    We use in TFS tags and it can be a lot, like tag Pending and tag 07.07.2020

    2) How many labels do you need?

    About 100

    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
    Best way if we can choose color what we need for each label.

    Also I would to have customize color of the Task if it has late date. It's like in TFS rules to card. For example, if Task on pending then Task card will be yellow.

    If Due Date is gone then Task should be red.

    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
    It's good for this moment.

    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
    Put it in the upper points.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
    Depends on the work but always to group tasks. Groups will depend on Board and Bucket so need to be defined for each

    2) How many labels do you need?
    unlimited; need to customise labels by Board and maybe even by Bucket

    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
    No

    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
    As they do now

    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
    Use them for:
    - Categorizing subjects
    - Categorizing Effort/Time Needed
    - Categorizing as Eisenhower Matrix
    2) How many labels do you need?
    Up to 24 would suffice
    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors?
    Yes, that would be important. Colors/Hues to allow 3 or 4 different types of categorization.
    - Solid Colors (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue) for Eisenhower Matrix
    - Grey Levels for Effort/Time
    - Others for other types of categorization
    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
    They are perfect now (Click and read or click and see color)
    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
    Just make sure we can add it to a plan and use that plan as a template, copying or sharing it

  • Ingrid commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
    we added labels to be used easily during weekly team meetings to create quick work load view - using Group by labels ("done", "this week", "this week, if possible", "next in plan", "in plan", "not planned"). This is enough for now, but for other use cases it's not bad to have more lables. More labels more ideas for the usage :)
    2) How many labels do you need?
    10-15 could be managed.
    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
    yes! customize colors or the order in the 'group by label' view. I would try to select the color related to the meaning it has (warning=red, yellow= attention, green=ok, ....). Now I have to take pink for the first I want to see in the group by label view.
    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
    looks good now.
    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
    see 3) ability to customize the order of the lables shown in the 'group by label' view

  • Richard Combes commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) How do you use labels to organize your work?
    My team support a number of applications, split into functional groups. I use buckets to identify functional groups, and labels to state the actual application.
    I use approximately 5 labels for applications (this should be more, but I can't with only 6 labels), and 1 to identify if I require resource from a different team - not on my planner (this should be more specific about what team, but number of labels makes this difficult).
    Ideally I would also need l spare labels to be able to highlight if there is a an active query, or pause or if the item is being delayed for some other reason.

    2) How many labels do you need?
    I think 10 or 11 labels would be adequate. You did something very similar with colours in Outlook 2003 - 6 colours by default, but added an extra number of them as an option add-in.

    3) Would you like an ability to customize colors? If so, how would you use it?
    I really don't care what colours they are, I just need more labels. So customising would be a very very long way down my wish list.

    4) How would you like labels to appear on task cards?
    As they do now.

    5) Is there anything else would you like to add in regards to labels?
    No. Same functionality, just more of them.

  • Susan Bradley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I need more colors and the option to add text to customize.
    This is already available in Trello ... Need to be able to filter by labels and the text on them (e.g. RISK)

  • Edimarcos Neves commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I recently migrated from Trello to Planner and I would like to have some functions that I am not finding in Planner:

    º More labels, because only 6 is too little;

    º Option to add value to the task, for example this task has a cost of 10 USD, in Trello I have the option to do this through "Power-Ups or Addons";

    º Option to select various tasks and assign to a specific user;

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