Project for the web
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Custom fields in “Project for the Web”
Custom fields in newly released “Project for the Web” at both project level and task level.
476 votesYou can now create local custom fields for your tasks!
Under the “Add Column” button in the grid, you’ll find a new menu option to create a New Field. Click it!
- Add dates, numbers, text, and flags to help you organize your work
-Filter tasks by the contents of your fields
-If you have limited screen real estate, edit the values for fields in the task details paneLearn more here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project-blog/announcing-custom-fields-for-your-tasks/ba-p/1680549
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Project for the Web is not available for Education customers.
Not including Education customers who have A3/5 or Project-specific SKUs for Project for the Web is a big miss. Aside from cost, what are the barriers for switching this on for Education?
257 votesHi everyone – we announced Project for the web being available for EDU a few weeks ago. The plans you’ll need to access it are as follows:
• Project Plan 3 for students
• Project Plan 3 for faculty
• Project Plan 5 for students
• Project Plan 5 for facultyHope this helps!
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Manual mode tasks
Please allow tasks to be scheduled in “manual mode” allowing for Project Managers to define start and finish date without auto calculating the effort.
198 votesHi all!
For all new projects, you are now able to set Effort and Duration independently of each other for tasks with assignments. When Effort is set, Duration will not change.
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Roadmap allow zooming to quarters and years.
Roadmap zoom should be allow to zoom down to quarters or years. This would allow viewing Roadmaps that are many years in the planning.
155 votesHi everyone!
Today, we added improved Roadmap zooming! If you go to your Roadmap, you’ll be able to zoom out to multiple stops and views, and as far out as 6 years!
Thank you for everyone who shared their feedback and scenarios – please let us know what you think.
~J
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Agile boards
The new agile features added to Project are good for planning. Key aspect of agile is communication in teammembers, so access to the plan/boards for team is very important.
It can be sufficient just display the boards in project site or in PWA.124 votesHi everyone!
We’ve heard your ask for boards, and we understand that its an important way to work.
We just launched the new Project, with a redesigned user experience that is simple and intuitive. Teams can quickly add new members and set up tasks, and then easily switch between grids, boards, or timeline (Gantt) charts to track progress.
Some links to learn more:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/10/29/new-microsoft-project-rolls-out-worldwide/?wt_mc_id=aid2409681_qsg_373162&ocid=aid2409681_qsg_373162https://products.office.com/en-us/project/project-management-software
Thanks all, please continue to share your feedback!
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Project for the web : Tasks effort not linked to duration
We should be able to specify a effort on a tasks that is less than a working day without affecting the duration.
Example : I have a resource on my project that is shared with other teams. I only have him/her 2 hours a day, and this time for 10 working days is enough to complete the task. So I want to have a task with 10 working days duration with a total effort of 20 hours.
In the current state, if I indicate the duration, it will automatically change the effort to a full day work (80 hours), if…
120 votesHi all!
For all new projects, you are now able to set Effort and Duration independently of each other for tasks with assignments. When Effort is set, Duration will not change.
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Project for the web - Copy Project
I'm at a conference, and customers are interested in Project for the web. However, they are adamant that it have both (a) templates for starting projects, and (b) the ability to copy an existing project to a new one. With those features, they may be interested in trying it.
84 votesHi everyone!
You can now access “Copy Project” by going into a project, clicking on the title to open the details pane, hitting the “…” in the top corner, and then the Copy command.
You can learn more about Copy Project and get Tips & Tricks here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project-blog/copying-projects-in-project-for-the-web/ba-p/1477766
Please let us know what you think and continue to share your feedback with us!
~J
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Project "Home" better compatibility with multiple PWA sites
The new Project Home concept looks a good start (from Brian Smith's recent post) but there are a few things that could do with some refinement for those customers with multiple Project Web App sites as some of our customers do.
The list of recent projects could with some metadata to describe the container site of the project (maybe the EPT would suffice here but no reason why this couldn't be the site description)
the New Project directing to the /PWA site is gong to be awkward when /PWA is used simply as a landing page (which has been our…
81 votesHi everyone!
We listened and agreed with your feedback on Project Home to be more compatible with the right PWA sites, so we committed and released a capability where Project Home users can now change the default PWA site to their preferred PWA site. This allows Project Home users to control the creation location of new Project Online projects, and to navigate more easily to desired PWA sites from Project Home.
You can learn more about how to use this feature here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Project-Blog/Change-Your-Default-PWA-Site-for-Project-Home/ba-p/353439
This feature will rollout to tenants gradually over a period of time. Please let us know if there are any questions or comments, we’re actively listening to you all.
~The Project Team
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Roadmap to add project summary task
When adding items to a row, Roadmap does not allow adding project summary row. This would be good feature because Roadmap can show start and end of project.
63 votesHi all -
You can now add the PWA project summary task in the Roadmap UI and its dates will stay updated. Note that this works with only new PWA connections to Roadmap.
Thanks for the feedback!
~J
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Project for the web - Keep column width
Project for the web - when I adjust column widths it would be useful if those adjustments remained consistent the next time I went into Project for the web. This would be especially useful when framing Project for the web in Teams because of the limited screen space.
29 votesHi everyone!
We’ve finished rolling out the improvement where the column widths will remain consistent across sessions in Project for the web.
Thanks for your feedback!
~J
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Group by assigned to
Under the Board view add "Assigned to" under Group by - just like in Planner which uses the same board framework.
22 votesWe’re excited to announce that this feature has been rolled out! You can now go to the Task Board view, and go to Group By > Assignee and see who’s assigned to what across your project.
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Update Icon for Project
Although it is more of a cosmetic improvement, updating the Project icon to the new modern look would go a long way to help reinforce that Project is still moving forward just like the rest of the O365 apps and not stuck in some forgotten junk pile.
Heck, even Planner has a new icon!
I have enclosed a sample of new Project icons for your consideration. Please vote and post which icon you prefer.
This is simple and easy fix and shows that you care about Project that is extensively used by PM community.
19 votesHi all —
Hope you love the new icon!
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Project as a tab in Teams: Do not require license for viewing
When adding a tab in Teams for Project, many stakeholders are interested in viewing the plan, but it is very impractical to have to manage licenses for a potentially large group of people who just want to take a quick look.
Therefore, it should be default that anybody with an Office365 license should be able to just look at plans. For those who have assigned tasks, the current licensing structure is fine.
13 votesAs long as a user is added to the group, they will be able to view the project even with just an O365 license.
You can learn more here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/project-for-the-web/office-365-user-view-access-to-project-and-roadmap
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Roadmap to lock or save zoom filter
The Roadmap zoom filter always returns to weekly views. The zoom should maintain or lock the last zoom settings. Each time I return to Dashboard, I must reset my zoom to see a full year.
10 votesHi all!
Thanks for the suggestion. You’ll start to see roadmaps storing settings such as the zoom filter when you return to a roadmap.
Thanks for the feedback, please continue sharing more!
~J
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Collapse tasks at the summary level
I like PfW a lot but I run projects that have a lot of phases and then sub-tasks. I would like to be able to open my project with the Summary Tasks (or phases) collapsed - this is the main reason I have stopped using Project for the Web. Every time I re-open it all my Summary Tasks are expanded so I have to start by collapsing all the ones that are complete just to get a focused few of a particular section.
I couldn't find this as an existing request, if it is already somewhere else please let me…
6 votesThanks for the feedback! We’ve made an improvement where the Grid will remember your expand/collapse state.
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Where are the online video tutorials for Project? It's 2019, it's all about video!
I don't want to download your stupid PDF to figure out how to use your product. I want a video that shows me quickly how to setup my project. This is like basic 101 product training, why don't you guys have it?
6 votesHi Nancy,
We have been creating support videos here – https://support.office.com/en-us/project, hope these videos are helpful in how to use Project!
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Create a 'Home' button in the Roadmap page
When navigating on an existing roadmap, the only way to go back to the Project Home page is to either use the app launcher or to type the 'project.microsoft.com' in the browser. It would be nice if we had a 'Home' button in the roadmap page so we could easily get back to the starting point page to see other roadmaps and projects.
6 votesLike Paul mentions below, you can hit “Project” in the top navigation bar and you’ll be directed towards Home.
If you have any other comments, suggestions or feedback around this, we’re listening!
Thanks
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Milestones in Project for the web
It would be great if there was the possibility to create milestones in project for the web. These should be marked with a special symbol so that everyone can see them at a glance (e.g. in the grid view or timeline).
We pitched the new project software in our company but our employees see milestones as a necessary feature, so we can‘t go live yet.
5 votesHello!
You can create milestones by creating a task and setting the duration to 0 or start date = finish date.
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Please implement and document keyboard shortcuts
In new "Project for the web" please implement and document keyboard shortcuts for task manipulation
4 votesHi, we do have shortcuts in Project for the web. You can learn more here:
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A search feature on a task or resource
have the capability to search by task or resource
3 votesYou can now filter/search by searching for a task or resource name in the Grid view.
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