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,
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.
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 🙂