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I want a "Convert to Task Planner" button for emails

Most of our tasks come in via email, a simple button to convert it to a planner task would be imperative, otherwise it renders the planner a little bit pointless for us.

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Planned  ·  AdminPlanner Team (Product Manager, Planner) responded  · 

As an update, our colleagues in To-Do have delivered the ability to create tasks directly from Outlook.com!

To-Do has rolled out the Tasks Pane for Outlook.com’s Mail & Calendar, and is also the new Tasks for Outlook.com! With Planner’s & To-Do’s integration, we hope that To-Do will become a central hub for all of your personal tasks, and that switching to Planner to collaborate with others is seamless!

Here’s more information on the To-Do’s task experience within Outlook: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/using-microsoft-to-do-with-outlook-com-416865a1-0c4d-4e69-af6f-f98ffce3747c

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  • Douglas commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The proposal of using Flow does not work as expected. The best possibility using flow is make a task using email subject, but the email's content will be not part of the task. Emails use to have all information that will be needed in task.

  • Mike G commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    this would be a huge help. The flow option doesn't work because of the way it renders the body of the email. It is just a huge garbled mess.
    The task should be labled with the Subject of the email. The description should contain the body of the message as it appears in Outlook. Any files attached to the email would be added as attachments to the task.

  • Erica commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    that's true, most of my tasks come via e-mail. It would be really nice if you could add a task to a planner from Outlook. Maybe with quick steps in outlook, of add in?

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Simply put, Flow costs extra after a certain point. An embedded feature is much more user friendly and cost effective.

  • Brian Reese commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey Planner Team Admin!

    Following up on your note about being to do use Flow to integrate email to Planner. Can you make it so planner will render the html to display the contents of the email properly and not just an html output? That would make that option work a whole lot better and actually usable!

    Thanks!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I want to drag and drop like I can in outlook for an email to either Calendar or Task. Otherwise, I have to copy/paste to use it...

  • Henrik Søgaard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I guess you can sort of do that using Flow, by flagging and E-mail and then let Flow create the task in Planner

  • Dave commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would make the planner really integrated into outlook - tasks are a bit outdated now we have the planner functionality to organise our to-do lists

  • Luc T commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Need it for a better integration of office 365.
    There's a way to do that, sending to a Trello board and using Flow to import from Trello to Planner. To complex and need a different pathway for each board.

  • Rocky commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Copying S K:

    "Ironically, there is a Trello add on for the Outlook mobile and desktop apps that does this, would be awesome to have similar (or better) capability and integration for Planner."

  • S K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ironically, there is a Trello add on for the Outlook mobile and desktop apps that does this, would be awesome to have similar (or better) capability and integration for Planner.

  • André Ribeiro commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This should be standard feature out of the box. Please do not allow some other company to make money out of this essential use case.

  • Alon Ekelund commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Using iPlanner Pro and Add-in to Outlook you will be able to create a task based on an email. You will have the same options directly from your mail as you have from the online Planner. Actually you will have more options. You will even be able to save the task as a calendar entry both in you calendar and the group calendar. https://store.office.com/en-001/app.aspx?assetid=WA104380464

  • Alicia commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is hugely why we've been using Trello. The email to board function is a must for us to consider moving over to Planner.

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