HI , I need to be able to categorize my plans into about 6 categories to keep track of them. I will have hundreds of plans. Planner only allows to categories (favorites and more plans). Can anyone think of a workaround for the lack of this feature or any way to alter Planner to be able to add these categories?
thanks,
Another possible work around might be to use MS teams and have a team per groups or category and then within each of your teams have a tab per plan. Not the best solution but might be an option for you.
Oh I like that. I guess it depends how many groups he has, otherwise you’d have a gazillion tabs to deal with. If it’s a few … good idea 🙂 probably better than mine.
Hi Mark,
Thanks very much for your answer. Could you elaborate on your workaround ideas. I’m not quite following what you mean. I would really like to try these ideas out. More details about what you were thinking would be very helpful.
Ed
I was thinking you could you use a new “plan” that serves only as a set of links to all your other plans. See the picture on my answer, hopefully that explains it. You can easily get the unique url for the plan by copy and pasting from the address bar. Use that and add it as a “link” on the task. You can then have one task for each planner board.
This is a bit of a shortcoming in Planner … (Unlike Trello). I imagine they’re going to add tagging, grouping at the “plan” level soon though.
As a workaround you could create a “master plan” board (add it as the only favorite) and use Buckets / Labels as group identifiers. You can then add a Task with a link to the plan you want.
It’s not ideal i know but may serve your needs.
Failing that you could use a SharePoint List with filters and tagging etc…
After a little more research it appears the infrastructure is in place to support it. A planner group is an “Office 365 Group” and it currently only allows a 1 to 1 inside of Planner. However, Microsoft Teams allows more than 1.
https://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2016/11/microsoft-teams-office-365-groups-multiple-plans/
So i think this is coming real soon 🙂