Microsoft Project, Project Online, Project for the Web and the Power Platform
Recently Microsoft pushed out two new promo buttons for Project Online that encourage the user to try Project for the web, see below:For a lot of organisations, this is no issue but for some they won’t want to expose these. Luckily Microsoft made it configurable in PWA Settings so that you can turn this off... Continue Reading →
Rolling out now is the new Assignments view in Project for the web:This view provides you an editable time phased view of the assignments:You can Group by Resource or by Task:You also pick a date to scroll to using the Go to date selector. I’m sure as this rolls out there will be other features... Continue Reading →
Previously Project for the web only supported finish to start (FS) dependencies between tasks. Rolling out now is the ability to create different task dependencies so you are no longer limited to FS, you can now also use finish to finish (FF), start to start (SS) or start to finish (SF). These can be set... Continue Reading →
Want to add more visual engagement to your Project for the web projects? Bring attention to key information? Well now you can with the conditional coloring option?Clicking this loads the conditional coloring modal where you can set the rules:Firstly select the field, this shows a list of the default intrinsic fields:Then select the operator, the... Continue Reading →
Manage work in Sprints and want to use Project for the web? Well now you can with the new Sprints feature. Accessing the Board view you will see the new Sprint option:Accessing this view shows the tasks grouped by the sprints:All tasks will be in the Backlog to when you access this view for the... Continue Reading →
Want to see tasks for each resource in a nice board view? The new people view on Project for the web gives a quick insight to assignments by resource:There are several view options to change the behaviour of this new view:You can show the workload in hours:Or by number of tasks:Turning off compact mode shows... Continue Reading →
The Charts feature is now live in Project for the web as seen below by clicking on the Chart tab:This feature offers some visuals to quickly see the status of your project. The charts are interactive with on hover data tool tips:You can also use the filters below each chart to filter the data:Take a... Continue Reading →
Familiar with the Priority field in Microsoft Planner? Want the same feature in Project for the web? Well that is now available.Setting the task priority is available on the task detail pane, on the grid view or on the Group by Priority board view. These can be seen below.Using the task details pane the priority... Continue Reading →
A new feature available in Project for the web is the ability to colour format the bucket board view, this is a great visual aid:To use the new option, hover over the bucket title and click the colour picker icon:Clicking this loads the colour picker:Select the colour you want and the column background for the... Continue Reading →
Templates are available* in Project for the web as per the roadmap item here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=88851 *Notice I’ve outlined the /en-US in red in the image above, this is the only way I can access the templates currently so I’m not sure the roll out is completed yet. So if you are not seeing templates yet, switch... Continue Reading →
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