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,
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 🙂