Another highly requested feature in Planner has been the ability to provide a mechanism to planner users to manage tasks notifications so it’s not required anymore to enable notifications and subscriptions for all the Plan members:
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Under Planner settings there is a new Notifications option that will allow to access the new notifications settings in Planner:
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Each user can configure the following notifications in a Plan:
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A notification is sent to the user each time someone assigns a task to him/her.
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A notification is sent when a task assigned to the user is late, due today our due in the next 7 days.
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Notifications can be sent by e-mail or by means of a push notification to the Planner App. For instace, the following screenshot shows an example of the e-mail received when there are tasks that are upcoming:
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In the case of due tasks, the following screenshot shows the e-mail sent by Planner to the user.
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