Are there any options for using the SharePoint modern UI with Project Online? It would be nice to be able to utilize a modern page 1) on the PWA landing page, and 2) on the home page for each of the project sites. Has anybody done this yet? And if so, ...
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Ridiculous to be silent on this issue. People are making choices with real money, and the uncertainty surrounding this issue is pushing lots of people to other options. ...
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Would be nice if Microsoft could provide an answer or roadmap on this!
As more and more are converting to modern view I also get a lot of questions about why the projec ...
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Strange,
Both accounts should work in the same way...is the problematic user properly setup in terms of permissions in Project Online?
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Matt Wade in Project
, 08-14-2018
There's a reasonably new project management tool in play. When should you use Microsoft Project versus the newer Microsoft Planner? There are pros and cons to both and it's important you know them before getting started. That, and proponents of Project ma ...
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Rob Weaver in Project
, 07-31-2018
Looking for online training for Project Online not just the Project application. Would be nice if the training could walk you through create a PWA to Portfolio Management. Any help is appreciated.
Microsoft does not provide official training resources, but you can
check at common training platforms to see what they have there:
Pluralsight, LinkedIn
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It's been a while since I've heard anything about odata regarding Project Online. Any hope we'll see support for v4 show up on the roadmap soon?
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I am running into the following error (screen shot below) when attempting to edit the "Standard" enterprise calendar or creating a new one. I am able to open projects through Project Center by highlighting / Open / In Microsoft Project for Editing, so I ...
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My workaround was to try it with annother Webbrowser!
Hi Michael, I have the same problem. Were you able to solve this issue? Regards Riz
Hi Michael, If you try it when Project is already open, do you get the same result ? Are you using Project Professional Online rather than an older installed msi version ...
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So we are running into an issue that appears may be attributed to a Chrome update. I am looking to gather feedback from others to see if you are experiencing the same issues as us.
When a user logs into O365 and they navigate to Project Online, they lo ...
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Is there an ETA on this issue being resolved. I have not been able to open Projects from PWA to Project in Chrome for 2 months.
It does appear to relate to the version 64 or 65 (Beta) releases of Chrome. Our product group are looking into it - not sure at this stage if Microsoft or Google will ne ...
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Hi! Has anyone got any idea if there has been any recent changes in the API space for Project. To be more specific in terms of EnterpriseResources like any metadata changes?
Are you hoping for some new things? or something in particular isn't the same for you anymore?
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Hi there I've added a custom field in my Task entity, which I need to read using CSOM in order to develop an integration. I get the Task object using context.Assignment.Task, but this Task does not include any custom field in its FieldValues property, so ...
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did you look in the "custom fields" up above in your screenshot yet?
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Azure Logic Apps and Flow feature a "Send an HTTP request to SharePoint" connector. SharePoint HTTP connector This helps a lot as it does the authentication against SharePoint for you and allows you to use the full REST API of Project Online. The current P ...
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Hello, I am looking to calculate the forecasted % planned to calculate what the planned % is at any future time in the project just by changing the status date. I am using Project 2010. Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you in advance for your assist ...
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Hi all, What is the simplest way to pull Timesheets reporting out of Project Online (PWA)? My organisation is using the Timesheets functionality in Project Online to record the time resources spend against projects to enable project profitability reportin ...
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Ian and Trutz, many thanks for your speedy replies - much appreciated. I've not needed to explore PowerQuery so far in my career, but this will be the project that forces ...
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That really depends on what you're looking to see... Status of timesheet submission, actual hours, both? For starters, you'll likely use oData connections and Power Query ...
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Anne Ryder in Project
, 07-10-2018
Hi, Can anyone recommend a great tutorial on how to set up MS Project for Agile planning? I found a few videos on how to work with it, but I need to get the basic settings right first. I also need some inpiration on which kind of visual reports would be goo ...
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As far as I know Project Server 2016 is out of scope for this...
That's great, but excuse me, what about on-premise msp 2016?
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We are about to make a significant investment in MS Project and would like to know what the roadmap is for conversion to modern sites?
Robert - see my post today on this. If the Roadmap is any indication of future investment, things are looking bleak! I am in a similar situation with a client.
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I am trying to create a portfolio report where i want to show total hours spent project wise breakup in pie chart format. I am trying to achieve this using PowerBI but i am not able to customize PowerBI dashboard with Project Online Connector for Power BI ...
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Do you get an error of some sort? I am able to add the Service Connector for Project and edit the reports which feed the Dashboard.
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I create a Flag that simply say = Flag[14]= Yes Then created a text filed that says IIf(Flag14="yes",True) The summary task is showing Yes and the task/milestone is showing error. I want to be able to flag the task/milestone as a yes if it is a delivera ...
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Hello, I am project manager and lead projects with matrix organization. I need to get informations (finish date mainly) from production, purchasing, designer, prototype departments for many tasks for one project. With MS Project, is it possible to build a co...
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Do you allow future-dated time entry? PWA Settings > Timesheet Settings and Defaults > Allow future time reporting
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We continue to upgrade our Cloud offerings, including the Project Online Desktop, to provide our customers with the latest capabilities and up-to-date online experiences. Due to these ongoing updates, beginning September 15, 2018, we will be removing the ...
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I have a user who is site collection owner and PWA administrator who cant open project plans from PWA nor via Project Desktop client. PWA is not a location in the file open dialog box. The connection to PWA is set correctly, user has a project premium li ...
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Project: Additional column for resources from a resource group There is a formula on the German site that provides a formula that I am interested in but I have tried translating the conversion into English with Google but I cant quite get the VBA code rig ...
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yash dutt in Project
, 12-08-2017
Hi All,
I am new to Project Management as I have started a new role as a Project Lead and this is all new to me coming from a tester background.
I have been tasked with finding a way on MS Project to show tasks that are due in 30 60 and 90 days, howev ...
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Yas You can do a 30, 60 day look up I use this flag and view for a 4 week look ahead Create a Flag custom field with the following formula (you can change the 4 weeks) II ...
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Hello Community, I am trying to create additional columns to show only resources from the same type of resources-group assigned to a task. (Please see example in picture) How should a formula look like to achieve this filtering? Or are there other options ...
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Best Response confirmed by Jochen Lahr (New Contributor)
I can't imagine you'll be able to do what your setting out to do. A poor workaround might be to create custom attributes that you manually type the names into, but there' ...
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I have pooled resources working across multiple streams but am not using Project Online or Project Server. So I was hoping to have a custom field that brings up the major activity (summary heading) can someone help please
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Anne Ryder in Project
, 05-31-2018
I need some help to extract resource usage view to Excel. I have created a visual report which gives me the view I need, but in my project I have a number of task that are not active (either completed, on hold, or cancelled), and I want those excluded from ...
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Could you instead use native fields like "active" (for tasks you inactivated... assuming that's how you're cancelling them?) and "status" (for things like complete, in pr ...
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Anne Ryder in Project
, 05-25-2018
Hi, I use the resource overallocation report in MS Project (2016 - desktop) to keep track of which of my resources are overallocated. Now I need to give a status of the overallocation for the next three months. But I don't know how to set a period in the ...
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Hello Community Members, I need a help in resolving the below issue. I am creating the task list using the custom template in SharePoint. Once the Task list is created i am open the task list using "Open with Project". I see Project is opening and I see ...
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I am trying to connect my Project plan which is in Project online (PWA) to Power BI through OData for custom PBI reporting of Project plan. I can get all the table's for PBI Visualisation. I am unable to create the relationship between Task table and Reso ...
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Hello - There is no direct link that can be established between Resources and Tasks. You could use the Assignments table to do that (to see resource assignments against t ...
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I have Project Professional Pro license (PWA), I am downloading the MS Project to my desktop. The latest version of Project is not getting installed. I need to get Agile in my project plan. Sometime back i was able to download the latest version 1804 where ...
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Hello! I am relatively new at Microsoft Project, and as I've worked, I was wondering how to tackle this problem I've encountered where I'd like to essentially present multiple tasks in one line. For some background, I am compiling a large list of all the ...
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Within a given project, you can use the native "timeline bar" functionality. This may work for you if you have those resources assigned to distinct tasks. Also, you can a ...
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I am experimenting with project online and the desktop software as a solution for project/resource management, but I have hit some confusing problems in the program. First, let me say the auto-scheduling based on resource availability is phenomenal when ...
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Hi Myles, You need to check the "Load Summary Resource Assignments" option when starting the Project client. 
If you don't see it, be sure to activate the dialog: File->I ...
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I posted a blog on a few reasons why a PWA might go read-only - that main new one I was highlighting was for those customers who only have a Project Online Essentials license(s) which isn't enough to keep the site alive and it will get de-provisioned. We ...
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Hello Community Since update to release 1802 (built 9029.2166) of the Project Client 2016 we face the following issue: Resource names in in the resource name column in view tables are not showing up anymore. The same behaviour in the „Build team from Ente...
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In Microsoft PPM/Project Online, I'm interested to know how others are handling for putting a project "On Hold". Do you have different workflow phases/stages? Do you have status indicator colors that indicate a project is on-hold? Do you have an enterpris ...
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Just the normal "status" field we have for other reasons like "ready, planning, in progress, testing, etc". Another one says "hold". Along with that we either delete or p ...
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How are you handling text-based status updates for your projects in Project Online?
Our general requirement is to enter a few lines each week (but this could theoretically be entered more or less often, the time doesn't matter as much as showing the las ...
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Bummer - I would have thought this was a thing others do. Maybe others just rely on metrics alone for dashboards? We're definitely asked here for a snippet of "what's goi ...
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Is there anything more recent put out by Microsoft or project bloggers on the topic of ideation & demand management than the "Hitchhiker's Guide to Demand Management 2013"?
There are some posts covering Power Apps and Flow when doing status reporting ( @Allan Rocha ) or in case a new project gets created ( @Prasanna Adavi ) . Of course you c ...
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Hi Ian,
Not to my knowledge (and I should know most on this topic):-)
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Hi everybody.
I'm currently struggling with CSOM because I get this error when trying to create a new Enterprise Resource in my context:
"PJClientCallableException: CustomFieldRequiredValueNotProvided\r\nCustomFieldRequiredValueNotProvided\r\nmdpropui ...
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If you are still running Project Server 2013 then please read https://lwal.me/5k - end of mainstream support is fast approaching (4/10/2018) and after that date to get any support you will need to be on at least the April 2017 PU.
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I believe that the 74-343 and 74-348 exams are still active. Check with
a Prometric provider.
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Hi there!
I've been using CSOM Framework for several months without important problems... Since a few weeks ago, I've been getting "Error 429" sometimes when one of my processes executes. Due to the fact that sometimes it works fine and sometimes it doe ...
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Hi Germán, 429 normally means you are being throttled - are you making a lot of calls? This article explains throttling in SHarePoint Online which also applies to Project ...
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Best Response confirmed by Germán Torres (Occasional Contributor)
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Hi all I just noticed the following behaviour which (from my perspective) should be different: - I added a task in a project and assigned a resource to it, published the project plan
- This task now shows up in the resource's task sheet, it shows up in resource
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Grüzi Adrian, Looks like a bug to me, too. Did you file a O365 ticket? Cheers, Trutz
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Great. Is this still available because I couldn't find it in the store and is there an Android version as well?
It has been removed from the store Michael. I believe there may be some
3rd party apps out there. Best regards, Brian.
Been awhile and I just went out to search for this app and couldn't find
it. Is this no longer a thing? Are there any other mobile apps for
Project Online? Or is it expec...
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Thanks for the feedback Ian - @Anna Chu can you help us get the same links in the Project community as we have in Planner - to the Blog? And @Ian Bruckner Anna is also t ...
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I am experiencing some strange errors and issues working with deliverables in Project Online. I am able to create deliverables, but it seems that after I "sync deliverables" a couple of times, it results in "An internal error occurred" and I am no longer ...
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After some additional testing, I found that I can click "Sync
deliverables" without any issue, but it is when I bring up the "Manage
Deliverables" pane in Project Profess...
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Does MSFT have a Best Practice guideline to Off-board employees in Office 365 that are also Project Online users?
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Does anybody have the details (or a link to a whitepaper/blog) around disaster recovery in Project Online? The product details page for Project Online Premium site says "Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, as wel ...
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Is that C2R-P you are running Trutz, or the true subscription product? The 'about' page looks like Project Professional 2016 and not Project Online Desktop Client. Which ...
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You can now, or at least by the end of the year, choose how you want your time phased data in Project Online. In the past it has always been daily, but you can choose weekly, monthly or by fiscal periods instead - or even choose not to have time phased d ...
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