I have argued that MS Project, and certainly Project Server and its direct competitors, are overkill for the needs of most individuals and small teams that really just want something quick and easy to keep their planning organized, and to help drive accountability. For project-centric organizations, Planner is a quick and easy way to get organized. The purpose of this post is not to provide an in-depth review of Microsoft Planner, but I figured I’d supply a quick overview. You can also jump straight to this tip in the video by clicking here. Thankfully, we are coming to the end of this frustrating and time-consuming activity due to advances in task management.ītw, I shared this tip in the October 2019 Productivity Tips webinar with Tom Duff ( and if interested, you can check out the recording and slides. From the earliest days of my PM career, much of my time was spent aggregating tasks from across multiple projects, building out reporting systems, and chasing people for status reports (I don’t miss any of that last one). At least in the preview version of MS Graph.Some of you are aware that I spent the first 15 years of my technology career largely within Project Management roles, and for a few years even deployed project and portfolio management solutions, and helped to build and run project management organizations (PMOs) as both an FTE and a consultant. It now looks like this feature is available. I remember quite a while back I asked for Planner’s priority to be made available in my post about Exporting Planner to Excel using Power Automate. So now we could get to the priority of the task using an http request action to collect the priority of all the tasks. Īll I had to do is use the following graph api end point: So I went over to the graph explorer and got to the details and I found the priority of my tasks. The reason why the Create a task action is in preview is because the Planner action uses the Beta version of the Graph API. Retrieving the priority in Power Automate PriorityĪs things are slightly confusing, I would probably only use the priority values for 1, 3, 5 and 9. That alert settings seems to be a bit randomly spread across the different options anyway.Īnd looking at the beta version of the Graph API, I didn’t get any more information. However this doesn’t mention the alert being switched on. And apparently 0 is Urgent, but I actually found that 0 is Medium. Looking at the create a task (preview) documentation I found quite quickly that the same as I initially discovered. And then for Priority 1, 6,7,8 and 10 there seems to be a bit of a confusion as the icon for Urgent is used while the priority may not be set to Urgent. So I quite quickly found out that Priority 0 is Medium, 1 is Urgent. To find out what is going on I create a flow and created a task for each priority So why can we set this Priority field to 10 values? From the tip in the edit box we can see that we are expected to supply a value between 0 and 10. Set the task priority in Microsoft PlannerĪll the way at the bottom there is the Priority field. But I will leave that problem for another post on a different day. Due to the ridiculous datamodel used by the categories all the different categories take up a lot of the space. The Create a task action now has two versions, and the preview version allows you to set the priority to a value from 0 to 10. Retrieving the priority in Power Automate. Set the task priority in Microsoft Planner.
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