Archive, Delete or Hide Completed List/Task
Some of the lists may have all completed task and the list may not be valid anymore. Can there be option to archive or hide a list? Some recurring items which have over dozens of completed records, should be archived too.
Puneet Ghanshani
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Tyler Bishop
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Seeing the completed items in the same list clutters it, then I have to take the extra time to get rid of those items.
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Isobel WS
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It would be good to be able to set a retention policy on Tasks folders. It looked like I could do it by creating a new folder under my email archive folder through the desktop Outlook client, setting it to contain tasks, and immediately assigning a retention policy. When I went back to the folder though, the retention policy settings were gone. I'm still hoping it will use the parent policy settings *cross fingers*
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Anon
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Or the option to set up an auto delete after a set period of time. (Ex: Completed tasks delete after 90 days, unless otherwise indicated.)
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Anonymous
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I would love to be able to delete all completed tasks from my Tasks list without having to do it one at a time.
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Joe Mills
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This feature would be useful. I regularly refer to old lists, but would like to hide them until needed again.
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Anonymous
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The list (of lists) in MS Teams view is huge as there is no ability to group let alone archive
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Chris
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Archive. Such a simple feature. Apparently too hard for MS to figure out?
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Nick
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I resorted to creating a "done" folder and dragging completed lists in there. Archiving would be really useful.
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Nathan
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Any update on this?
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Renaldo
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It is a must have feature.
It is ease manage complete list/task and it will allow reuse of them. -
Anonymous
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for recurring tasks an auto delete function would be nice ("delete after xxx recurrances/weeks etc.")
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Laurie
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I have a lot of recurring tasks and it makes no sense that they just keep piling up at the bottom of my lists once completed. Once you have complete it, the task should just move to the next date.
For other tasks, every list should have options to delete or hide completed tasks. Then you can choose if you want to be able to see the tasks that were completed for a specific project or keep a list current and clean.
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Scott Jones
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Microsoft, let's go. This is embarrassing. I am in project management and have fifty projects open because I can't archive any projects.
And to those who don't use this with other team members, I assume hiding works? However, if you're like me and have multiple users viewing tasks, we need an archive ability. I can only move lists around and not move under any other list.
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spirit
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you can hide completed tasks so it shouldn't matter — but there should be an option to remove completed tasks from showing up in the search...
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Anonymous
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Still Waiting for Archive or Hide feature
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Rommel Mathew Veranga Enguero commented
This is very easy to solve. Just create a new group and name it "Completed". Then drag all lists you want to hide/archive.
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Zeokat
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Please, add this feature. Users are waiting for this a lon long long time.
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Micheál
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If you have a list with too many completed tasks, could be good to just start a new list with the same name, move all your open tasks over and then delete the old list. Maybe note down any key tasks you completed any reviews your have with managers.
This could be a task for the end of the year, or start of a new year.
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Francesca
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That's great idea. No one wants to delete history.
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H Pera
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This request has been under review for nearly 2 years now. Maybe any update from MS?