When a user decides to connect Planner to Outlook, they go to the My Tasks view in Planner and click the ellipsis menu to reveal the choice to Add “My Tasks” to Outlook calendar (Figure 1).įigure 4: Planner tasks in an OWA calendar (image credit: Tony Redmond) A One-Way Affair I hope Microsoft simplifies this aspect soon as the ability to enable and disable features should be controlled in the Office 365 Admin Center, just like the other applications do. If you don’t want to allow users to synchronize Planner tasks to Outlook, you can disable the feature by following the instructions in this article. Outlook calendar synchronization is automatically enabled for all Office 365 tenants that have Planner as part of their subscription. The solution now offered is to synchronize tasks with Outlook calendars. Plenty of examples exist within Microsoft for how to format and print task information, including the range of options available in OWA to print calendar and task data. In any case, printing task lists is hardly an act of extraordinary software engineering. Of course, you could make the argument that people don’t need old-fashioned printouts to help them manage tasks because they can do this through the Planner browser and mobile clients (for IOS and Android).īut that’s ignoring the fact that some people find it easier to print stuff off and review items on paper. It’s a strange oversight for an application designed to help people to organize work.
Despite rolling out some recent upgrades (and yes, guest access is finally rolling out), the Planner team have left one of the biggest complaints about their product unanswered No option exists to print off a plan, lists of tasks for a plan or a bucket within a plan, or details of the tasks assigned to an individual.
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