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project plan updates in project online
- Sep 06, 2022Robert --
Tell your IT admin to specify the Project Permissions mode in Project Online after the instance is set up, and then to add you to the Project Managers security group. He/she will need to perform those two actions before you will be able to use Project Online. Hope this additional info helps.
Unfortunately, no. Project for the Web is NOT a web-based version of the Microsoft Project desktop application. It is an entirely new software application that mimics only SOME of the functionality in the Microsoft Project desktop application. When you import an MPP file into Project for the Web, as you have done, you run into some of the limitations of the tool. So, if you truly intend to use Project for the Web, you will need to live with these limitations.
Keep in mind that Microsoft has been continually developing Project for the Web, and they have been rolling out new features on a regular basis. Hope this helps.
- robertpoddarSep 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Hi Dale_HowardMVP
Been trying to figure out the best option to have the Project Desktop features to do the planning and tracking of the project, but instead of having it in the desktop, would like to have the plan in Project Online.
Frankly, I am just confused as I have been scrounging around to find some article/video to get to my goal.
One option, that I thought of but I am not sure if this is the right way:
1. Click on the "Save As" option in Project Professional (Desktop client) and select "Sync with Sharepoint".
2. Go to Project Center (where I hope the project would have got saved)
3. Check out the project and update the project plan with the Project Professional Client.
4. Check in the project, once changes are done.The issue being is that when i click on "Save As" to "Sync with Sharepoint", i get the following error message.
- Sep 06, 2022Robert --
If you want to use Project Online, which is NOT the same application as Project for the Web, you will need to ask your Office 365 administrator to provision an instance of Project Online for you. He/she will then need to give you the URL of the Project Online instance. You will then need to create your Project Online login account in your copy of the Microsoft Project application, which will allow you to connect your copy of Microsoft Project to the Project Online database.
Once you have launched Microsoft Project and connected to the Project Online system, you can open the MPP file that you created, click File > Save As, and then be able to save it in the Project Online database. Once it is saved, you will also need to publish the project to make it visible for others to see in Project Web App, which is the web-based user interface to Project Online for people like team members and executives to use.
Hope this helps. - robertpoddarSep 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Thanks Dale_HowardMVP. I will reach out to my IT administrator, who is also the admin for Project Online. Will come back to you, once we have the setup done properly.
thank you so much for the guidance and the help..
- Sep 06, 2022Robert --
Tell your IT admin to specify the Project Permissions mode in Project Online after the instance is set up, and then to add you to the Project Managers security group. He/she will need to perform those two actions before you will be able to use Project Online. Hope this additional info helps. - robertpoddarSep 14, 2022Copper Contributor
Wanted to circle back to you and keep you informed that we have been successful in getting Project Online up and running. We got the help of the MS Tech support executive.
Thanks a lot for all the guidance in helping me out with this issue..
- Sep 14, 2022Robert --
Well, thanks for the good news, my friend! And you are more than welcome for the help. 🙂
By the way, if one of my replies provided the answer to your question, would you please mark my reply as the Best Response to your question? Thanks!