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seoDescription: Learn how to automate recurring tasks for your team using Microsoft Planner and Power Automate. Improve team efficiency and track progress seamlessly.
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title: Do you automate recurring tasks with Microsoft Planner and Power Automate?
seoDescription: Learn how to automate recurring tasks for your team using
Microsoft Planner and Power Automate. Improve team efficiency and track
progress seamlessly.
uri: microsoft-planner-for-tasks
authors:
- title: Ulysses Maclaren
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### Why Use Microsoft Planner and Power Automate?
### Why use Microsoft Planner and Power Automate?

By using Microsoft Planner and Power Automate, you can streamline recurring task management:
* **Microsoft Planner** organizes and assigns tasks to team members, showing progress and status.
* **Power Automate** adds automation, creating tasks at the right time, notifying team members, and syncing with other platforms like Outlook and Teams.

### How to Set It Up in Three Steps
### How to set it up in 3 steps

1. **Create a Plan in Microsoft Planner**
* Ensure your Microsoft Teams setup has a dedicated team for task assignments.
* Link the newly created plan to the appropriate team.
* This gives you an overview of tasks and their current status.
1. **Select or create a Team in Microsoft Teams**
* Ideally it has all the people you want to manage these recurring tasks for.

2. **Set Up Recurring Tasks**
2. **Create a Plan in Microsoft Planner**
* Use Microsoft Planner’s built-in recurrence feature to create tasks that repeat daily, weekly, or at any specified interval.
* Example: Assign a task for team members to complete every weekday, such as sending a status update.
* Example: Assign a task for team members to complete every Monday, such as sending a status update.

3. **Automate with Power Automate (Optional)**
* Go beyond Planner’s capabilities by using Power Automate to generate tasks dynamically.
* Customize task notifications to be sent to team members’ Outlook or Teams, ensuring they get reminders without needing to check Planner continuously.

### Benefits of Automation
### Benefits of using Microsoft Planner

* **Centralized Management**: Track and monitor the workload of your team from one place.
* **Timely Notifications**: Ensure team members get timely reminders where they usually work, like in their Outlook inbox or Teams notifications.
* **Visibility for Managers**: Managers can easily see overdue tasks and assess team performance.

### Example Scenario
### Additional benefits of using Power Automate as well

**Recurring Task Setup for Team Visibility**
Imagine needing a daily reminder for the marketing team to post updates. Instead of relying on each member to remember:
* **Microsoft Planner**: Creates a recurring task for “Post Daily Update.”
* **Power Automate**: Sends an email and a Teams notification when the task is due, ensuring no one forgets.
**Timely Notifications**: Ensure team members get timely reminders where they usually work, like in their Outlook inbox or Teams notifications.
* **Reduce noise**: Tasks are only visibile in your Planner when they're supposed to be worked on, or if they're overdue.

`youtube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/5OUQZAvxZuA?ecver=1`
**Video: How to Automate Recurring Tasks Using Microsoft Planner and Power Automate (9 min)**

By automating task management, you improve accountability and can quickly identify if any tasks are slipping through the cracks. Adopt this method to keep your team organized and efficient.
By centralising and automating task management, you improve accountability and can quickly identify if any tasks are slipping through the cracks. Adopt this method to keep your team organized and efficient.

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