Forum Discussion
project plan updates in project online
- Robert --
Tell your IT admin to specify the Project Permissions mode in Project Online after the instance is set up, and then to add you to the Project Managers security group. He/she will need to perform those two actions before you will be able to use Project Online. Hope this additional info helps.
I should have asked you, before going through the above steps 🙂
I was able to import the MPP file into Project Web App, but the following main "features" are removed in order for the import process to get through.
1. Predecessor column is removed
2. It supports only Finish-to-Start dependency, hence it has removed all the dependencies.
3. Baseline is not supported in Project Web App.
Is there any other method wherein the desktop project plan that i prepared can be imported online "As is"?
- robertpoddar --
Unfortunately, no. Project for the Web is NOT a web-based version of the Microsoft Project desktop application. It is an entirely new software application that mimics only SOME of the functionality in the Microsoft Project desktop application. When you import an MPP file into Project for the Web, as you have done, you run into some of the limitations of the tool. So, if you truly intend to use Project for the Web, you will need to live with these limitations.
Keep in mind that Microsoft has been continually developing Project for the Web, and they have been rolling out new features on a regular basis. Hope this helps.- Thanks, Dale.. is there any other option, apart from Project for the Web, wherein we can use the full features of Project desktop to prepare & track a project plan and have it online?
Hi Dale_HowardMVP
Been trying to figure out the best option to have the Project Desktop features to do the planning and tracking of the project, but instead of having it in the desktop, would like to have the plan in Project Online.
Frankly, I am just confused as I have been scrounging around to find some article/video to get to my goal.
One option, that I thought of but I am not sure if this is the right way:
1. Click on the "Save As" option in Project Professional (Desktop client) and select "Sync with Sharepoint".
2. Go to Project Center (where I hope the project would have got saved)
3. Check out the project and update the project plan with the Project Professional Client.
4. Check in the project, once changes are done.The issue being is that when i click on "Save As" to "Sync with Sharepoint", i get the following error message.
