Modern Work Management – Project and the Power Platform blog
Microsoft Project, Project Online, Project for the Web and the Power Platform
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 →
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 →
Guest user access is now available in Project for the web. The guest users added to your tenant can now be given access to your project plans in Project for the web. Below I have given my hotmail account access to my corporate Project for the web instance. My hotmail account is already a guest... Continue Reading →
Familiar with labels in Planner tasks? Well these are now available in Project for the web to help you tag or categorise tasks:From the Grid view and Timeline view the labels are available in the Task pane:Clicking Add label will load the label dropdown menu:You can use the search feature to filter down the list... Continue Reading →
Choice fields were released back in June 2021 for Project for the web as seen here: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2021/06/21/choice-fields-now-available-in-projectfortheweb-workmanagement-projectmanagement-msproject-microsoftproject-microsoft365-projecthome/. The choice fields have received a simple but useful update, you can now provide a colour format for the field:This enables you to visualise the data in a more engaging way. Clicking the colour picker option loads the... Continue Reading →
The Project for the web interface is used to manage the tasks in your projects. Other project artefacts such as Risks and Issues are not fully available* in the modern engaging Project Office UI found at - https://project.microsoft.com/. You can of course use the Power Platform’s Power Apps, either Canvas or Model-driven apps, to build... Continue Reading →
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 →
Want to have conversations around tasks in Project for the web? Want to use Microsoft Teams? Well now this is possible in a feature recently added to Project for the web. On the task information panes you will see the Conversation section as seen below when using the Project for the web UI:From the Grid... Continue Reading →
Modern Work Management - Project and the Power Platform blog 
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