Task Notifications and @mention in Planner
- Notifications to the task creator on any changes to a task's status in planner
- Email notifications should include the plan/board that that the task is associated to or a part of
- User should be able to @mention other users within a task
- User should be able to create private channels within a team

105 comments
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tww commented
Not being able to "call attention" to a task in planner, seems a no brainer. Adding @mentions to comments in SharePoint lists, seems @mentions in Planner should be on the roadmap as well.
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Tom commented
How is it not a function already? This thread is from 2018?? Is microsoft team even listen to us?
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John commented
Agree that @ mentions should be available on both the task checklist and within the notes field. Very much needed on my current project.
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Thom commented
Literally a critical feature. If this isn't Planner's no.1 roadmap priority then you're bananas.
It's barely usable without it. Basic user scenario - 2 people are collaborating on a task, one person says: 'Hey @joeblogs ive just added an attachment, left a note, and here's a comment @mentioing you specifically'
....end scenario.
Joe Blogs hasn't been notified of the attachment, the note, the comment, or even the @mention of his name. Despite being the owner of that task. It's kind of the whole point of project management. When the Teams integration was built, i thought to myself 'Ah finally! Teams collaboration!' buuuuuut nope. Still can't notify people. Even though the app is called 'Teams' - not much teamwork going on with this one!
Personally, I feel it must have been part of the MVP? Very weird!!
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Ettine commented
Pleeaaase put in a feature to mention people in Planner so they can easily be notified re a project. Q1 2021 goal?
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Anthony Zoko commented
Critical feature. Preventing us from using planner.
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Philipp commented
please add it asap. essential feature!
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Johan Cortvrindt commented
No mention no collaboration, put it in
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Anonymous commented
Ridiculous this is not a feature. All other apps like this have it.
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Anonymous commented
This is super essential in collaboration around tasks in a plan. Communication around one task should not require someone to be assigned to the task in order for the notification to be sent to that person.
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Mike S commented
We will just have to use Trello until this functionality is added. I just won't be able to convince my users to step back 3 years.
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Anonymous commented
My team used to use Trello which allows for @mentions especially when you want to Inform (RACI) somebody, not assign a task to them. I've convinced them to migrate to Planner, but now they can't use the @mention feature they are used to using. Please add this feature.
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Michael Yantz commented
Upvoted... almost unreal that @ mentions are not available within tasks on Planner. I really hope MS gets around to implementing this.
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[Deleted User] commented
How can we have a planner without this features in 2020 by microsoft..seriously?
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Jens commented
Would love to use it for checklist options on template tasks, so that regular routinge Jobs can be directed to the dedicated persons.
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Anonymous commented
Totally agree that @mentions would be super beneficial!
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Jenny commented
@mentions would be great.
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Anonymous commented
Please add the feature that we can use the @ to notify people inside a task in planner.
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roi commented
This is THE reason we don't use Planner.
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Ahmed Abdullah commented
This suggestion is from 2018 and Microsoft did not even care to implement it ? I'm really afraid that our experience with microsoft 365 is not going to be as we expected, these are crucial and common sense to have a feature, sorry, a fundamentality in a project management tool in the late 2000s
What's is really wrong with you guys at MS not seeing the need of such a thing?