Modern Work Management – Project and the Power Platform blog
Microsoft Project, Project Online, Project for the Web and the Power Platform
Recently released is the Checklist feature for Microsoft’s Project for the web. This feature has been in Microsoft Planner for a while, it’s great to see it surface in Project for the web too! In this post we will take a quick look at this feature as seen below:The checklist is accessed from the task... Continue Reading →
It’s been possible for a while now to programmatically work with the task data for Project for the web / Project Operations but I still see a few queries on how to do this. So I thought I would create a quick post to highlight the Microsoft docs page for this. This can be found... Continue Reading →
Recently released was the ability to assign users to a task without the need to share access to the project via a group. Previously in Project for the web, you had to associate the project to a Microsoft 365 group before you could assign users to a task but this meant all of those users... Continue Reading →
Recently released to Project for the web is the Critical Path view for users with P3 and P5 licenses, this enables you to easily see which tasks impact the project end date. This can be seen below on my test project:This feature is available on the Timeline view by clicking the Filter option as seen... Continue Reading →
You’ve been able to copy a project in Project for the Web UI for a while now – blog post here: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/projectfortheweb-copy-project-feature-workmanagement-taskmanagement-ppm-msproject-office365-ppm-2/ The ability to copy a project from the model driven app wasn’t released at the same time but I happened to notice that this feature was available in the model drive app:I’m not... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year Microsoft added the ability to create a new project in the Project for the web UI by importing from an existing Project desktop MPP file, before it was added to the UI it was possible via a script. The Project for the web UI option is detailed here: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/import-microsoft-project-desktop-mpp-files-into-projectfortheweb-via-the-project-home-ui-msproject-microsoftproject-workmanagement-taskmanagement-projectmanagement-ppm/This option was missing... Continue Reading →
It’s been possible to filter the tasks in Project for the web for well over a year now but when this feature was first released it was only a keyword filter – this can be seen here: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/projectfortheweb-task-filter-feature-workmanagement-taskmanagement-ppm-msproject-office365/ then later on the ability to also filter by Progress was added. Recently Microsoft enhanced the Filter... Continue Reading →
Recently released / starting to roll out in Microsoft’s Project for the web is the ability to set a number field to roll up to the summary task, the new setting can be seen below:The Number fields can have Max, Min, Sum or Average rollup set, below are examples of each in a test project:Any... Continue Reading →
Just a quick post to highlight the documented impact on Project Online when using the newly released tenant rename feature in Microsoft 365 SharePoint Online as documented here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/tenant-renameThe docs detail the limitations of this feature, 5 points are detailed in the Medium Impact section for Project Online / Project Pro with PWA, the main... Continue Reading →
For a while now you have been able to import Microsoft Project .mpp files into Project for the web via an API using PowerShell. This is documented here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project-blog/import-project-desktop-files-to-project-for-the-web-api/ba-p/2031298. This capability has moved to the Project Home user interface now so this is much more end user friendly! The API route could still be useful... Continue Reading →
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