Forum Discussion
Unique identifier for tasks in Project on the Web
For example you created a task and then midway in your project you add another task, or you need to move it it will effect the WBS. Also, another example if you finish a task, and then six month later you create a new similiar task and want to assign to someone and leave a note to look at the previous task, the WBS number won’t be an accurate number to use.
This is my understanding of course please do correct me.
malshayeb If you are using the Accelerator you can create a custom solution, add a custom Project ID field that auto-generates a unique id and add it to the Project, Summary form. However, for tasks this is not an option as Microsoft does not allow you to create global custom task fields. Hopefully Microsoft will add these to the tool in the future as it really limits practical use when you can only rely on Project Name or Task Name, which can change. it would also be useful if they would require Project names to be unique and limit some of the allowed characters that can be used in a name, similar to MS Project Online.
- take a look at the roadmap some features coming up might help, like the my assignment view for the team members
malshayeb This isn't really an issue for our org. Everyone likes Project for the Web, but it's missing so much functionality there is virtually zero interest in using this tool in a PMO setting. Some of our smaller groups are trying to using it, but they are finding it just doesn't meet their needs due to the missing functionality.
