Planner Default View

Planner Default View

Help you save your default "Group By" view selection in Microsoft Planner web application

What is Planner Default View?
'Planner Default View' is a Chrome extension designed to enhance user experience on Microsoft Planner. It allows you to set default 'group by' option for your tasks, remembers your selection, and organizes tasks accordingly upon reload. It also comes with new features like coloring planner cards, and other UI changes & bug fixes with each update.
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Stats
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.11 (18)
Version: 1.0.0.9 (Last updated: 2020-03-12)
Creation date: 2020-03-10
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • https://tasks.office.com/*
  • storage
Size: 111.62K
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Summary

Planner Default View extension sets Default Group By option for MS Planner plans and allows you to select your default group by from the extension icon popup.

after selecting your default "Group By" and reload MS Planner web app, Planner Default View will remember your previous selection and organize your tasks accordingly

Whats new in 1.0.0.9?

  • Support coloring planner cards after Microsoft changed the app structure in latest update

Whats new in 1.0.0.8?

  • Bug fixes
  • UI Changes
  • Coloring your tasks according to labels color - very useful

Credits to Marty Harris for sharing the code to color the Planner cards which I have implemented in Planner Default View There is a separate extension published by Marty Harris called "Colourful Planner" you can find it in chrome web store

User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Solves a functionality problem that users believe Microsoft should have already addressed
  • Coloring feature for tasks is found useful and helpful by many
  • Ability to set default view on Planner is appreciated
Cons
  • Does not work consistently for all users
  • Some users find the color functionality to be intrusive and would like it to be made optional
  • Does not work for non-English versions of Planner
Most mentioned
  • Request to make coloring optional
  • Desire for the extension to work in other languages
  • The need for a 'filter' feature or ability to set different defaults for different projects
Recent reviews
Hi, thanks and appreciate for this feature. However when I was adding this, it prompted stating this extension can Read and chagne your data on tasks.office.com and read your browsing history. Could you please let me know if this is shared with you or any others my data or just used to change default view?
by N B N B, 2022-01-19

Can't believe this isn't built in to Planner already. I am a strict "sort by due date" person and it was driving me crazy that I needed to toggle to that view each time I opened planner. Would love to have it so that I could set different defaults for different projects. I also saw in another thread that you were considering making the color functionality optional. I cannot use the extension this way, as most of my tasks do not have tags and I cannot read the black text on a grey background (it is not enough contrast for my eyes). I *could* tag all of my tasks a lighter color, but that would really slow down my productivity. Either make it optional or switch the default task block color back to white. Thank you!

It's simple and great. Very useful but: 1. colouring should be optional feature 2. when task doesn't have label plugin sets gray clour to it, it could be as original - with no colour 3. its doesn't work when the Planner is in different than english language, I use polish. but I think it's easy solution - order of options in polish is this same as in english, I think in every lang is this same. so instead of selecting option by text you should selecting it by index
by Arkadiusz Malczewski Arkadiusz Malczewski, 2021-02-16
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Safety
Risk impact

Planner Default View is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Planner Default View if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Planner Default View has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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