Option to create custom fields for tasks
How it works: In the planner settings, you can create and customize the field and then select which projects it will be available, including the "all projects" option. Each task created now will have the new custom fields avaliable inside the card.
Rubens do Carmo
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Thanks for your feedback!
We’d like to add custom columns to Planner, but don’t have anything planned at this time. We’re working on three big initiatives that are landing later this year (stay tuned!) and will likely start work on recurring tasks soon after.
Please continue to vote as we utilize UserVoice heavily to order our product backlog and will adjust regularly if things change!
Thanks again for your patience and feedback,
The Planner Team
814 comments
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Yosi Gerasi
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we are forced to use a different platform because this feature is a must for us
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JH
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I'm setting planners to manage workflow in the team and require customisation of the fields, the same as in SharePoint List. Timestamp on when the task was moved to another bucket would be handy to run status and productivity reports.
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Projets LBF
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For example, we'd like to get information about task creator. It would be even more important if we made task automaticlay created by emailing a specific email box.
It would allow us to reply task's creator if new comment is written in task -
Becky Ziga
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As an interim, could you follow the same field process as in Sharepoint. For example:
Column name: Open Text or if need be add top 20 choices (e.g. Requested by, Request Area, Task ID, Approved by, etc.)
The type of information in this column is:
Single line of text
Multiple lines of text
Choice (menu to choose from)
Number (1, 1.0, 100)
Currency ($, ¥, €)
Date and Time
Lookup (information already on this site)
Yes/No (check box)
Person or Group
Hyperlink or Picture
Calculated (calculation based on other columns)
Location
Image
External Data
Task Outcome
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Cody Salter
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This is a very important feature that would really enhance the planner app and likely increase adoption across different organizations.
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Rebecca
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Would appreciate an update on this question.
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Marty Stevenson
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Sometimes it would be useful to add more features to the planner, otherwise I sometimes write down the results when playing PlayAmo https://happyfortune.com/playamo/ and would like to be able to re-read my notes more easily.
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Shah
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Need this feature asap as we are so much relying on Planner tasks. Please update the status
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J
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We have to use third party software in order to accommodate this need. We would prefer to remain within the 365 environment. Please consider this!
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Thang Tran
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Can't wait any more. Need other solution :(
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Leon Hughes
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Trying my best to keep my team all under the Microsoft 365 umbrella, but when other tools like Trello, Clickup, etc offer simple pleasures as recurring tasks, saved checklist, and customized fields, as the CEO, I am not winning the argument regarding workforce efficiencies with my managers and teams they lead.
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JO
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Hi, Please provide a status update? It would be a terrible shame to have to move to Jira to get this capability.
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Serguei Kolomeitsev
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Hello, this feature would be really welcome. Do you have an update?
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Roey fux
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Hi
Any update here? -
Degzy
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No response on this ticket since 2019, didn't realize covid would stop all development on mictrosoft services??
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Anonymous
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that's would be great and open to many opportunity to use MS Planeer
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Gabrielle
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Having custom fields would be a game changer and we would be able to use Planner more often and more efficiently.
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Anonymous
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Hey there. We would need add additional fields in order to create some meaningful KPIs. Any updates on this ?
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ozweb-H
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It is not clear to me why this is not a standard feature of more teams features but in particular Tasks. Right now Tasks is usable but not really very feature rich or customisable which it needs to be if it is going to be of any practical use
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Joanne Clifford
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The ability to categorize tasks within a bucket would be a huge advantage. The tags are helpful but limited and not trackable. Features like these and their being incorporated into the filters & charts would make Planner more easily adopted across our organization. Also a nice to have would be a higher level progress view/report across plans within a channel or Team.