September Update Blog

[Microsoft Project Team]

New Features: 

• Improved Filtering: You can filter your tasks by Keyword, as well as Finish Date, Progress, Bucket, and Assigned to.

• Import .mpp in Project Power Apps: You can import your .mpp files directly into the Project in Power Apps experience.

Upcoming Features:

• Allow Microsoft 365 users to provide progress updates on their assigned tasks: Users with Microsoft 365 licenses can mark their Project for the web tasks complete and change the percent complete for their tasks without a Project license.  
• Critical Path: Users with Project Plan 3 licenses or higher will be able to highlight the tasks that affect their project’s finish date in the Timeline view. 
• Different Dependencies: Users with Project Plan 3 licenses or higher will be able to add Finish-to-Finish, Start-to-Start, and Start-to-Finish dependencies to their tasks. 
• Guest Users: Add guest users & assign tasks to them. Guest users can view projects and update tasks assigned to them.
• Labels: Add Planner-like labels to your tasks in Project for the web.
• Microsoft Teams Conversations for tasks: Add a Teams conversation to discuss a specific task with your team and tag your teammates in tasks within the Project app in Teams.

Trivia:

Last Month:

Question: Project for the web supports several different types of constraints on your tasks. What does the acronym FNET stand for when it comes to constraints?

Answer: FNET stands for Finish No Earlier Than

This Month:

Question: Users can add a project to their teams in Microsoft Teams. When was Teams originally launched?

[Durgaprasath]

Dear Team,

I understand there is a limitation of 500 tasks in Project for the web, any release plans to overcome this limitation?

Project for the web limits and boundaries - Project for the web | Microsoft Docs

[gezakukoda]

Is there a place to request features?

Color coding the tasks would be good. (based on assignee, label, etc)

[EricSpletzer]

I'm just becoming aware of the 500 task limit.  As the rollout adds more functionality, that will be a limit many come up against soon.  Is there any plan to increase this limit?

[JKnottUOW]

Hi @Microsoft Project Team - do you have any update on when

• Guest Users: Add guest users & assign tasks to them. Guest users can view projects and update tasks assigned to them.

will be released?