Modern Work Management – Project and the Power Platform blog
Microsoft Project, Project Online, Project for the Web and the Power Platform
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 →
As you are probably aware, Microsoft released two new features for Project for the web:Labels: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2022/04/06/task-labels-now-available-in-projectfortheweb-projectmanagement-workmanagement-taskmanagement-microsoft365/ Checklists: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2022/01/25/projectfortheweb-task-checklist-feature-microsoftproject-msproject-workmanagement-taskmanagement-microsoft365/ These datasets are not in the default Power BI report template for Project for the web. In this blog post we will walkthrough the steps required to get this data into the default Power BI template found here: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Project-Power-BI-Templates/blob/master/Project%20for%20the%20Web/Microsoft%20Project%20for%20the%20Web%20Power%20BI%20Template.pbit... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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