What’s New for Planner in Teams in September 2024

This September we’re adding bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and grid view labels. Planner app for Microsoft Teams. We’ve been listening to your feedback and looking forward to the latest features that will make it even easier to manage your tasks. Also check out: Recent AMA Learn more about upcoming features in the new planner!

The label column is now in grid view.

Use the Label column in the grid view of your master plan to better organize and categorize your tasks. We’ve heard this feature request from our customers and hope it makes it easier for you to track progress and manage your projects. Try it out by going to the grid view of your master plan and selecting “Add Label” for any task in the Label column. You can select a label on a task to edit the label name and filter by label to get a more detailed view of your plan.

Improving Plan Accessibility

We’re committed to making Planner accessible to everyone, and this update includes several improvements that advance that vision.

• The instructions for the Label menu on the Job Details page have been revised.: We’ve made the label menu easier to understand and use, so everyone can categorize their work effectively.
• Edit key dates related to a task using your keyboard: You can now edit start and end dates using the keyboard, making it more convenient for users who prefer keyboard navigation.
• Narrator now correctly reads the selected values ​​for a task’s priority and progress fields.

Bug fixes in My Day

We’ve also fixed a few bugs to improve the user experience on the My Day page in the Planner app. With this latest set of updates, you can expect your To Do tasks due today and newly created tasks to show up correctly in My Day.

Share your thoughts

Your feedback helps us shape our feature updates, and we look forward to hearing what you think as you try out new and existing features in Planner! To share feedback about the new Planner app in Teams, including any bugs you find in the product, go to the :question_mark: icon in the Planner app and select “Feedback.” Also, if there are any features you’d like to see added to the app, please share them with us. Planner Feedback Portal.

Learn more about the new planner