How can I sort Planner tasks within buckets by due date automatically as I add them?

Anonymous
2023-08-14T15:13:58+00:00

I use a Kaban-style board sorted into buckets for each project. Frustratingly, I cannot figure out how to sort the tasks within a bucket by due date automatically. Currently, if I want to see the most urgent items at the top and least urgent at the bottom, I need to manually drag the task down... which does not scroll down well, so I often need to drag & drop, drag & drop, drag & drop... until it arrives where I need it.

How could I keep this same Kaban-style board format (not list, grid, or schedule view) and have each column sorted by due date, even when I add a new task in?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T18:59:16+00:00

    I am also looking answer for this issue.

    I understand that you can't sort bucket-view by due date possibly because you can sort it by drag-and-drop, but there still should be a way to auto sort a view by due date (which will of course mess drag-and-drop sorts if you have used that).

    I even tried to create a workflow with Power Automate (just as I did to auto assign tasks to the creator of the task, since there is not GUI implementation for this in the Planner), but there is no available action to change "list ID" (or what ever is the "invisible" field in the task that saves the task location inside the bucket) so I think Power Automate is also a dead end solution for this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-13T16:54:35+00:00

    Exactly true. I want my the tasks WITHIN a bucket to be sorted in some way by date... astonished that this is not possible.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-21T07:15:10+00:00

    I have just stumbled across this short-coming... Surely this is fairly basic functionality of a planning tool - to be able to view the Board with tasks sorted in date order!! Please microsoft - get this sorted!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-04T18:48:43+00:00

    I would also like to sort buckets by date or alphabetically. I understand that may not be feasible from the bucket view, but it would at least be nice to sort from the list view.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-14T20:32:19+00:00

    This is one of the most frustrating functions. I use the planner to track my teams tasks. Even when you switch to grid view you can't filter by date newsest to oldest. IT's always today, next week or later. And when you chose one of those they arent even chronoligical!? Pure hot garbage. Please fix this and let us filter by date correctly.

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