Please add a @mention functionality to checklist and comments section in Planner
When I am adding checklist or comments on Planner Tasks then I want to be able to mention a specific employee who the task, or item in checklist is assigned. This way I want the person to be notified.

12 comments
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Josne commented
Needed feature. Thanks.
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Andrea commented
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Anonymous commented
that is the reason my whole company is still on a other tool. waiting for useful notification functionality - "Users who already wrote a comment will geht notification" is NOT useful.
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Anonymous commented
That's THE reason why my team is still using Trello vs Planner.
Such a pity it doesn't already exist in Planner -
Matt Hinnebusch commented
The "mention" functionality is great. However, any assigned persons should always get a notification email when a comment is added. But, nobody ever needs a notification email when they comment on a task themselves.
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Josh Rudow commented
Shocked this isn't already a part of Planner. Likely going to move my entire team over to Trello, a much better planning App.
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Anonymous commented
@john
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Ethan Thompson commented
This would be a very beneficial feature. It's hard to believe it isn't already available. I've seen users asking for this for a few years now. Development, please roll this feature out!
Vote on these 5 other posts as well to help get this implemented:
https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/20231233-pls-add-a-mention-functionality-when-adding-comm
https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/32079991-please-add-a-mention-functionality-to-checklist-a
https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/37654237-need-richer-commenting-ux
https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/35741539-using-mention-in-the-planner-comment-box
https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/35098264-task-notifications-and-mention-in-planner -
Stephen Beler commented
@person or ~taskName would be great so we can link tasks together quickly.
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Alex Ullrich (Boehringer Ingelheim) commented
This would make much sense! We tried to move from JIRA to MS Planner, but missing this feature might lead us back to JIRA...?!
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Ahmed Almulki commented
This ability let me move my tasks from planner to trello
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Bruce commented
Admin, please integrate "Ability to mention collegue in comments section" and "Please add a @mention functionality to checklist and comments section in Planner" and "allow @mentions in post from within the planner app"