Create task by sending an email to the Plan
Currently, when a task is created in a "Plan" there is an associated group and group email address for that "Plan". If a user was to comment on a task, an email is sent to the group. Likewise if the recipient of that email replies to it, the comment appears in the task. Would it be possible to Send a new email to the "Plan" email address to create a task with the subject line of that email being the task name and the email's content being the description?
Joseph M. Honea
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We’re in the process of finalizing designs for a Planner add-in for Outlook. From the add-in, users will be able to create tasks for Planner without having to leave their inbox. The email subject and body will autofill as the task title and description, respectively, and users will have the ability to set plan, bucket and assignees . We appreciate your feedback and patience and look forward to this first step in what we hope to be a greater integration with Outlook!
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Anonymous
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"We’re in the process of finalizing designs for a Planner add-in for Outlook. From the add-in, users will be able to create tasks for Planner without having to leave their inbox. The email subject and body will autofill as the task title and description, respectively, and users will have the ability to set plan, bucket and assignees . We appreciate your feedback and patience and look forward to this first step in what we hope to be a greater integration with Outlook!"
-> nearly two years of developing later ;-) Is there a new solution? push! -
Stefan Buttigieg commented
Please finalise this as it's an incredibly important feature! It's been more than 18 months since the last update
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Anonymous
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We so need this. I need my team to buy into planner and this would be a deal saver
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Anonymous
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Go, go, go!
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dedmoget
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Please push the development. We are really need it!
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Anonymous
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How much longer on this?
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Anonymous
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Any feedback on the Planner add-in for Outlook?
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Anonymous
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Cannot believe this isn't a thing yet. I'd have thought it was table stakes for any project management package.
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Anonymous
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When is this functionality ready?
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Meg
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How far is the Planner add in for Outlook?
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Anonymous
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looks great, really missing from outlook. Any further development?
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Osman Beyaztas
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Any update on this? It's a pitty that such a simple but crucial functionality is missing.
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Edgaras Taralis
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(facepalm) - "Outlook add-in"... really? I'm pretty sure that's not what people were asking for. MS as always acts as if there was nothing prior to they developments and reinvents the wheel each time.
I'd suggest to sign up for Asana or Trello and simply look around for half an hour.
Same by the way with Slack for Teams, where most obvious and seem to be standard things are missing... -
Lori
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Is this basic functionality available yet?
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Brian
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Really need this ability. We have people in our office that are not that tech savvy and need a one click solution to create tasks from Outlook.
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DontBeMadBro
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So official response is May 2018, year later and not even a statement?
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Anonymous
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It has taken so long to update I now think Microsoft are finding this too difficult to do and we will never see it. I suggest everybody goes onto Trello and Microsoft can then get rid of Planner.
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J Thomas
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You've been "looking forward" to this for a long time - any news yet?
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James Ward
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Also echoing what Liam says below - the new integration of cloud services in Outlook via add-ins is awful, slow and bloated. The new OneNote for instance is dreadful and I want the old one back!
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James Ward
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How's that finalisation going? I realise it's only been 16 months but we are losing the battle to keep people on 365, let alone Planner. These workflow improvements are about the only aspect that we can use as a vehicle to encourage user adoption away from Trello etc.