Modern Work Management – Project and the Power Platform blog
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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 →
Following on from part 1 where we introduced edison365 ideas as the project / task intake for Project for the web, Planner and Azure DevOps, in part 2 we continue where we left off. If you missed part 1 it can be found here: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/using-projectfortheweb-microsoftplanner-or-azuredevops-for-managing-projects-tasks-and-need-a-way-for-users-to-submit-project-requests-or-project-ideas-workmanagement-microsoftproject-edis/Continuing with looking the Power Automate flow used for the Project... Continue Reading →
It’s common in many organizations to use many different tools to manage work, this could be due to different teams having different requirements or just different preferences. Managing work is common, we all have tasks or projects that we work on. Having an engaging tool to capture new project ideas is also a common requirement... Continue Reading →
Recently released to Project for the web is the ability to export the Timeline view to PDF. When on the Timeline view you will see a new option on the ellipsis menu:The new option is “Export Timeline to PDF”. Clicking this will initiate the PDF file creation. You will see a couple toast messages in... Continue Reading →
The Microsoft Project for the web Project Accelerator was first mentioned a while ago now but has recently been made available on GitHub. The link can be seen below:https://github.com/OfficeDev/Project-Accelerator The GitHub README file contains the details to get started with the Project Accelerator solution: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Project-Accelerator/blob/main/README.mdThis is a great way to get more out of your Project... Continue Reading →
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