Link tasks between different plans
It would be extremely helpful if you could create a task in one plan and have it duplicated in a separate plan(s), and only needing to update the task in one place.
Example. I create a task in Plan A. I duplicate the task in Plan B. When I make any changes or updates to the task, it updates in Plan A and Plan B.
Greg S.
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18 comments
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Ron Ho
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Waiting for this... Please prioritize this functionality!
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Anonymous
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Agreed! This would be very helpful for managing tasks duplicated and posted in different plans.
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Dan M
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This is a vital feature to avoid having to created multiple, unnecessarily overlapping teams.
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Scott K.
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Yes please, it would be very useful to have tasks visible across different boards in different teams. Ideally the task would be editable on all boards but a step in the right direction would be editable only on the primary board and with view only on secondary boards.
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Cody Wilson
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completely agree, this feature is 100% needed.
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Anonymous
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This is really needed!
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dAb
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yes please!
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Anonymous
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Agreed. Please make this happen. I am hesitant to incorporate Microsoft planner because it would "add" another step (using another software) for my team.
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Anonymous
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Yes this is needed!
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Rachel
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Agreed. This would be very helpful. We have multiple Team groups and would like to be able to link tasks across groups for visibility and resource allocation.
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Anonymous
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Yes please! Would be very helpful
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Romel Manalo
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This would be very helpful especially you won't need to maintain duplicate task everywhere
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K.K
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Yes please! Really need this update - would have so much more users and wont need to duplicate the task and change it in multiple locations.
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Anonymous
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I would also really appreciate this feature. My team has team plan and I have my own planner for things that would clutter my team's planner.
Obviously there are overlap between my personal planner and my team's.
It would be helpful to be able have the tasks in both plans and simultaneously update one and have the updates transfer instead of having a copy of the same task in both planners and have to update each individually. -
Anonymous
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Yes please! I'd very much like to link tasks based on dependencies. Say I have a plan with several buckets. In one bucket, I want to implement a new business policy to setup bundling of a new product we've released with an existing product. I have Tasks that have to happen to enable that bucket of the plan, but some tasks can't start until another is complete.
I'd love to be able to link the tasks and dependencies so that we can see what is next or what can't start. Especially, if we could visualize this to show some tasks are more critical or delays that will occur (similar to GANTT charts).
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Andrew Adams
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Agreed. My department uses Asana in this way, and I would love to see this feature in Planner. We have project plans and as we come up on a project, we link the tasks to the department backlog to make it available. We then break it down further with an action items project where team members select the tasks they are going to work on in a given week from the backlog and assign it to themselves.
Through this, there is only one task that exists in each of the 3 plans it is associated with which means no duplicating of tasks. When a comment is placed in the task from any plan that it exists, you can see it any any of the other plans the task is in.
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Chuck
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Thumbs up on this feature, it would be very useful in my use case.
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Anonymous commented
For me this would be very useful, I might have for example a Plan for Team Training, while having a Plan for Developing the Partner Status with a vendor. A Task for a resource to achieve a certain certification would ideally be create in either of the plans and be linked to the other.
As soon as the Tech passed the certification, setting a complete status on either plan would reflect on both, thus informing different teams of the success, each with their own objectives that depend on the same task to move forward.