For a lot of people, a project is more than a set of tasks with the team members assigned to work on them. You may need to track issues or risks or a process to decide which projects even get fun...
Updated Oct 27, 2021
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I see "Project for the web" is now moving to the new consolidated Planner solution. Does anybody know if this Project Accelerator will work with the new Planner solution? I am about to set up the accelerator solution for my organization but am concerned it will become obsolete in the coming weeks. Thanks.
Hi think of the 'Planner Power App' as a re-branded version of the 'Project Power App'. So far the only change we've seen is from the entity name 'Projects' to 'Plans', but there are some other changes underway. Given the direction from Microsoft these will be in name only, the core functionality in the Project Accelerator shouldn't be changing, just the naming within it (from Project to Planner, for example). If you are concerned you may want to wait until the change hit and then deploy the Accelerator in a Dev environment to see what the impact may be....
Have you made any new discoveries on this, I am led to believe by the literature that MS Planner is all suppose to be a seamless transition from MS Project for the web. But so far I can't find anything that guides me through the process of enabling and testing on our Project Accelerator power app.
Juan: if you have Project for the web or Planner premium running in a 'named' environment (or even Default), keep in mind the Planner Power app is running behind the scenes when you setup that environment. If you go into 'Power Apps' in your O365 'waffle', in the upper right you'll see 'Environment' and then a name. This will drop down and allow you to select the specific technical environment you want to access the Planner Power App within (you can have multiple ones, for different groups like IT, finance, etc., or Prod + Dev). Select the name of the environment (Default for the core out of the box one everyone has access to by default). then scroll down. It will show 'Your apps' for that environment. You'll see a 'Project' app, hover over the three vertical dots, and you'll see a 'Play' button. Hit that, and it'll launch into the Planner Power App. The out of the box one has a very limited set of views and fields, and no reports displayed, but you'll see a list of all the projects you are managing in Planner premium or Project for the web today. This is where a 'solution' can be built or deployed.
All of your modifications to the Power App (adding fields, adjusting views, adding security, etc.) happy within the Power apps portal make.powerapps.com back end which you will now be in.
If you'd like to see an example of a solution up and running, here's a link to a video of one we developed, aligned with how PMOs typically function. Hope this helps.
https://youtu.be/h0nEIcAQqYU?si=mRWAignmM-24yg88
