Labels column on the My Tasks grid view in Microsoft Planner

Question

I use Microsoft Planner to organize the entirey of my work at my olrganization, this includes myriad plans, teams, teammates and tasks. We use labels to provide important context for these tasks and I rely heavily on the My Tasks view to see and organzie everything I'm working on from all of my various plans.

I would really like to be able to see labels and possibly other custom columns in the grid view in the My Tasks area. Is this possible at all, even with a pro license? If not, I would like to make it known that it would be a very valuable addition.

Answer 1

Hi @Brianna Healy,

According to your concern, My Tasks currently provides these capabilities including filtering by due date, priority and progress, showing, hiding, and reordering the existing columns. Unfortunately, it does not list labels or custom fields as available columns in My Tasks. 

Premium plans do add advanced capabilities such as custom fields, but those are documented as plan-level premium features, which means premium helps inside eligible plans, but it does not currently make labels/custom fields appear in the unified My Tasks.

What you’re describing would be genuinely useful for anyone managing work across many plans, teams, and task sources. Seeing Labels (and ideally custom columns) in My Tasks would make the consolidated view much more actionable for triage, prioritization, and personal workflow management. That's why I'm optimistic about future enhancements even if this option is not available today.

Because of that, I’ve shared your feedback internally and I also strongly recommend you share your feedback directly with the Microsoft engineering team via Microsoft 365 Feedback Hub > Send Feedback and describe your suggestion in detail. The product team actively reviews customer suggestions to identify areas for improvement and prioritize future updates. Your input does play a vital role in shaping the future of Microsoft products.

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Answer 2

In the current Planner “My Tasks” experience, labels and other custom columns are not available as columns in the Grid view.

The documented options for organizing and focusing tasks in My Tasks are:

• Board view: group tasks visually by plan, progress, due date, or priority.
• Grid view: scan task details in a table, with support for:
  • Filters (due date, priority, progress)
  • Sorting in Grid view
  • Showing, hiding, and reordering existing columns

Labels and arbitrary custom fields are not listed as supported columns or grouping/filtering options in My Tasks Grid view. Labels can be used within individual plans (for example, in Board/Grid views of a specific plan), and Planner in general supports filtering and grouping by labels at the plan level, but this does not extend to adding a Labels column in the consolidated My Tasks Grid view.

To influence future capabilities such as exposing labels or custom columns in My Tasks, feedback needs to be submitted through the standard Microsoft feedback channels (for example, from within Teams/Planner using the in-product feedback option), where it can be reviewed for potential inclusion in future updates.

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References:

• Manage your tasks with My Tasks and My Day
• Create a plan in Microsoft Planner
• Manage your Personal Tasks with Planner in Teams
• Manage your Team's plans with Planner in Teams