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
shared this idea
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
779 comments
-
Lisa
commented
This is a must have and deal breaker if we don't have it!
-
Anonymous
commented
Agreed. An option to change the colore of the diagramms.
-
Jarrad Harries
commented
Yes, this feature is essential. More than one status per task is also absolutely necessary. With no explicit way to display dependencies, we need to be able to, for example, flag a task as "not started" AND "at risk".
-
Anonymous
commented
First thing I went to do when I created my first plan was to set the status to something that made sense to me and could not.... :(
-
Florian Ludwig
commented
You can create tasks in planner using the API?
Where can I found this API?
Thanks!
-
Anonymous
commented
It should be configurable, to add statuses
-
Tahli Lake
commented
Agreed! Even having the option to label your own statuses, as you can with the coloured tags. For example, we are a learning design team, we would like to be able to label each project as
- to be considered - future project - in scope - in design - in review - awaiting feedback - launch - on hold, etc. This would be much more helpful than not started, in progress or complete. Thanks! -
Alun
commented
Be great to have the ability to add custom attributes (bespoke fields) to planner. Ideally this would be in pre defined global custom fields (i.e. Custom1, Custom2 etc) so that eventually we could export across all plans (down to user to ensure consistent across their plans! Or pick from globally defined list).
-
Alon Ekelund
commented
We made an integration from iGlobe CRM Office 365 to the Planner. The app is a SharePoint online app. This means we can create a task from iGlobe CRM in the Planner. This is great. However I want to be able to see the task on the company or contact in iGlobe CRM. For that I need to add the company or contact ID to a custom filed on the task. From iGlobe CRM I will be able to look for the contact ID among the tasks and display then on the contact.
-
Victor
commented
Validated !
-
Anonymous
commented
I have been using Liquid Planner for several years (on my own), but now my office is adopting Planner as a replacement solution. I am seeing a BIG difference - and not a good one. The ability to do multiple statuses is crucial to organization. I currently am tracking more than 100 small projects (tasks) in LP, where I use subfolders to both arrange and prioritize by status. I have Active, In Process, Handed Off, Planned - Hold, Pending, Upcoming Month, Client Hold, etc. and they are invaluable. Come on, Microsoft, make this tool USEFUL. Being able to categorize tasks by type of activity would also help with organization.
-
Henry Staples
commented
Agree; we have been using an SP task list template that was customized with several additional fields for sifting/sorting/reporting purposes. It would be nice to be able to define the task fields for a particular plan. (e.g. Size/LOE, Component, etc.) It also would be nice to revise the Status choices. I have looked at using the colored labels and even overriding the checklists, but it's not as functional as just adding additional custom fields and being able to sift/sort on those.
-
Anonymous
commented
Agreed. We need a status "Ready for Testing"
-
Matthew Bassett
commented
Would be good to be able to customise the name (and colour in the chart) for "Progress" / "Status" field (for instance I would like to use a progress named "Blocked" for items where I can make no further progress due to missing inputs or actions from other people).
At the moment the only choice I have is to move such tasks back to "Not started" so that I can focus on the current tasks that I can make progress on.
-
Rob
commented
We should have the ability to customize the fields that we want to add that would better fit our own companies use of the system. We can do this in MS CRM it would be very cool to be able to do this in planner as well.
-
Jay
commented
8 months and 188 votes and still nothing from Microsoft. I thought the concept of "Sending Feedback" was to acknowledge user requests.
-
Mark Ledwich
commented
This is an important feature even for basic task planning. We are using tags to capture out adiditonal status but it isn't as good.
-
Will
commented
I also find this could be helpful. My current workaround for this is the label function. you can Name the colored labels on the right side of the task. For instance i have named the red label ON HOLD. once applied you can see the label on the task in any view.
I would like it if the colors of the labels were customizable though.
-
Andy Robinson
commented
Raising my hand on this one. Example: A plan for a specific tradeshow where we support multiple vendor booths with hardware for the show. A customer can be one task that moves from initial request bucket to hardware define, media define, shipping, and return buckets, adding information along the way. Yes, these can be subtasks, but this allows a more easily visual confirmation and organization tool.
-
Michael Waters
commented
Yes... definitely need ability to add custom fields. I have several data points that need collecting and to be able to use in reports (exporting or otherwise). Branch, Dept, etc. Buckets will not resolve all of that for me because if I use Buckets as my separate Departments, for example, I still need to be able to segment by branch and other organizational categories we use in the company (priority status, severity, etc.) Please add this ability