Permissions levels that block users to delete or conclude tasks
Any user can conclude, delete, alter due date and do other modifications on any task. Only the task's owner and the group owner should be able to do that.
Marcelo Sonza
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356 comments
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Mahmoud Ayoub
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Since 2017 and they are collecting votes to proceed with this crucial request ?
how i am supposed to create tasks for the teams and then one of them for some reason decided to delete all the tasks including critical infos or links !!! -
Peter Hemmingsen
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The feature is crucial. We want to use planner, however if tasks can be deleted it is not a viable option.
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Steve
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How about adding the other 1,800 votes for https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/20461342-permissions-capability to this uservoice as it is asking the same thing
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Siddharth
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I would like this feature as well. Aside from Trust, it would be a safety feature to avoid inadvertent deletes.
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cadone
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Please understand, I love planner. All my team members love planner too.
But we can’t run business just by ethics and trust.
Kinda like administrators and users relation. User shouldn’t be able to do certain action like “delete”.
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cadone
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Please add this feature. We don’t want task executers to modify completion dates or delete buckets, tasks, sub tasks. Imagine we have a bucket with hide lists of important tasks and sub tasks with completion dates. Is the members who are working on the task simply delete couple of tasks, planners won’t even know. So the plan is derailed. So please restrict who can delete.
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Anonymous
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This is a must have...
It is very stupid when employee can delete or edit task assigned to him/her...
Microsoft... Do it now! -
Steve C
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Prevent deleting tasks in Planner. Need more permissions based on user.
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Martin Whiteside
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Allowing deletion of tasks is really problematic as a user in ToDo can delete a task thinking they are removing it from their own list but actually remove it from the Planner list
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Anonymous
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How come such a basic thing is still pending since 2016?!
This is a major no go! -
KT Administrator
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It is lame that this function is not standard! Microsoft... it is 2021!
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Anonymous
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We just had a Teams member accidentally delete a Planner board for an entire department... Substantial amount of work lost. Our IT division advises no way to recover or prevent this happening in future. The lack of controls in place here is frankly astounding. You're Microsoft!?
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Adetutu Olokunbola
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how many years will this take before we get this feature??? i mean common, we are in 2021!!!!
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Maria
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Please make this happen NOW. Without this capability, we lose critical information and this renders Planner almost useless if anyone can delete and those review/approval comments are lost, along with critical projects and their due dates.
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jason
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I agree and vote for this change to me made immediately. As a owner, I assign task but other members keep deleting the plan (assigned task) hence not doing work!
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MSMK
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I can't believe that this feature hasn't been added yet. I can't have employees modifying the due dates and urgency of their requests just to bump it to the front of the line. No reason this shouldn't already be added after four years.
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lcmg
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Permissions at plan or task level (rather than group level) is also required for organisations that have a policy that a group must have more than one owner - such policies completely preclude use of planner as a personal productivity tool, unless we had the option of setting setting a permission at plan or task level.
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Anonymous
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that is a must don we can not use tasks without this function !
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Steve
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There are several uservoice entries for this - some say read only, view only, permissions, etc. They all point to the same thing that is needed - Permissions. Apparently MS assume that if anyone can see a Plan within Planner they must also need the ability to edit and delete tasks !! This is crazy, it means that Planner is no more than a shopping list and not a serious business tool.
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Mike W
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A simple flag to prevent all task deletions in a Plan might be enough. It's the old "where's the task gone" problem (again). An alternative is a proper, searchable audit trail (see elsewhere), which I also think is essential for use of this application. Losing tasks is expensive!