Is there a way to pull MS Planner Tasks into Jira Projects?

[Cloud Control Limited]

Hello,

We've migrated from Trello to MS Planner, because, well, it's included as part of Office 365 and fully integrated with Outlook and OneDrive, as well as administered with Azure AD. We liked Trello but we had to make that move.

What we want to do now is use MS Planner as our Kanban board where we put ideas and tasks more informally, but then be able to pull the Task name, Due Date, Start Date, Priority, Progress, Comments, Attachments, Checklist, etc etc all over into a Jira Issue... click a button "Move to Jira Issue"... select the Issue Type (this way we can define the MS Planner task as a bug, or a task, etc)... and then be off and running with Jira driving the issue to resolution. We would then want to be able to drag the tasks around the Jira Kanban in order to be able to see and keep track of the state/status of each task and have the increased power and flexibility that Jira offers to manage the project from that point... but while still updating the MS Planner task... two-way sync between Planner tasks and Jira Issues.

We might let almost anyone in the company post to the MS Planner Kanban to get ideas up there and discussed, but once it is imported or "sucked in" to the Jira Kanban, it's now serious, funded, and time for the focused team [only] to get things done.

We basically want to use MS Planner for the "napkin" and Jira for the "blueprint and construction checklist".

Is this possible?

Thanks,

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[George Tsaousidis]

Is there anything vice-versa? i.e. pushing out a JIRA item to MS Teams Planner?

[Thomas Burke]

Yes, that is my particular use case George.

I was going to try with PowerShell modules Jira is stable and I can only assume MS would be ,  but if there was a tool to install, easier.

[Palaniswamy, Dhananjayan]

Well, it's an old thread and it's probably a long shot. But, I'm wondering if anyone manage to success with this? :)

[László Bartha]

I have the very same question. Any feedback or update from the original thread would be appreciated! :)

[Nichola Kerr]

Following up on this one? Any idea's? I have a Dev team that uses JIRA and a Business team using MS Planner for all other work... It would be great to combine the two! Thanks

[SilkeS]

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Thanks!

[Brian Hill]

First place I'd start looking at is Exalate for IssueSync: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213645/exalate-jira-issue-sync-more?hosting=cloud&tab=overview noting it has Azure DevOps hooks, but would want to dig a little deeper into MS Planner compatibility.

[Shashi Annasagaram]

Hi Brian, Did you get any breakthrough in your research I have a similar ask from my business teams... Any help would be appreciated! - Thank you.

[Thomas Burke]

wrong thread  :) 

[Konstantin Virolainen]

Hi everyone,

We've just released a Microsoft Planner to Jira Connector that does exactly what this thread is about — syncing tasks between MS Planner and Jira.

You can pull Planner tasks into Jira or send Jira issues back to Planner, with optional scheduled syncs.

👉 https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1237045

This is the first version, so I’d love for you to try it and let me know what’s missing or what could be improved!

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Cloud Control Limited  -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

As of now, there does not appear to be anything in the marketplace pre-built for Jira Cloud and Microsoft Planner connection. I recommend also searching yourself because your team will have a better understanding of what you want/need: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/

If you can get a webhook from Planner to push out information, you can use Jira Automation rules to consume the data to create issues.  This is one way people connect to other external apps.  Here is some information on automation rules to get you started:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/automate-your-jira-cloud-processes-and-workflows/

Best regards,

Bill

[jrypkahauer]

I'm here because I want Planner to show my workload out of Teams... which I have some ideas about thanks to this thread.

I've already used Jira's Automations to do some integration with MS Teams... namely a comment tracker that pushes all comments in a particular project to a specific Teams channel using the webhook URL of the Teams channel in the Automation config as the destination for the data sent from Jira. I can tell you that Automations are really cool, but figuring out how the data they have access to is confusing and difficult.

(If anyone from the Jira Automation team is watching, insight and auto-complete for the JSON behind the automation messages would be INCREDIBLY USEFUL and a force multiplier for the Automations subsystem... from a technical perspective it could actually help drive adoption amongst users. 😉)

The next things I need to do some experimenting with are using issue filters to feed automations, and experiment with issue filter subscriptions to track new tickets AND comments... they're very powerful tools, especially when paired with Slack or Teams and webhooks going in either direction.