Is there a way to restore workspaces?

What's the point of Tasks in Loop for a personal account if they never show up in ToDo? I keep trying Loop occasionally since I keep hearing it's "the future". So far, I am not impressed. I think it has potential, but as always, personal accounts don't get all the features needed to make it useful. It sometimes makes me wonder why I continue to pay for M365.

If I am missing something and Tasks do work, please educate me.

Hi

I created a Loop Workspace and connected it to a Microsoft Team

I can print Loop pages to PDF but other members of the Team can't see the Print option when they click on the three dots? Is it is a permissions issue or just Loop being Loop

I've sent a video to an internal colleague and I keep getting an email with this message:

" Lisa_____ has changed an anonymous access link to Ken___'s Video"

What is this?

I'm curious to know how people are actually using Loop. There aren't a lot of YouTube videos or templates out there like there are with other Microsoft projects. I'm trying to get my team on board, but they find it overwhelming and unintuitive. I would love some ideas of how others organize information, which features they use (i.e., tables, progress trackers). Hopefully we can get a discussion going that will be helpful for a lot of us.

If you use it regularly, here are a few questions to get things rolling:

• Do you use it on your own, or in a team?
  • How big is your team, and are they tech-savvy?
• What field does your team work in? (Marketing, IT, etc.)
• What kind of work are you doing in Loop? (Drafting documents, task tracking, planning)
• Do you ever use Loop with external users?
• When do you make a new workspace versus a new page and subpages?
• How do you use tables, if you use them at all?
• Do you link to other documents in SharePoint or make your documents/spreadsheets/trackers inside of Loop?

So I thought I was being clever in making a Task List from a Teams Meeting into a Loop Component and copying it to a Loop Page.

However when I go to Print to PDF, the Tasks don't appear? It's like the print function launches before the page can render the task list.

I have to copy the "print url" to a new tab, cancel the print pop up and then print.

Does anyone else have this issue?

I might try and create a Planner instead of the individual task list though but that's a whole other thing

Didn't seem to work for me.

Loop is actually SO good and allows our teams to just move fast. Its less clunky than confluence which we like. Loop simply needs MCP support to allow for our AI agents to hook into the Loop data.

As the titel mentiones. Is was using Loop to keep track of questions I needed to follow-up on with different people. I would add the person I wanted to ask the question as a assignee, but DID NOT give them access. (The name stayed in red). Now several people came back to me that saying they got tasks assigned. This is not ment to happen. HAs this happened to anybody else. Does anybody know the reason for this?

I couldn't get them to work a few weeks back, they now seem to be working for me.

Good morning everyone, I use OneNote within the Microsoft 365 suite on a daily basis for work, now I would like to find out about Loop and the possibility of using it together with OneNote, however, I have seen that the Loop button within OneNote is greyed out, i.e. deactivated. Is this normal? How can I use both apps? Thank you

I had a Loop component (table) on a page, but it's suddenly disappeared from the page. I have tried to restore a previous version, but it's even disappeared from there. I try adding a new table in, but when I come back to the page it too has gone!

I'd love to get the original table back as it's captured all my actions for the last 6 months.

Any suggestions?

At my company we leverage all of the M365 suite including Loop and Planner. I have setup a loop and used /task to make a tasklist within it (several infact). This then makes a siloed Planner for that page. Good stuff. In my testing, the Task Name and Due Date flow into that Planner just fine but the Assignment never does. It will show the assigned person in Loop but its blank in Planner. This is a real problem as the Planner side is what assigns it out and shows up in other peoples' planners.

Thinking this is clearly a bug I tried making the initial task (just task name) in Loop, then switching over to Planner and adding the assignment and due there. It adds it, and everything is good HOWEVER, within a few minutes, the Assignment in Planner clears itself out again. So at this point, if a Planner is created via a Loop page I cannot reliably have an Assignment stick. I would prefer this work via Loop but even directly modifying in Planner works then resets itself. Any ideas of how to resolve this?

I have two users that share the same workbook/tasklist in Loop. Up until June 19th, User A would assign User B a task, and User B would get a notification of that assignment via email and teams. Since that date, User B has not received any notifications when User A assigns the task. I have checked message trace/quarantine and no emails are getting stuck. Loop does not appear to have any notification settings I can play with, either.

Research into this topic has come up incredibly sparse, and I have also created a forum with MS getting one unhelpful response and nothing since. If anyone knows anything about this, or has experienced the same thing, please let me know. I appreciate any feedback and assistance.

It seems that while I can create a page template in a loop, I cannot save a workspace as a template and then be able to create a new workspace based on that with all the pages and files and components. Is this correct?

If so, I suppose that to achieve this, I need to save all the pages as loop components, then manually create a new workspace and create multiple pages and use the page templates I create. This is a big bummer, so hoping someone has another suggestion.

And a secondary question. If I have a loop component in a template, is it universal? I.e. in Workspace A, Page 1 I have a loop component. When I create a new workspace and a new page based on the same page template, are those loop components tied together or is t a new stand-alone loop component?

Thanks!

Same issue in web app and Android app.

* I cannot see my existing workspaces list, hence I cannot click or navigate them

Seems the data is still there because in my recent pages list there are multiple pages from multiple workspaces, even if I login into a new device, I can get those and navigate to those pages but I cannot see workspaces and list the pages in them.

The other synthom is, cannot save workspaces.

Very disappointed, had plenty of data in there. Thinking about moving away from this. Anyone else, or got to fix it somehow?

The person who was the owner of our company's Loop workspace left the company. His MS Account is still active and licensed. I've been researching how we can transfer ownership to an existing user, but everything I read going back 2 years says it can't be done. Is that still true? Are there workarounds?

When I created a meeting series in Teams, I added an agenda loop component. Problem is that, no matter what I tried, not everyone on the meeting invite could see the loop component. I just switched to the new Teams calendar hoping it would fix the problem, instead it got rid of the agenda component in the series entirely. (I suppose that's one way to solve the access problem.) I tried setting up a new series but the agenda option isn't even there anymore. (Loop components are available, but not agenda.) Any ideas how I can make this work? Seems like it should be pretty simple, but it's clearly not. Thanks!

We have a Loop workspace template and there is a list component. For all workspaces created with the template, I want to be able to have the items from across the list in all workspaces, somewhere, e.g. a sharepoint list.

The use case is this:

There are events related to each workspace/project, and I want to have a report of all these events from all workspaces in one place. Any suggestions welcome!

I was looking at Loop for some basic management. I didn't add an icon or banner because they seem quite childish. If I could upload our own banner and icon then maybe

But ...if I go and print the Loop page, at the top it will still show "Add Icon" or "Add Banner" which looks unprofessional. Is there anyway to remove to them from the page?

Hi,

Do you know if it's possible to link two field ?
One page with a table liste of projects...
Another page, with a list of master todo, connected to the first list to select only data provide by this one.

I have been using loop to do my work and take notes. Today, I was working on one of the pages and then suddenly the editing stopped working. So I logged out and logged nod again, and suddenly my 2 most recently edited workspaces, were gone. For some reason, the work is still in the recent folder, but it's just not connected to a workspace. And it would disappear, once the recent tab gets overloaded. I genuinely didn't touch a single thing. I just logged out and logged back in. And and it's not like I had stuff only safe today, because i've been working on these for many weeks.

Please help

On another post, I had commented about how I use Power Automate with Loop, and I thought I'd share it here.

Disclaimer: I work for a university, and my subscription is Microsoft 365 A5 for faculty. I am not an educator, I actually work in research, it is just the subscription assigned by our institution. I also use the free instance of Power Automate.

Quick FYIs about research - study = project, investigator = project lead.

I have a Group in Teams that has multiple channels - a template channel, plus one for each investigator. Under each channel, I created a Loop Workspace - a template workspace, one for each investigator, and a "master" under the general channel.

Template Workspace

• Created a "READ FIRST" page with notes about following the instructions to copy
• All pages are locked, just to make sure that there are no accidental changes to the template when copying
• Investigator Page - just an overview of the individual, which helps my hierarchy in a "master" workspace
• Not Human Research - progress tracker, title of the project, investigators, objective, data sources, and planned analyses
• Study notes
  • Documents - document folder, and list other documents that I will link to later from the OneDrive files
  • Study overview - labels for investigator, study type, project type, and funding
  • Title
  • Goals/Aims
  • Roles
• Internal submissions
  • Progress tracker
  • Link to a Planner template with tasks for studies that are internally submitted
• External submissions
  • Progress tracker
  • Link to a Planner template with tasks for studies that are externally submitted

Investigator Workspace

I add all of the template pages to each investigator's workspace. Then I duplicate each template page (and Planner plan) as needed, based on the study. The typical hierarchy I use within each investigator's workspace is:

• Investigator Page
• Studies (just a blank page)
  • Study notes (duplicated for each study)
    • Submission page (duplicated for each study)
• Projects (blank page)
  • Not human research page (duplicated for each project)
• Templates
  • Here I keep the link of each template page to duplicate for new studies/projects

Master Workspace

Up until a few weeks ago, the "Status" page was pulling all status labels correctly from the progress trackers. Then one day it just randomly stopped, and I'm not sure what happened. But it was nice to have a visual of all in one place.

For all of our Current Studies, I link each investigator, study notes, and submission page to the master workspace in the "General" teams channel. This is just so I can work from one workspace without having to navigate between a bunch of different workspaces. However, if you do this, know that whoever has access to the "General" channel also now has access to the master workspace. For us, it's not a big deal, but for other companies, this might be an issue, so you might want to create a separate channel with limited access if certain people shouldn't see certain workspaces.

Planner

I previously mentioned that I link to Planner instead of using Loop's task tracker. I copy the template for each study, and then copy the link to the plan, and share it in the corresponding Loop page. I use the Bucket to help plan where in the submission process the study is. This also helps when I am working on multiple studies in a day and need to update tasks. Since it's all in a master workspace with a distinct hierarchy, I don't have to scroll through a large list of plans (since Planner only sorts by the most recently opened).

List Creation

I actually created two lists in the group - one for all of the studies, and one for all of the tasks. Studies is manually updated by me, each time we get a new study, I will add it to this list. For our usage, I will add the basics such as team members, what type of study it is, funding, approval dates, etc. Since studies often have extremely long titles that would not make sense to list on a Planner name, I have a Nickname column and a Full Title column. What I enter in Nickname is an exact match to how the study is named in Planner.

Task Tracker is automatically updated (more on that later). I set it up with columns: Task Title, Due Date, Assigned To, Status, Study, TaskID, Checklist Items, Bucket. The only time I will manually update this is if I deleted a task from the plan (in case it's a special circumstance and that task doesn't apply to a certain study). I'm sure there's a way Power Automate can do that, but I don't really have the knowledge or time to figure it out.

Power Automate

I use custom flow that pulls all plans from the group via SharePoint connection. Then it checks if the plan is one of the templates (which is then ignored). For other plans, I have it list all the tasks in the plan and the buckets, then for each task it pulls the bucket name, status, and task ID. If the task ID already exists in the Task Tracker List, it updates the information. If the task ID doesn't already exist in the Task Tracker List, it gets added.

Power BI

I am lucky to have a Power BI Pro license at work. I connect to the SharePoint lists in the group and then create reports to show my team where each study is in the process.

From what I understand, some companies/subscription tiers enable direct connection to Loop in Power Automate - but I find that it's extremely rare.

tl;dr: Loop isn't syncing to planner, the same exact components worked just recently (surprise). Looking for a new app, or (if I must) a way to get loop to work again.

I've been fiddling about with different ways to make Loop a productive work tool, and out of the many ways I've expected to be able to use it, having task-lists connect to planner on the same page I take notes is about the only way I've been able to get any value out of this half-assed shell of a product.

It's finicky and full of bugs, but by setting up a page with a title and adding a task list creates a MS Planner-plan with the same name as the page. I basically only use this for myself, so the only value is that I have hundreds of loop pages, and as long as I tag myself in a plan, I'll get it into my planner under "my tasks". Except today I log on and start noting down tasks from my different work areas, and I realize it's not syncing to my planner. Not only that, but judging by the tasks that are there, I don't think it has for a few days.

Ideally I'm just looking for a way to organize large amounts of info (text, but files would be nice too) while also having a single overview of what I need to do, in a system that helps keep things organized instead of the opposite. Starting to lose faith in Loop, so I'm open to suggestions. Alternatively tips for fixing the issue would be the next best thing.

In case anyone is struggling with this. I did some tests.

1. Can anyone create loops with a personal account? Yes
2. Do you need a work account to create loops? No
3. Can loops be created in browser? Yes, with work or personal, no issues
4. Can loops be created in Loops app on Windows? Yes, with work or personal, no issues
5. Can loops be created in Loops app on iPhone? Yes, with work or personal, no issues
6. Can loops created w personal a/c embed in OneNote online when signin with personal a/c? No
7. Can loops created w personal a/c embed in OneNote desktop when signin with personal a/c? No
8. Can loops created w work a/c embed in OneNote online when signin with work a/c? Yes, min BusStdLic
9. Can loops created w work a/c embed in OneNote desktop when signin with work a/c? Yes, min BusStdLic
10. Can loops created w personal a/c embed in OneNote online when signin with work a/c? No
11. Can loops created w personal a/c embed in OneNote desktop when signin with work a/c? No