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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
For a while now you have been able to create local custom fields in Project for the web: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/task-level-custom-fields-support-in-projectfortheweb-workmanagement-taskmanagement-msproject-office365-ppm/ but this didn’t include Choice field types where users can select values from a list. A recent update to the service has now enabled Choice fields:Now you can consistently tag the tasks with a value from... Continue Reading →
Previously in Project for the web you would need to open the project to carry out actions such rename a project, copy a project, export to Excel. To improve user efficiency for some of these actions, you no longer need to open the project. These actions are available directly from the Project Home page from... Continue Reading →
Notifications are now available out of the box in Project for the web and Roadmap: Receive emails when: Someone assigns a task to me Some adds me to a project or roadmap To ensure the notifications are turned on, access Project Home then the settings cog in the top right corner: Click “Notification settings” and... Continue Reading →
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