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Copper Contributor

Jan 30, 2020

API access to the new Project Online

Hi Friends, We are starting up a new project with the brand new "Project Online" in Office 365. I saw it is now based on the Common Data Service like MS Dynamics is. However, we tried to us...

MVP

Feb 01, 2020

Hello BenjaminMel ,

As you have seen, currently it is not possible to programmatically create / update tasks. I have seen a suggestion on User Voice for this - best option vote on that to help the Project product group see the demand for this. I can't find the existing idea currently but here is User Voice: https://microsoftproject.uservoice.com/forums/914203-project-for-the-web

It would be good to understand more about the scenarios / user case too.

Paul

BenjaminMel
Copper Contributor
Feb 03, 2020
Paul_Mather, Thanks for your Answer Paul!
Will do!

Would you have any roadmap about Project Online or a phasing out of PWA (The "old" Microsoft Project) ?

The summarized use case would be here to use Projects as a project database, extended with custom entities and fields. A custom UI will allow the user to add/modify projects via the Web API. But this is impossible in the current situation then.