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Question about enhancing the appearance of a roadmap in MS Project Online
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 roadm...
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.
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.
Thank you! That is very helpful!