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Allow us to have Custom Progress Status’s

It would be nice to be able to create custom status’s for your board.

We use additional status’s for when we are working on a task. For example something may be in progress but we would set the status to Waiting on Customer or Pending Testing.

It would be great to create our own status’s that can be applied to the Plan for better tracking.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree completely, this should be very easy to implement and adds a lot of value

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The same feeling as the other people here!!! Please allow us to add progress status's that work with our environments

  • Rajeshreeputra Pravin Dhondiba Gaikwad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, this needs to be available in the planner. We do have statuses like Yet to Start, Pipelined, In Discussion, RND/POC, Inprogress, Roadblock, Waiting on user input, Waiting on third-party/vendor, Completed, UAT, Production approval pending, Production Approved, Deployment Approved, Deployment Completed, Infant Care, Closed.

    If we have these statuses in Planner then we may not need to maintain separate excel to track activities.

  • Fiona Slavin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As each business has different requirements, adding customisable status options in Planner would be highly desirable. These need to be downloadable into an excel report as well. Thank you.

  • François Généreux commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi everyone! Any developpement about the Planner "custom status's"¿
    Hi hope to see this feature in 2020..... will be very nice for our business and many others...
    Have a good day,
    Frank

  • Felix commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree.. Would be nice if the Status view would allow user to add more statues like you do with Buckets.
    This newly added status values would then appear in the dropdown list in the task.

    in addition it would be very very helpful if the Start View (by bucket, by status etc) can be set with a URL parameter, so starting the Application out of MS-Teams will show the STATUS view initially!

  • Christian Schuricht commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please add the possibility to define custom status options like "on hold"
    Also it would be great to have a backlog like in jira where you can collect everything and then send it to the board when needed. This however can be temporarily overcome with using buckets

  • Aws commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    possibility to add ‘On-Hold’ under Task progress, when we add Planner Tab.

  • Kamil Erdem commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why does such a simple development still not come. I need additional cases like Invoiced, Pending Approval. We sit down and write the same program in a week.

  • Henry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have tried to compensate for this issue by using different buckets, but it's more cumbersome and becomes redundant. Would be an excellent addition to the Planner system.

  • Archibald Tuttle commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have projects that end up on hold for various reasons, and an "On hold" progress status would be good, allowing users to customize a set of progress status options would be far more more powerful and flexible, give better insight into tasks. Tasks have colored labels that can be customized easily, and provide far less useful information compared to a flexible status list.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a main reason we stopped using MS Planner (and MS Teams as a whole). A project management / task management app without basic statuses like "On Hold", "Dependent", "Pending Review" or a custom status option one can set for different teams is unfortunately very useless to us.

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