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Project Plan 3 features available yet?
I have spent a bunch of time trying to figure out what features I should and should not have access to. The licensing site https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/planner/microsoft-planner-plans-and-pricingsays I should be able to do things like add dependencies, roadmaps, financials, and reports but I'm basically looking at the same old planner. After about an hour of searching, I was able to find a version in the most unlikely place which is 1.3.1. No where within the app can this be found (MS should really fix this).
I currently have a Project Plan 3 license, but I don't see ANY of these features outside of the basic Planner you get with an M365 sub (we all have E5 licenses). Am I doing something wrong? Is there a configuration I am missing? Is the new version not available or only available in some preview channel? I am anxious to use these features....just need to figure out how to get to them.
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The problem with the licensing site is that it does not mention in which application you can use the features you mention. Some features can be done in Planner, some in the Project Online Desktop Client and some in a Project Online PWA solution. All these applications are included in Project Plan 3 but cannot be done in the same applications. For instance, the financial features and reporting is something you can only do in the Project Online Desktop Client, so you need to install that. Dependencies between projects, you can only do in a Project Online PWA solution or via the Project Online Desktop Client (not in Planner). Roadmap is the app you can access if you use Project for the Web at project.microsoft.com.
The licensing site makes it seem like all these features are available in Planner, which they are not, however, they are part of the Project Plan 3 subscription.Look at the little footnotes on the licensing sites, some of them vaguely implies that you need to use Project Online Desktop Client or Project Online in order to access some features.
- First, thank you for so much for your reply. This has been such a frustrating situation trying to figure this out. That said, I'm not sure what you are saying is entirely accurate which is the why this is so confusing. Look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC1BP-4lXDA&list=PLXPr7gfUMmKwwYisWgc8hHuJ14Flf80yu&index=1
This clearly shows that there is a thing called "sub tasks" in planner. I'm not seeing that at all even though I am paying for project plan 3 which should have this. I know I have also seen discussions/videos of creating dependencies within planner as well. Here is an article describing how to use dependencies in planner:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/advanced-project-planning-with-microsoft-planner-dependencies/ba-p/4168235BarrettM1610 Correct. You can create dependencies and subtasks in Planner Premium but only if you use the Planner app in Teams (or go directly to Project for the Web). If you don't see the possibility of using Dependencies or subtasks in Planner Premium in Teams, my guess is that the Project Plan 3 subscription has not actually been applied to your M365 account.
- I can't seem to find these answers either here, google, or internally within my company. My internal support folks are confused as well. Any confirmation on whether these features should be available to me with my license would really help. Is there anyone currently using these features?
