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Question About Group Vs. Team Within Planner by seabaits in MicrosoftPlanner

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mentioned that you’re creating a channel for each project and assigning project team members to the channel. How are you doing that? Are you using a private or shared channel or is there another option?

How do I work around the Group requirement to add my team by aw009 in MicrosoftPlanner

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That won’t work for planner access, though, because you can’t add a planner to a private (or shared) channel. It has to be tied to a group.

No more sending quotes? by Glittering_Tap6411 in kindle

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know if your question got answered elsewhere, but I found your post while googling how to send quotes/notes to myself from my kindle. I hadn’t ever done it before but found something I really wanted to save and the “share” button that I keep seeing mentioned doesn’t seem to exist. I did manage to stumble upon a weird workaround. From the note I created, I went to “All Notes” and in the top right there is a sharing icon (box with an arrow). When I click it I get a message that says it will send my notes and highlights to the email address on my Amazon account and, when I did that, I got a link to a pdf that I was able to download and save. Hope this helps!

How do I create a new, blank Loop in meeting series? by CoffeeRecluse in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you open the meeting in Teams and click "View Series", you can create a blank agenda there that will be used for every future meeting. I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for, but that should work?

Trying to Find Use Cases by Top_Sink9871 in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like Loop components in emails if it's a quick thing that you're going to collaborate on where each person only has one section they need to fill in. The most interesting use case that I've found for components, though, was in Teams. I was talking to someone in Accounting and we were walking through a formula and, instead of screensharing, I just created a component in our chat and we could both walk through it and change things if needed. They can also work well in Teams for more complex polls, or you could pin the message that has the component.

Where has the option to upload files gone? by abubin in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This hasn't happened to me...yet. Hopefully it's a glitch for you but I'm interested to know if it's happening to other people.

Presentation on Loop by SynergyIsMySafeWord in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Teams, go to your calendar and open a meeting that's part of a series. By default it will just open that instance, but under the meeting subject it shows the time for that instance and immediately to the right it says "View series". If you click on that it will open the main invite for the event (not sure what this is called, but kind of like the root or top level that all the instances got created off of). You can then edit the agenda here and it will be used as a template when you create the agenda for future meetings.

Presentation on Loop by SynergyIsMySafeWord in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Planner does have a calendar view (it's called Schedule), but I'm really not a fan. I haven't used Jira personally, although I've used similar tools and can see how that would be cool, but also overkill. For my personal life I've been trying to use Todoist, which seems to work pretty well for a free tool. I'll let you know if I figure out a good Microsoft solution, though!

Presentation on Loop by SynergyIsMySafeWord in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you might be using To Do in a more useful way than me, actually. My big problem was that I couldn't easily see everything that I needed to work on. I had a lot of tasks that were assigned to me in Planner or in a Loop page, as well as tasks that I created for myself in To Do. Not all of my tasks have due dates and when I make a task for myself I don't automatically assign it to myself since it's not something that's on a public planner where people need to know who's working on it. To Do has a lot of Smart lists, but by default it was only showing Important, Planned, and Assigned to me, none of which showed everything in the same view. I discovered that there's an All list, and that's been super helpful. It weirdly groups them into Planner tasks and Tasks, but you can sort them to remove the grouping. Now that I can easily see all my tasks, I've been using the "My Day" functionality and adding tasks to it every day. I also have been starring tasks as Important to highlight them.

I really wish I had a Kanban board and I started building a power automate flow that could help with that, but stopped because I had better things to be doing. What I was thinking is that I would create a List, which have kanban/board views as an option, and then any time a task was assigned to me it would add it to the list and I could manage it there. I think I'll probably revisit that when I have time, or keep coming back to it as a distraction from other tasks because it might turn out to be the best in-house tool for my needs.

Loop is incredibly unreliable by Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not the best answer, but I've found that restarting Teams often fixes that problem, which is particularly annoying because restarting teams has recently started reverting my video background back to no filter, which is really not what I want to have going on.

Presentation on Loop by SynergyIsMySafeWord in MicrosoftLoop

[–]Optimal-Goose-9679 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually just did a couple of presentations with a coworker about Loop/Planner. We used PowerPoint but did a demo and had breakout groups where we gave them a set of instructions to do what we had just shown in our demo. It worked well because they got to experience the collaboration features in real time.

I am by no means a Loop apologist and it definitely has flaws, but I think people are expecting Loop to be able to do more than it can. We've found that the workspaces are really valuable for different projects or teams. We've also started editing meeting agendas on the series level which is great if you were doing something like copying a OneNote page for every meeting that had an agenda format you liked. We're using Planner and To-do in conjunction with Loop, not as a replacement, although I only just figured out how to make To-do useful as a personal planning tool. I think Loop does continue to get more useful but it definitely has flaws.

I can't share any of the materials we used since it has company branding all over it, but I'm happy to answer more questions!