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Allow Complete Task per assigned person

Whilst the new feature of assigning tasks to more than one person is excellent there still needs to be a way for each person assigned the task to assign the status as it relates to them. Otherwise, a task with multiple parts or people assigned to it cannot indicate their part in the completion.

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  • Chelsea Hood commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are just introducing MS Teams Planner in our Organization and I was disappointed to see that this feature is not available. It will be necessary for us in how we intend to use this tool for tracking projects and task completion.

  • chris commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    What is the status of this feature?

    I agree with the most others it is a MUST feature!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I encourage people to support this request - the idea is to not close the task when *any* one person completes it.....but to create one task that is assigned to EVERYONE in the list, and only close the task after EVERY individual completes it.

    I have many use cases for this:
    * assign all team members to complete an evaluation
    * assign all team members to log hours on Friday
    * assign all employees to read the mandatory training

    Each person should see a card on their personal "my tasks" view which goes away when they complete it, but that task should stay active for any other assigned members that have not yet completed it. The ONE TASK (the group task) that was created should show progress by listing who has completed and who has not.

  • Austin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please implement this, necessary in my cross-functional environment. I propose that the task is automatically "in-progress" as soon as the first assignee has clicked completed. The task is only fully complete when all have completed it.

  • Jeff Brown commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Whether by making it easier to clone a task or by assigning a task discretely to multiple users,this is the biggest thing preventing me from getting more value from Planner. Would be a great way to leverage all the other strengths around Teams integration, notifications, etc.

  • MICHOT commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, there is more often a person in charge of the task and then people who bring information about the task - it would be perfect if this could be developpement

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree and would vote for this improvement. It would save a lot of time and effort setting up individual tasks

  • Markus Radtke commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I see that the Microsoft To-Do App now has Steps. I believe this is a good "step" in the right direction. These "Steps", aka checklist items should work as a sub-task, that can be assigned and "ticked" off individually by the assigned person, and then sending a status update to the defined Project manager. There seems to be a fitting uservoice request already - please vote!

    https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/18733873-multiple-steps-with-multiple-users-with-notificati

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Was so excited to get Teams and be able to add this. How disappointing it was to find out that I could not assign a task to multiple users. I too need to track a single task and ensure it is completed by multiple users. In the past this was done with a please reply email... not optimal. MS, how is this not an obvious need.

  • Matthew Haggard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, it's great we can assign multiple people to a task but not great that only one marks it complete, regardless of whether or not the rest have completed it as well.

  • Paul McG commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If Planner had this feature its use in our process development process would be a slam dunk. Without it, we need to explore alternatives which in turn limits the value of Teams as the one stop shop for this kind of work. Please @microsoft, how many votes do we need? Someone click the "like" button and get this suggestion onto the For You page! (Woops, wrong app but you get the picture).

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This has come up a few times in my organisation. Use cases include trainers who are running courses on Teams and wanted to use Planner to assign and track tasks that should be completed by all their students; or in organisational teams which have generic tasks that should be completed by all team members (i.e. Submit holiday requests, submit development targets etc.)

  • Derek commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As a Project Manager, this really needs to be implemented. Without this, it is "not fit for purpose" as a Task management tool.

  • Stefan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Dieses Feature würde die Akzeptanz von Planner auf einen Schlag tausendfach verbessern.
    Please @Microsoft. Work in it.

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