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I just have to create simple project management using the MERN stack. thank u for this video. now I have a basic idea of what I should implement. unlike other tools, this is the most simple one.thank u again
You're very welcome. Unfortunately you cannot modify the default dashboard unless you do it in Power Apps. You could also connect the data source to Microsoft PowerBI to generate your own dashboards. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
Useful intro. I would recommend to zoom in on your screen a little more as it is difficult to see specific fields in your demo (even when I expanded video to full screen).
Hi there, thank you for the feedback. At the time I recorded this tutorial, my production skills were rather immature. I definitely utilize zoom for all of my more recent tutorials. Thank you for watching!
Hi Lui! First of all thanks for the explanition! It is really nice. I want ask this: in my dashboard in the columm Status, Category, Priority, din't appears anything and i created them in the app. Can you help me? Thanks!
Hi Jose, thank you for the kind words. I took a look at the app documentation and I did not see any recorded issues where the columns are missing from the dashboard. For reference, this is where these might be logged: github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-milestones/issues I also haven't seen any other users on forums cite this issue. As a result, I'd suggest removing the app from your team and re-adding it. I hope this helps and thank you for watching.
Hi Allison,, at this time you cannot export projects in the milestones app. The app is still in preview phase however, so it is possible that Microsoft will introduce such functionality later. Also, this app can be customized through Microsoft Power Apps, so someone with the know how could add such functionality themselves.
All the data in the Milestones app is stored in the Dataverse for Teams DB that is provisioned with the sample app. You can directly access this data via UI or connectors from flow. You can also report on this data from Power BI. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/customize-sample-apps
Hi there, I wanted to let you know that I've created a tutorial that demonstrates how to extract data from this app. The link to that tutorial is here: ruclips.net/video/Nb88napQG7E/видео.html
Nice introduction. Is it just me or is the "+ work item" missing in Milestones? And do you think we will see integration with to do in a future version?
Hi Ole, thanks for the question. I just double checked my app across several channels in different teams and I can see the "+ work item" button. I'd suggest uninstalling the app & reinstalling. As for integration with Tasks by Planner & To Do, I doubt it. Microsoft really built these apps to showcase the power platform and the ability to extend teams. Users may be able to add this integration themselves with Power Apps.
As I have noted in a couple of other replies, this sample app can be extended by the installer to integrate with planner. You can refer to another sample app called Issue Reporting (aka.ms/TeamsIssueReporting) to see how to integrate a Power App with Planner. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/customize-sample-apps
Hi Desert, sorry about that. I have since corrected my approach to recording to ensure the highest possible quality. I appreciate the feedback. Also, nice monitor!
I don't know if you can help, in New Teams this app is not available, on "old" teams when I add it says an error occured. This is a problem with apps that can disappear taking with them valuable time and information you enter.
I've noticed this too but have not found a resolution. The new Teams app is still in preview but will be rolling out to the public soon. It is also lagging support for all features found in the old app. This may be the reason. Hope this helps!
Hi Lui, A question I have if you dont mind answering...I've added Milestones to a channel in New Teams, but there is no left pane showing "+New Project", the only option is the right pane with "+New Work Item".....what am I missing ?
Hi Kimmo, unfortunately you cannot create a Gannt chart from the Milestones app. This app isn't meant to be a robust project management app such as MS Project or even as detailed as Tasks by Planner & To Do. Rather, this app is meant to demonstrate the type of apps that can built for use in Teams when built on the Power Platform (i.e. Power Apps, Power Automate).
Hi Mari, apologies for the delay. It seems as though Microsoft pulled the activity log feature from the app at some point after I recorded this tutorial. I'm not entirely sure why. When I try to reinstall the app, it still shows as version 1 with no incremental updates. You could attempt to add it in to the app yourself if you were familiar with how to use Microsoft Power Apps. Hope this helps!
Hi Vinh, thanks for the question. Unfortunately using the out of the box configuration of this app, you are only able to assign a work item to 1 individual. That being said, if you are licensed to use Microsoft Power Apps & have the necessary experience, you can customize the app to allow assignment to multiple individuals.
Hi there, this is used within Microsoft Teams. There is no other way to use it. As such, if you wanted to permit external users to access it, you would need to invite them into a Team in your organizations Microsoft Teams environment (as a guest using a guest account or other). Once they are setup with access in your organization's team, they'd be able to access this app. Hope this helps!
Objectives and key results is a broad term and can be presented in many different ways. It would depend on how you structure them. Given most OKRs are more repeatable business metrics, I'd say this tool is unlikely to work for that use case. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
Hi Rick, that is interesting. Based on my testing of the milestones app, there is no integration with Tasks by Planner & To Do. Tasks created there wouldn't show up in the Milestone app & milestones won't appear in Tasks by Planner & To Do. I think I would use this to help me manage simple projects with others where I want to be able to show some basic stats on progress. Personally, I think Tasks by Planner & To Do is still my go to tool for managing work in Teams!
@@LuiIacobellis , thanks for replying. However, I don't mean work items, I mean the milestones. I only see them in the Milestone Status part of the user interface and there's no date column. I must be doing something wrong.
Hi Jordane, there are some other apps that you can use within Teams that provide enhanced project management functionality. In my experience most of these require a licence and/or additional costs. Microsoft Project is one example. To use it within a Team however, users would need to be licenced to use it. Other third party apps that are available for use within Teams include Asana, Smartsheet and Zoho Projects. I do have a tutorial on using Zoho Project within Teams. Its somewhat lengthy but you can review the timeline and check out the GANTT Chart functionality. Hope this helps & thanks for watching. ruclips.net/video/UrPjWzvRUro/видео.html
Hi @Michael Kt Based on my testing of this app, you are not able to create a new project as a copy of an existing project. Unfortunately, you have to create it from scratch every time. Note that however, this app can be customized using Microsoft Power Apps. Someone with knowledge of Power Apps could add this functionality to the app. Thanks for the question!
@@LuiIacobellis thanks for the response. That’s one functionality that unfortunately will prevent my team from adopting this app. I’m hoping this gets added natively instead of trying to get a powerapps guru to add it.
Hi Edward, unfortunately this sample app doesn't support integration with Tasks by Planner and To Do in its current iteration. This app can however, be extended and customized through Microsoft Power Apps. It would require a paid licence to Power Apps and the know how to do so. Thanks for the question!
Milestone cannot work in private channel. In a public channel, everyone can see all the projects in the Milestone even though they are not a member of the project. Where is the privacy? This really sucks!
Hi Rick, I’m not entirely sure what the rationale was for not being able to use the sample apps (including Milestones) in a private channel. From a technical perspective, it is confirmed that you’re unable to in the sample app “Known Limitations” documentation. See link below. Private channels inherently restrict visibility into the members which is implicit in the term “private” and the apps need to be able to access members to function properly. Too bad, as there are probably some legitimate use cases to add this to a private channel! Limitations: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/known-issues-limitations Channel Visibility: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/group?view=graph-rest-1.0&preserve-view=true#group-visibility-options
Hi. To export the data to excel you would need to access the app from the Microsoft Teams Power App app. This gives you an option to view the underlying data where you can copy & paste into excel (I don't think you can export from here). To access the data for connection to another Power App, you would need to connect to the underlying data table in Dataverse. I will be posting a video showing this & will update this comment once live.
Hi there, I wanted to let you know that I've created a tutorial that demonstrates how to extract data from this app. The link to that tutorial is here: ruclips.net/video/Nb88napQG7E/видео.html
Hi there, yes you could implement workflow in this app using Power Automate. You would need to use the Dataverse connection & actions to work with the data processed through the app. Hope this helps! Thank you for watching!
Hi there, unfortunately this cannot be done with the "out-of-the-box" functionality. You would have to customize the app using Microsoft Power Automate / Power Apps to implement a push notification. I've added this idea to my tutorial backlog as I've had a lot of comments on whether its possible to do this. I'll be sure to come back & reply when I get around to creating & posting this video. Also be sure to subscribe so you can receive a notification once its live. Thank for the question & for watching!
Hi Raymond, unfortunately you cannot create a Gantt chart through this app. This app is a lightweight project management app that essentially just tracks work items that will drive completion of higher level Milestones or work packages. That being said, the app can be customized through Microsoft Power Apps which requires a licence and the know how. Additionally, you could also connect a third party analytics tool such as Power BI to the underlying data for reporting and visualization. Hope this helps and thank you for watching.
Hi Rick, I’m not entirely sure what the rationale was for not being able to use the sample apps (including Milestones) in a private channel. From a technical perspective, it is confirmed that you’re unable to in the sample app “Known Limitations” documentation. See link below. Private channels inherently restrict visibility into the members which is implicit in the term “private” and the apps need to be able to access members to function properly. Too bad, as there are probably some legitimate use cases to add this to a private channel! Limitations: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/known-issues-limitations Channel Visibility: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/group?view=graph-rest-1.0&preserve-view=true#group-visibility-options
@@LuiIacobellis . thanks for your reply. FYI. I setup a team in MS TEAM. Inside this team I have several project channels which I set to private because I am supposed to share project info with only those members in each project. So now MS TEAM came out with Milestone app, I would like to add this Milestone into each channel to track each project's progress. Looks like I cannot add the Milestone app into those private channel. Fine! Next I was hoping that if I add the Milestone app at the team level and then assign members to each project in the Milestone app, but now end up everybody who is not a member of the Milestone app is able to view everything in there, which is not supposed to. So I am totally stuck both sides.
There is definitely some overlap between this app and Planner. I have a blog post that summarizes some of the differences: luigiiacobellis.com/introduction-to-the-microsoft-teams-milestones-app/
Hi Raza, It seems as though Microsoft pulled the activity log feature from the app at some point after I recorded this tutorial. I'm not entirely sure why. When I try to reinstall the app, it still shows as version 1 with no incremental updates. You could attempt to add it in to the app yourself if you were familiar with how to use Microsoft Power Apps. Hope this helps!
Unfortunately this app doesn't integrate with Tasks By Planner and To Do, or To Do or Outlook. However, given that this is a sample app built using Microsoft Power Apps, users can customize it themselves. For example you could create a flow to sync tasks across those apps into this one.
You can also integrate directly with Planner / Tasks. Open the app in Power Apps personal app on Teams and you will have access to the source code. Add a "Tasks connector" to create your own extensions / integrations with Planner. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to @t
Hi Cynthia, at this time you cannot copy an old task to create a new one. The app is still in preview phase however, so it is possible that Microsoft will introduce such functionality later. Also, this app can be customized through Microsoft Power Apps, so someone with the know how could add such functionality themselves.
Why did Microsoft create this as a separate App? Wouldn’t it have been better to add the milestone capability to their existing Planner App, so that plannner tasks can be assigned to milestones?
Hi Rob, Microsoft has released several "sample" app that are built using its Power Platform (i.e. Power Apps & Power Automate). This is one of them. These sample apps were primarily built to showcase their Power Platform & more so how it can be used to extend the functionality of Microsoft Teams. To the best of my knowledge, this app (along with the others) don't have a roadmap & will not be enhanced by Microsoft. I do agree with you that perhaps adding a milestone layer to Tasks By Planner & To Do would be a good feature.
As Luigi mentioned, these are sample apps that are primarily focused on showcasing the types of applications you can create with Power Platform - Microsoft's low code application platform. Once installed, one has full access to the source code of these apps and you can customize and extend these, including integration with tasks / planner. In fact, one of the other sample apps called Issue Reporting (aka.ms/TeamsIssueReporting) is exactly that. It is a front end interface to manage issues reported by first line workers. Back end is based completely on tasks. You can take the "recipes" from Issue Reporting app and apply it to Milestones to integrate with Planner. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to @t
This is a great question. This app wasn't published as a replacement to Tasks by Planner and To Do. It was really published to showcase the extensibility of Microsoft Teams when using the Power Platform. After testing it, the only feature present here that isn't in Tasks By Planner and To Do is the fact that this app has a dashboard built in that displays percentage complete. As a result of that, perhaps if I ever wanted to manage a project or deliverable and have some minor reporting be avaibale without consuming effort to create, I may consider this app. However, personally I don't see enough differentiation between this and Tasks by Planner and To Do to persuade me to make this my primary task and or project management app in Teams.
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I just have to create simple project management using the MERN stack. thank u for this video. now I have a basic idea of what I should implement. unlike other tools, this is the most simple one.thank u again
You're welcome and thank you for watching
Thanks for the tutorial. I was really glad to see this much-needed project management feature incorporated into Teams.
You're very welcome!
Did Microsoft remove this app? Or change the name? I don't see it available.
Thank you for the overview of the Milestones App. Question: Are there any dashboard creation options that link to the Milestones app?
You're very welcome. Unfortunately you cannot modify the default dashboard unless you do it in Power Apps. You could also connect the data source to Microsoft PowerBI to generate your own dashboards. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
Useful intro. I would recommend to zoom in on your screen a little more as it is difficult to see specific fields in your demo (even when I expanded video to full screen).
Hi there, thank you for the feedback. At the time I recorded this tutorial, my production skills were rather immature. I definitely utilize zoom for all of my more recent tutorials. Thank you for watching!
Hi Lui! First of all thanks for the explanition! It is really nice. I want ask this: in my dashboard in the columm Status, Category, Priority, din't appears anything and i created them in the app. Can you help me? Thanks!
Hi Jose, thank you for the kind words. I took a look at the app documentation and I did not see any recorded issues where the columns are missing from the dashboard. For reference, this is where these might be logged: github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-milestones/issues I also haven't seen any other users on forums cite this issue. As a result, I'd suggest removing the app from your team and re-adding it. I hope this helps and thank you for watching.
Thank you! Question is there a way to export these projects?
Hi Allison,, at this time you cannot export projects in the milestones app. The app is still in preview phase however, so it is possible that Microsoft will introduce such functionality later. Also, this app can be customized through Microsoft Power Apps, so someone with the know how could add such functionality themselves.
All the data in the Milestones app is stored in the Dataverse for Teams DB that is provisioned with the sample app. You can directly access this data via UI or connectors from flow. You can also report on this data from Power BI. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/customize-sample-apps
Hi there, I wanted to let you know that I've created a tutorial that demonstrates how to extract data from this app. The link to that tutorial is here: ruclips.net/video/Nb88napQG7E/видео.html
Thank you Lui, quick and easy!
You're very welcome Ajaysingh
Nice introduction. Is it just me or is the "+ work item" missing in Milestones? And do you think we will see integration with to do in a future version?
Hi Ole, thanks for the question. I just double checked my app across several channels in different teams and I can see the "+ work item" button. I'd suggest uninstalling the app & reinstalling. As for integration with Tasks by Planner & To Do, I doubt it. Microsoft really built these apps to showcase the power platform and the ability to extend teams. Users may be able to add this integration themselves with Power Apps.
Now, if only this app was merged with the Planner app and we’d have a pretty descent project management app.
Totally agree. Integration with Planner and To Do would definitely make this app much more useful!
As I have noted in a couple of other replies, this sample app can be extended by the installer to integrate with planner. You can refer to another sample app called Issue Reporting (aka.ms/TeamsIssueReporting) to see how to integrate a Power App with Planner. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/customize-sample-apps
@@navjotmarwaha Thank you 🙏
Nice tutorial but it is difficult to see even on my Apple Thunderbolt monitor. Thanks!
Hi Desert, sorry about that. I have since corrected my approach to recording to ensure the highest possible quality. I appreciate the feedback. Also, nice monitor!
I don't know if you can help, in New Teams this app is not available, on "old" teams when I add it says an error occured. This is a problem with apps that can disappear taking with them valuable time and information you enter.
I've noticed this too but have not found a resolution. The new Teams app is still in preview but will be rolling out to the public soon. It is also lagging support for all features found in the old app. This may be the reason. Hope this helps!
Hi Lui, A question I have if you dont mind answering...I've added Milestones to a channel in New Teams, but there is no left pane showing "+New Project", the only option is the right pane with "+New Work Item".....what am I missing ?
Is it posssible to create gant chart from workitems of projects and load it forexample excel?
Hi Kimmo, unfortunately you cannot create a Gannt chart from the Milestones app. This app isn't meant to be a robust project management app such as MS Project or even as detailed as Tasks by Planner & To Do. Rather, this app is meant to demonstrate the type of apps that can built for use in Teams when built on the Power Platform (i.e. Power Apps, Power Automate).
In the May 2021 version I don't have an Activity Log - has this been removed or is there a way to add it?
Hi Mari, apologies for the delay. It seems as though Microsoft pulled the activity log feature from the app at some point after I recorded this tutorial. I'm not entirely sure why. When I try to reinstall the app, it still shows as version 1 with no incremental updates. You could attempt to add it in to the app yourself if you were familiar with how to use Microsoft Power Apps. Hope this helps!
Thank you, great tutorial!!
You're very welcome Marcel!
thanks for the tips... very handy
You're very welcome
Can you assign a work item to more than one individual?
Hi Vinh, thanks for the question. Unfortunately using the out of the box configuration of this app, you are only able to assign a work item to 1 individual. That being said, if you are licensed to use Microsoft Power Apps & have the necessary experience, you can customize the app to allow assignment to multiple individuals.
Can this work also when used with external companies or is it only feasible within an organisation? Thanks
Hi there, this is used within Microsoft Teams. There is no other way to use it. As such, if you wanted to permit external users to access it, you would need to invite them into a Team in your organizations Microsoft Teams environment (as a guest using a guest account or other). Once they are setup with access in your organization's team, they'd be able to access this app. Hope this helps!
Se puede usar para seguimiento de okrs?
Objectives and key results is a broad term and can be presented in many different ways. It would depend on how you structure them. Given most OKRs are more repeatable business metrics, I'd say this tool is unlikely to work for that use case. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
I can see this as another view for Todo and planner.
Hi Rick, that is interesting. Based on my testing of the milestones app, there is no integration with Tasks by Planner & To Do. Tasks created there wouldn't show up in the Milestone app & milestones won't appear in Tasks by Planner & To Do. I think I would use this to help me manage simple projects with others where I want to be able to show some basic stats on progress. Personally, I think Tasks by Planner & To Do is still my go to tool for managing work in Teams!
Once you create some milestones, can you display these in list sorted by date?
Yes you can click on the date column to use a quick sort function. Hope this helps!
@@LuiIacobellis , thanks for replying. However, I don't mean work items, I mean the milestones. I only see them in the Milestone Status part of the user interface and there's no date column. I must be doing something wrong.
Hi Lui! I was looking for similar feature in Teams, but with better vision. Maybe something like a Gant chart. Any suggestions?
Hi Jordane, there are some other apps that you can use within Teams that provide enhanced project management functionality. In my experience most of these require a licence and/or additional costs. Microsoft Project is one example. To use it within a Team however, users would need to be licenced to use it. Other third party apps that are available for use within Teams include Asana, Smartsheet and Zoho Projects. I do have a tutorial on using Zoho Project within Teams. Its somewhat lengthy but you can review the timeline and check out the GANTT Chart functionality. Hope this helps & thanks for watching. ruclips.net/video/UrPjWzvRUro/видео.html
How can I create a copy of an existing project instead each time creating a new project from scratch?
Hi @Michael Kt Based on my testing of this app, you are not able to create a new project as a copy of an existing project. Unfortunately, you have to create it from scratch every time. Note that however, this app can be customized using Microsoft Power Apps. Someone with knowledge of Power Apps could add this functionality to the app. Thanks for the question!
@@LuiIacobellis thanks for the response. That’s one functionality that unfortunately will prevent my team from adopting this app. I’m hoping this gets added natively instead of trying to get a powerapps guru to add it.
Hi how Can I integrate the tasks assigned to a team member to planner?
Hi Edward, unfortunately this sample app doesn't support integration with Tasks by Planner and To Do in its current iteration. This app can however, be extended and customized through Microsoft Power Apps. It would require a paid licence to Power Apps and the know how to do so. Thanks for the question!
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Milestone cannot work in private channel. In a public channel, everyone can see all the projects in the Milestone even though they are not a member of the project. Where is the privacy? This really sucks!
Hi Rick, I’m not entirely sure what the rationale was for not being able to use the sample apps (including Milestones) in a private channel. From a technical perspective, it is confirmed that you’re unable to in the sample app “Known Limitations” documentation. See link below. Private channels inherently restrict visibility into the members which is implicit in the term “private” and the apps need to be able to access members to function properly. Too bad, as there are probably some legitimate use cases to add this to a private channel!
Limitations:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/known-issues-limitations
Channel Visibility:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/group?view=graph-rest-1.0&preserve-view=true#group-visibility-options
How do extract data of work items from Milestone to excel or other power apps?
Hi. To export the data to excel you would need to access the app from the Microsoft Teams Power App app. This gives you an option to view the underlying data where you can copy & paste into excel (I don't think you can export from here). To access the data for connection to another Power App, you would need to connect to the underlying data table in Dataverse. I will be posting a video showing this & will update this comment once live.
Hi there, I wanted to let you know that I've created a tutorial that demonstrates how to extract data from this app. The link to that tutorial is here: ruclips.net/video/Nb88napQG7E/видео.html
Can you setup cloud flows with power automate?
Hi there, yes you could implement workflow in this app using Power Automate. You would need to use the Dataverse connection & actions to work with the data processed through the app. Hope this helps! Thank you for watching!
is there any way that we can push notifications for the tasks assigned to the individuals?
Hi there, unfortunately this cannot be done with the "out-of-the-box" functionality. You would have to customize the app using Microsoft Power Automate / Power Apps to implement a push notification. I've added this idea to my tutorial backlog as I've had a lot of comments on whether its possible to do this. I'll be sure to come back & reply when I get around to creating & posting this video. Also be sure to subscribe so you can receive a notification once its live. Thank for the question & for watching!
Hello, can a Gant chart view be created through this app? I can’t find the functionality
Hi Raymond, unfortunately you cannot create a Gantt chart through this app. This app is a lightweight project management app that essentially just tracks work items that will drive completion of higher level Milestones or work packages. That being said, the app can be customized through Microsoft Power Apps which requires a licence and the know how. Additionally, you could also connect a third party analytics tool such as Power BI to the underlying data for reporting and visualization. Hope this helps and thank you for watching.
Looks like it cannot work for private channel. Why?
Hi Rick, I’m not entirely sure what the rationale was for not being able to use the sample apps (including Milestones) in a private channel. From a technical perspective, it is confirmed that you’re unable to in the sample app “Known Limitations” documentation. See link below. Private channels inherently restrict visibility into the members which is implicit in the term “private” and the apps need to be able to access members to function properly. Too bad, as there are probably some legitimate use cases to add this to a private channel!
Limitations:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/known-issues-limitations
Channel Visibility:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/group?view=graph-rest-1.0&preserve-view=true#group-visibility-options
@@LuiIacobellis . thanks for your reply. FYI. I setup a team in MS TEAM. Inside this team I have several project channels which I set to private because I am supposed to share project info with only those members in each project. So now MS TEAM came out with Milestone app, I would like to add this Milestone into each channel to track each project's progress. Looks like I cannot add the Milestone app into those private channel. Fine! Next I was hoping that if I add the Milestone app at the team level and then assign members to each project in the Milestone app, but now end up everybody who is not a member of the Milestone app is able to view everything in there, which is not supposed to. So I am totally stuck both sides.
@@rickdee888 I feel your frustration. Hopefully Microsoft will find a way to expose these apps & additional functionalities in private channels soon!
Doesn't Teams Project do all that Milestone App does and extra? What does Milestone App provide that is not in Teams Project App?
There is definitely some overlap between this app and Planner. I have a blog post that summarizes some of the differences: luigiiacobellis.com/introduction-to-the-microsoft-teams-milestones-app/
Thank you
You're very welcome
How to geth the Activity Log, as i tried but can't find anywhere in the Milestone
Hi Raza, It seems as though Microsoft pulled the activity log feature from the app at some point after I recorded this tutorial. I'm not entirely sure why. When I try to reinstall the app, it still shows as version 1 with no incremental updates. You could attempt to add it in to the app yourself if you were familiar with how to use Microsoft Power Apps. Hope this helps!
I have installed this and tested it out but it doesn't seem to integrate with Planner, ToDo or Outlook on any way. :(
Unfortunately this app doesn't integrate with Tasks By Planner and To Do, or To Do or Outlook. However, given that this is a sample app built using Microsoft Power Apps, users can customize it themselves. For example you could create a flow to sync tasks across those apps into this one.
You can also integrate directly with Planner / Tasks. Open the app in Power Apps personal app on Teams and you will have access to the source code. Add a "Tasks connector" to create your own extensions / integrations with Planner. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to @t
Can you copy over the setup for an old task into a new one?
Hi Cynthia, at this time you cannot copy an old task to create a new one. The app is still in preview phase however, so it is possible that Microsoft will introduce such functionality later. Also, this app can be customized through Microsoft Power Apps, so someone with the know how could add such functionality themselves.
Why did Microsoft create this as a separate App? Wouldn’t it have been better to add the milestone capability to their existing Planner App, so that plannner tasks can be assigned to milestones?
Hi Rob, Microsoft has released several "sample" app that are built using its Power Platform (i.e. Power Apps & Power Automate). This is one of them. These sample apps were primarily built to showcase their Power Platform & more so how it can be used to extend the functionality of Microsoft Teams. To the best of my knowledge, this app (along with the others) don't have a roadmap & will not be enhanced by Microsoft. I do agree with you that perhaps adding a milestone layer to Tasks By Planner & To Do would be a good feature.
As Luigi mentioned, these are sample apps that are primarily focused on showcasing the types of applications you can create with Power Platform - Microsoft's low code application platform. Once installed, one has full access to the source code of these apps and you can customize and extend these, including integration with tasks / planner. In fact, one of the other sample apps called Issue Reporting (aka.ms/TeamsIssueReporting) is exactly that. It is a front end interface to manage issues reported by first line workers. Back end is based completely on tasks. You can take the "recipes" from Issue Reporting app and apply it to Milestones to integrate with Planner. To learn more about how to access the data or to customize these apps, refer to @t
Why would you this over planner?
This is a great question. This app wasn't published as a replacement to Tasks by Planner and To Do. It was really published to showcase the extensibility of Microsoft Teams when using the Power Platform. After testing it, the only feature present here that isn't in Tasks By Planner and To Do is the fact that this app has a dashboard built in that displays percentage complete. As a result of that, perhaps if I ever wanted to manage a project or deliverable and have some minor reporting be avaibale without consuming effort to create, I may consider this app. However, personally I don't see enough differentiation between this and Tasks by Planner and To Do to persuade me to make this my primary task and or project management app in Teams.
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