Allow more than 500 Tasks in a Project
Project is not allowing a project to include more than 500 project tasks. There does not seem to be published documentation of a limit to the number of tasks.
Roger E.
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18 comments
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TheoG
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Oh boy... this 500 limitation really stopped my project planning abruptly. Really not good. Many, many hours spent already to get to this point... Now what? And not even half-way through the planning stage.
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Curtis
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The limitation of the 500 rows handicaps the efficacy of P4TW for any larger long term projects with multiple components across an enterprise.
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Mike
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500 tasks is kid-sized. Come on Microsoft, this is a commercial application. I thought that limitation was missing a zero or two.
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Wooland Polanski
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Microsoft Project Online was not built for Medium- to Large size projects, what are you complaining about. *ironic*
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Michał
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Project plan for 10 years for 500 tasks? Can I get a project like this to run please? 500 tasks is not good enough even for a 3 month project if you plan it in detail. The tool is useless as far as I'm concerned with this limit - it is easier to use a shared Excel sheet. Bad call on this limit
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Senthilkumar Palanidurai
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Hi Project Operation team, 500 task limit is very poor design of the product. Considering the per user license cost & limitation of 500 task in a project, the product will fade out very soon. Please increase project task limit, allow CRUD operations using API, Add more integration with team. Adding a Entity or View in Teams is not ideal integration.
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Anonymous
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Seriously... Project having 400,000 task limit, and Project Online having 500??? Did you guys trick us into paying for a demo version? 500 tasks or less I'll stick with my notebook, or maybe Excel.
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Damen
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Absolutely ….. same issue Im running 1000-1500 tasks per project - this is making life very difficult. please increase ASAP. It is pretty ridiculous.
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Anonymous
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Just hit this limitation myself. We can't make use of the product until this limit is increased. Please review. Thanks
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Kenneth Petersson
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How the hell can there be a limit on 500 lines in a modern software... It does not take a very complex project to get above 500 lines. Please increase ASAP. This really limits what types of project you can plan using project for the web
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Senthilkumar Palanidurai
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This is road blocker issue for us. We have 1000+ tasks in project for various business unit. Please increase the limit to 2,000 or more.
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Sebastian Gomez
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How is it possible that you can only add 500 tasks? Is this 1990s? Windows 95 type of software? Please extend the number of tasks!
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John Alindogan commented
500 is too limiting for an enterprise project. My projects don't always exceed 500 tasks, but I certainly have a few that do
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Nicolas
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Max 500 tasks for a max duration of 10 years so 50 tasks/year max, so less than 1 task per week... Oh, but wait we can allocate 20 resources to this weekly task, success guaranteed!
Guys where's your head at when you put this kind of limitations?
Needs to be unlocked asap if we want to sell it to serious customers. -
Kurt
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We use Smartsheet and would love to switch over to Project Online, but limiting us to only 500 tasks is not acceptable. Project Online needs to support at least 1,000 tasks and preferably 2,000 per project in order for us to justify the move. Please consider this. Thx
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Fred
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I agree with this request. I would love to use Project for Web, particularly to enable co-authoring, but the 500 task limit prevents us from doing so due to the complexity of Gantt charts that we manage - frequently several hundred. Could we raise the limit to a more reasonable number like 2000 tasks? That would cover 99% of our use cases and we can figure out how to break up and connect large Gantts from there. As an example, your competitor SmartSheets has a 5000 row limitation.
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Francois
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I support this idea. We are thinking about using one Project for the entire organisation, so that everyone is aligned and not working in siloes. However, having a limit of 500 tasks make this idea a non-starter. I guess there are performance trade-offs, but please consider. The same applies to the maximum amount of resources of 150. I guess we'll have to aggregate our projects to get to a single view (in Power BI), but that will require discipline in terms of naming convention and may not be practical.
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You are correct that the limit is 500. You can find all the limits for Project for the web at the bottom of this article - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/project-online-service-description/project-online-service-description
Thanks!
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