Custom fields in “Project for the Web”
Custom fields in newly released “Project for the Web” at both project level and task level.
Chris
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Hi everyone!
Thank you for your continued feedback here. We are working on enabling you to create and use custom fields in Project for the web.
While we don’t have an ETA quite yet, we will provide one as soon as we can.
As always, let us know if you have any more feedback (on this suggestion, or other suggestions).
~J
47 comments
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Kerrie
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This is such a basic requirement. I need to be able to add in basic information such as Governance group, Status etc
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Anonymous
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Need the ability to map a project to a record in Dynamics 365 so that I can connect them in the data model with Power BI. So, ability to have a custom field at the project level to enter a unique ID (or autopopulate from Dynamics) that is common in both places is what I was thinking.
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Matt Griffin
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I'd like to be able to create a custom field with a drop down option, my specific scenario is a Yes/No option and to default to 'No' or null. This way I can use Power Automate to kick off other things based on a task being flagged 'Yes'
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Adrienne Radesky
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A custom field for "Department" would be helpful to build a portfolio of projects.
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Lilac
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Hi Everyone,
I know Project for the web is supposed to be basic, but can you implement the possibility to add $ costs and consumption calculations (not just resourse usage?) per line item as a new field? It would be a great help to be able to calculate burndown consumption at a given date during the plan.Many thanks!
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Andy
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Is there any idea of an ETA on this?
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Brandon Casas
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This is definitely a necessary option if our team is to consider Project for the Web. Thanks for planning it. Hope to see this feature soon.
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Chak Tukkadi
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Thanks for considering our feedback. I hope you are planning to build Project level and Task level custom fields. Project custom fields are helpful to manage project metadata like "Project cost center, Project budget, Department name" etc. One of the usage of task custom fields I think as below:
As we know, there is no baseline feature, so PMs can define additional custom fields to track the variance of task against standard fields like start date and finish date etc.
Process will be, prior to project execution, PM enters same date in both fields task start date and also on custom date field (Example: "Base Start"). This the where PM and client agree for project timeline. As project progress, PM will make update to default field start date as needed without changing Base Start. This way, we can see the variance of task. Similar process will apply to other fields. This way we can replicate baseline functionality in Project for Web.
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Sarah
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Agree with those saying, it needs to be flexible, but to give you an idea, we need to include the functional group that is doing the work. Something may be assigned to a person, but we need to be able to indicate whether that person is on Operations, Creative, etc.
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Sean
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We use custom fields extensively, both internally and for clients. I have yet to see a client who did not require a custom field in Project Online, and we consistently see them at the Project, Task and Resource Level. Gotta have custom fields!
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Paul
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Definitely on Projects to indicate project status according to desired frameworks (prince2 stages etc).
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Ray
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Every organization is different and has slightly different needs and naming conventions. Custom fields allow great flexibility and also allow for helping with change management by keeping familiar names. We use them 100% of the time!
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Tish
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Custom fields help us with all sorts of different projects/tasks/resources. Not all of our users should be expected to go into the PowerApp/CDS to make all these sorts of changes. Defeats the purpose of having an easy to use project tool.
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Duncan Griffin
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I think that the solution could too add custom fields in a PowerApp against a "Project" entity in CDS. Once we are not limited to only having one "Project" entity in the default Power App environment we could add fields against Project, Task (and resource if available), then have "Project for the web", include the custom columns within the Project Home when creating/updating projects
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Jonhnatam
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I would like to add custom fields to calculate the predicted% of progress of tasks and projects. In order to have more reporting options with BI.
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Rolly Perreaux
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Without sounding too condescending, the same reasons why we currently use Custom Fields in Project Online (PWA). In either of these tools, we create and use custom fields to track anything that is not accounted for in using the standard Project/Task fields.
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Tony Hitchcock
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Custom fields would be great at Project level. This would allow an area to capture and report on more specific Project information (budget, project type, cost, Status).
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Michael
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Make the whole grid as flexible as Excel. One of the the reasons Excel is so amazingly popular is that its flexibility allows users to make use of it in ways/scenarios far beyond what Microsoft themselves could ever envision.
Microsoft should have a subset of fields are are required and locked down for scheduling (Start, Finish, Duration, Effort, etc) users then should be able to define and add whatever else they want. If we don't want scheduling we should be able to turn it off.
If you add this flexibility your clients creativity will see Project for the web become the standard across organizations just like Excel has and no one will be able to compete.
If you insist on locking it down and telling us what to do and how to do it (when the effort changes so does the duration) it feels like you aren't listening.