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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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Christian Paulsson shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
Completed  ·  AdminPlanner Team (Product Manager, Planner) responded  · 

You can now choose up to 25 colored labels per task in Planner and Planner tasks in Tasks in Teams. More labels allows for greater flexibility when organizing tasks. Use labels to flag risks, signal delays, help fine tune task prioritization, clarify accountabilities, or categorize tasks around a theme spanning multiple buckets. Anything you can think of that requires color-coding and tagging tasks, labels can help.

More labels has been a top customer ask and we’re happy to make it available now to all organizations. Try it out in the mobile and web/desktop versions of Planner and Tasks in Teams.

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  • Katie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any updates on when the increase to 25 labels will be in effect? Looking through this thread, I see requests going back as far as 2016. Surely it doesn't take 5 years to make this change.

  • Ryan Spooner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You should be able to create as many labels as are required, these could be managed from within settings. Defining a colour, a name and maybe even an icon. Having only 6 categories available for tasks, which in reality is what these labels are, is entirely inadequate.

  • Danny Major commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi - please could you provide a timeline on this feature. Custom labels or the ability to add new labels would be important to making this a viable tool for workload management and reporting.

  • Brad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Once you add more labels, it would also be great if you have the option of ordering them yourself. It seems to only allow alphabetical sorting at the moment.

  • Matt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So it looks like the label selection option was updated to allow for more than 6 labels, having a search feature and the ability to see multiple labels easily on the cards, but if I type a label name that doesn't exist, there is still no option to add it. It would appear that the layout is all ready for this option - any update on when we'll see it go live? As for customizing colors, yes, the Microsoft color picker with the same Office suite color themes would be great. I have clients with different color branding and would use the labels in their primary brand color to organize.

  • Mike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Original post 4 years ago?? And still no ability to add more labels? Interesting...

  • El Duderino commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Haha, this is so Microsoft... Try hard, fail fast. I am confused how MS continously fails to copy and implement great features from others fand falls short. Hilarious.

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