I created a few projects in MS Project online. Then I created a roadmap based on these projects. All of this was easy to do and worked fine. My manager asked me if I can enhance the view of the roadmap. For example, use different colors for some tasks. Make bolder lines to divide each row that represents a project. Increase the size of the font to emphasize the year that is viewed. I can't see anyway to make these changes. Am I correct or is there a way to do these? Thank you. Michael

meperlman --The Roadmap app is very simple, and is primarily aimed at showing projects from multiple Microsoft PM applications, such as from Project Online and Project for the Web. Because it is so simple, as you have found, there is no way to format it.On the other hand, if you are reporting on projects and tasks from Project Online, a much better application for you would be to set up the Timeline view at the top of the Project Center page in PWA. Since the Timeline is a more powerful version of Roadmap, you can format your custom Timeline view. Just a thought. Hope this helps.

meperlman --The Timeline view in Project Web App has most of the features of the Timeline view found in the Microsoft Project desktop application. However, I doubt anyone has done a YouTube video on using the Timeline view in PWA. Your Project Online application administrator should be able to create a Timeline view at the top of the Project Center page that will meet your specifications. He/she needs to add you to the Project Managers security group in PWA so that you can access the system. Project Web App, by the way, is the web-based user interface to Project Online. Hope this helps.

meperlman - It just dawned on me that even though you said you are using Project Online, you might actually be using Project for the Web. When you created your projects, did you use a web-based user interface that looks something like this? If yes, you are using Project for the Web and NOT Project Online. And in that case, you can disregard my comments about Project Web App and the Timeline view in the Project Center page. The answer to your question is that you cannot apply much in the way of formatting to the Roadmap application. Hope this helps.

meperlman --First of all, you would need to have a Project Plan 3 license or higher. And second, someone in your organization would need to create the Project Online instance and then configure it for use. And third, you would need to install the Microsoft Project desktop application. My advice? Just keep using Project for the Web and the Roadmap application. Hope this helps.

Michael --Your plan would work. Go for it, my friend! 🙂

Question about enhancing the appearance of a roadmap in MS Project Online

Dale_HowardMVP
MVP
Mar 12, 2022
meperlman --

The Roadmap app is very simple, and is primarily aimed at showing projects from multiple Microsoft PM applications, such as from Project Online and Project for the Web. Because it is so simple, as you have found, there is no way to format it.

On the other hand, if you are reporting on projects and tasks from Project Online, a much better application for you would be to set up the Timeline view at the top of the Project Center page in PWA. Since the Timeline is a more powerful version of Roadmap, you can format your custom Timeline view. Just a thought. Hope this helps.
- meperlman
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 12, 2022
  Thank you! That is very helpful!
- meperlman
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 13, 2022
  Dale_HowardMVP, thank you again for your follow up! I am not an administrator in our version of Microsoft Online and don't have access to PWA. So I sent an email to the person who is our administrator and requested that he set up the Timeline view at the top of the Project Center page in PWA for me. That probably won't happen until tomorrow. I did look at YouTube videos of using timelines and it certainly has more features to improve the display of the timeline. But the video is showing a full blown version of MS Project. The version of MS Project online I have seen clearly does not have this timeline feature, so I am interested to see how this will work out once I get access to the Timeline view with MS Online.
  
  Michael
  - Dale_HowardMVP
    MVP
    Mar 14, 2022
    meperlman --
    
    The Timeline view in Project Web App has most of the features of the Timeline view found in the Microsoft Project desktop application. However, I doubt anyone has done a YouTube video on using the Timeline view in PWA. Your Project Online application administrator should be able to create a Timeline view at the top of the Project Center page that will meet your specifications. He/she needs to add you to the Project Managers security group in PWA so that you can access the system.
    
    Project Web App, by the way, is the web-based user interface to Project Online. Hope this helps.

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