How to Track Time Against Microsoft Planner Tasks

Planner time tracking connects a time tracking tool to your Microsoft Planner plans, so hours are recorded against each task and roll up to the project they belong to. Planner handles tasks and progress. Lucen Track adds the hours, lets you log time from inside Planner, and reports the cost of each project.

What is Planner time tracking?

Planner time tracking means recording the hours spent on each Microsoft Planner task, so the time appears in reports for the project and client it belongs to. Planner shows what needs doing and who owns it. A connected time tracking tool records how long the work took and what it cost.

How do you connect Planner to Lucen Track?

Connecting takes two steps:

1. Connect Track to Microsoft Planner. Track brings in all your tasks automatically.
2. Keep working in either tool. When you change something in Track or Microsoft Planner, the change updates in both.

How do you log time on a Planner task?

Lucen Track gives you two ways to log time without leaving Planner:

• Register work hours in one click from the Microsoft Planner web app.
• Start and stop timers right in Microsoft Planner.

Each time you track in Planner, Track updates your timesheet, which is the record of hours logged for each person and task. The hours are then available for reporting.

Try Track for free and connect Planner. Lucen Track's 14-day trial runs on the Premium plan, which includes the Planner integration, and needs no credit card. Start your free trial and connect Planner to see it with your own tasks.

How do project managers keep Planner hours current?

We recommend logging time on a task as soon as the work is done, then checking the tracked time on each task during your weekly review. From Starter up, Track can also manage project budgets and monitor progress alongside time tracking, in real time, and monetary budgets are available on Premium. Budget overruns surface early, so you can act before a project goes over.

How do senior PMs and PMO leads report Planner time across projects?

Once time is logged against Planner tasks, Track captures that activity and turns it into reports. On Premium and Enterprise, Track can show labour costs and margin by client and project, and connect to Power BI. For an overview of Track for consulting firms, see Lucen Track for consultants.

What does Lucen Track cost, and which plan includes Planner?

The Microsoft Planner integration is included on Starter, Premium and Enterprise. It is not part of the Free plan. The cost and margin reporting, billable rates and monetary budgets above are on Premium and Enterprise.

The full Planner setup is on the Lucen Track for Microsoft Planner page.

Ready to log time on your Planner tasks? Try Track for free and connect Planner to see it with your own tasks. The 14-day trial runs on the Premium plan, which includes Planner, and no credit card is needed. Start your free trial