Modern Work Management – Project and the Power Platform blog
Microsoft Project, Project Online, Project for the Web and the Power Platform
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Modern Work Management - Project and the Power Platform blog 
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