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Posted on by Helgar

I'm new to Power automate and I'm making my first flow. I have done a little bit of programming som 10+ years ago but not much remains of that knowledge.

I have a form that creates tasks in planner. I'm using Create a task v2 (Preview) because I need to set priorities for the tasks but that's where I'm stuck at. I can't figure out how it's supposed to work. In the form the priority they can choose from is a description; "Within a week", "within a month" or "When there is time".

How do I translate those lines into value for the priority field in "create a task v2"?

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v-chenzhi on at

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Hi @Helgar ,

Do you want to set the priority in Create a task?

Could you please tell me what do you mean ‘In the form the priority they can choose from is a description; "Within a week", "within a month" or "When there is time".’?

The priority of Task have fixed four options

Do you mean your task bucket?

You can chose Bucket like this.

Or set Priority like this

Priority of the task. Valid range of values is between 0 and 10 (inclusive), with increasing value being lower priority (0 has the highest priority and 10 has the lowest priority). Currently, Planner interprets values 0 and 1 as "urgent", 2 and 3 and 4 as "important", 5, 6, and 7 as "medium", and 8, 9, and 10 as "low". Currently, Planner sets the value 1 for "urgent", 3 for "important", 5 for "medium", and 9 for "low".

Here is an article for your reference.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/planner/#create-a-task-(preview)

Best Regards,

Zhi Chen

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David_MA 12,982 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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This is an old post, but I was having trouble setting the priority when I used the value of 0. It left it as normal. However, if I set it to 1, it would set it to Urgent which is what I wanted.

I used the following expression in the Priority field of the Create a task action:

int(if(less(sub(int(formatDateTime(outputs('Get_item')?['body/HearingDate'],'yyyyMMdd')), int(formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyyMMdd'))), 4), 1, 6))

If it returns less than 4 days it sets the priority to 1, otherwise it is set to six. You can adjust it to meet your needs. Hopefully this helps someone.

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I am experiencing issues with this same Create a task (Preview). Specifically, I am passing values from an Excel spreadsheet. I four rows in my test sheet, each task set to one of the four priorities mentioned: 1 for urgent, 3 for important, 5 for medium, and 9 for low. The flow runs successfully however, the priorities are all set to low. When I look at the flow log I see that both the Input and Output values are 9, but my spreadsheet has a different value for each task.

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