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Jeremy_australia
Oct 17, 2019Copper Contributor
Project author field
We recently moved to project online and have come across a field called author and in odata it is called authorname. But we can't set the value during project creation and it auto populate with a val...
Paul_Mather
MVP
Hello Jeremy_australia
This comes from the project file (template) mpp file - you will see this in the properties if you open the project in Microsoft Project Desktop. The field that is of more use is ProjectOwnerName, this can be set in Project Online and works with the Project Online access model.
Paul
Jeremy_australia
Oct 17, 2019Copper Contributor
Hi Paul_Mather,
Thank you, we do use the project owner field, just trying to understand this field as it would be great if it would auto populate with the person who creates a project.