New in Microsoft Loop. Tasks, Kanban & Planner sync

The Kanban component arrived in Loop and many of you said, "great, but does it integrate with any of my other Microsoft 365 task management tools?"
Let's talk about that.

0:00 Intro
0:35 Task list and Kanban view
1:54 Kanban view and Planner sync
2:49 Assigned to me in Planner
3:10 Assigned to me in To Do
3:33 Planner and Tasks in Teams
4:34 Compare Planner component with Kanban task view
5:49 Predictions

[yourcoach]

Awesome content as normal Darrell, and great to see the Loop Tasks being expanded into a more broader Kanban / Board View! 😀

[NickForsberg]

I tried giving loop a serious try but I did not see the real value of it. It's just another tool that overlaps with everything else

[JacobAnawalt]

Good insight. I was hoping you'd talk on the actual Kanban Board component because I don't see its stuff linking to Planner.

I'm starting to pick up on the trouble you may have trying to treat buckets like kanban stages. You can drag from one to another, but do you really move stuff from left to right on all your buckets? From Technical to Design? Plus these items are tasks, not projects.
I've also discovered that from Planner you have more control over a task's state. Instead of done or not, it is not started, in progress, and completed. Pretty similar to a Kanban To do, In Progress, and Done.

[cvkealey]

Wow... this really blurs the line between Loop and Planner. When MS announced "roster plans", I guess this is what they planned (no pun intended) for them.

After doing a little testing myself, it seems like when you use the actual "kanban" component, it *does not* sync with Planner/other task apps. But, if you use the "tasks" component, it does. I can't imagine that's how Microsoft designed these to work. "Here are these two things that do practically the same thing, but one of them ALSO syncs to this other location/app and the other does not?" I see a lot of people getting confused by this.

[unsolveddilemnas]

Hi Darrell, do you recommend any solution that enables to aggregate all tasks created in different meeting loop notes for instance in a single (master) planner?
Look at it from a Design manager perspective who wants to keep track of all assigned tasks in one master tracker.

[deckard]

Hi, can fields displayed on a Kanban board tile be changed? So that it's not limited to the title, owner, and date fields, but includes others visible only in the details.

[dsaffsafdaf]

If you cant see the planner Task: Create a new Task Board, not an kanban board. :)
The Taskboard can be switched to a kanban view

[annieskelding]

so in the world of very frustrating: if you use the page template for the Kanban board it DOES NOT give you the TASK APPS integration. Or, if it does, I can't figure out how to get there.

[moltobene]

What kind of version do you use? I can't see the new bucket and views :(
Also it would be really important, that we can change the zoom or expanding of the loop page. Working with a big monitor the fonts and widths are too big.

[anmol-gupta]

I want to use Loop for managing personal tasks and goals. Is there a way to create private plans and auto-assign tasks to self?

[MrMaraxman]

All these are great! But my only interest is if the new Planner finally fixed very frustrating Comments. I mean not being able to mention someone there so he gets notified. Do you see improvement please?

[koyotecow]

Very week version of Azure DevOps. Especially if you want yo to manage portfolio of projects ADO is the way to go.

[BudweiserJr]

Its pretty janky right now. Persistent meetings will carry the tasks from the loop if you started it from the SERIES. If you do them in a note by note basis, they create a new planner each meeting.

Should you mess up...there is no way to cut and paste the original task list back into the notes and have it sync...it will create another planner. You can't paste into the notes as a loop component, either.

[richardwalker_]

Tables, could they be based on SharePoint lists? Databases, like N*tion?

[Nic_Wood]

Loop files currently live in the creators one drive? I cant get the tasks to link to a planner, did you move it to a group first ?
Great and very entertating content as per usual

[Metzanine]

If you start tasks in Loop does it create a new plan in planner? If so, can you tidy up and make those tasks part of an existing plan?

[YusufMumtaz]

Any idea when this will be fully available for MSA accounts?

[dominiclaplante]

Can we add a task in the loop page associated to an actual Team Channel/ Tasks Bcuket ?

[milesbissay]

great content can we see the content more then your body