Adding more Labels in Planner

Anonymous
2016-07-21T13:46:03+00:00

Does anyone know how to add more labels to tasks in Planner? I require more than the six provider.

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Anonymous
2016-07-21T14:17:46+00:00

Hi Emiller109,

It’s not feasible to add more labels. About your requirement, it’s a very constructive suggestion, we welcome and encourage you to share your ideas through User Voice forum. Understanding your experience helps us to make our product and service better for you and others.

https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/12233640-function-to-add-more-labels

We appreciate your understanding.

Kerwin

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-22T19:50:19+00:00

    I concur with the other members here on

    1. There should be a way to add more labels and
    2. There should be a way to sort based on labels

    Is any of these being considered?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-15T13:07:22+00:00

    Does anyone know how to add more labels to tasks in Planner? I require more than the six provider. 

    Agree! The current implementation of labels, not only the limit of 6, is not sufficient to organise work effectively. It's relatively easy to see how Asana (tags) or Trello (labels) did it. In the planner board view the labels are useless IMHO. Only when a card is open you see what is written on it.

    As little as it looks, this is an important factor to convince die-hard Asana or Trello users to use a solution that integrates otherwise so well with the MS ecosystem in our company.

    I understand there might be a road-map for this product and it took also time until Asana and Trello offered it but MS should learn from them and listen to the users.

    BTW: Can we have user defined fields as in ASANA, please!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-16T10:28:51+00:00

    Also a problem for us. Would potentially stop us from moving across from Trello as we need to categorise and use labels in all teams and always more than 6.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-27T10:33:35+00:00

    More labels please, 6 is not enough. 20+ will be more suitable

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