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Enterprise Custom Fields Project For the Web & How to report off custom fields
What are the options for having a custom enterprise field on the project task level? I would like each project task to have a field called "Charge Code". When you add a custom field it says that...
Hello psawyer ,
Unfortunately this is a limitation in Project for the web, task level custom fields you add to a project are only local to that project and the fields are not available for reporting etc.
Paul
psawyer This is a hack, but we have a scenario where a user needs to capture Planned, Actual and Remaining cost from each task in Project for the Web. We stored custom task level values in the Checklist items, as shown below then parsed the data out in Power BI (actually Power Query). This is less an ideal, but it does work. Hopefully Microsoft will include this basic functionality in the future.