What's new April 2024 - Project Operations Lite deployment

Applies To: Lite deployment - deal to proforma invoicing.

This article applies to the following components and versions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations:

• Project Operations in a Microsoft Dataverse environment version 4.103.0.8.

Features included in this release

Feature area	Feature name	More information
Project Management	Increased task limit to 1,000 per project The new limit from Project for the web scheduled projects in Project Operations is 1,000 tasks per project.	Project and task limitations
Project Management	Editing Assignment Contours Phase 3 Users can now view assignments in a monthly and yearly view, under the tasks tab of a project. Additionally, for tasks without resources assigned, the unassigned contours are visible but in read-only state until a resource is assigned. These changes are available post March via Project for the web.	Editing resource assignment contours
Project Management	Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Save Notification When changes are made in the work breakdown structure within Project for the web, there's an asynchronous process to save those changes to Dataverse. Until the save to Dataverse is complete, some information in other tabs on the project (for example the estimates tab), may not reflect the changes. This feature shows an icon on the Project for the web UI that indicates when a save is complete (green check mark) or on-going (blue spinner).	Saving changes to a project's WBS
Project Management	Enable audit of Project Manager field Fields like Project manager, Comments, Status updated on, and Scheduled start, on the Project entity were set to noncustomizable to prevent customers from making changes that could negatively impact the product. However, this also disabled customers' ability to audit these fields. This feature allows those specific fields to be audited while keeping all other customizations disabled.
Resource Management	Intelligent multi-factor resource recommendations This is an extension to the Intelligent Resource Recommendations feature, which was initially released using only one factor (Experience Fit). Resources are now recommended using a combination of Experience Fit, Cost, Availability, and Skill-match. Resources can also be compared, shortlisted, and booked as a project team member.	Prerequisites to use resource recommendations Get intelligent resource recommendations
Time Entry	Copilot in Time Entry (preview) Copilot acts as your intelligent assistant and takes away some of the heavy lifting associated with logging work completed by you. Users are able to create draft time entries from project assignments and generate editable external comments for all time entries using the Copilot sidecar experience. (Only previewing for NAM Azure region).

Quality updates

Project Operations on Dataverse

Feature Area	Reference No.	Quality Update
Billing and Pricing	3586943	Estimate grid to show update to prices and Billing type (chargeability) when "Update prices" is selected.
Billing and Pricing	3734257	Use Transaction Date (Time zone independent) field instead of Document date during invoice creation.
Sales	3749382	Close As Won fails if QuoteLineResourceCategory is pointing to Inactive ResourceCategory record.
Billing and Pricing	3761980	Recalculate API on invoice doesn't recalculate the Chargeable amount, Nonchargeable amount, etc.
Project Planning and Tracking	3764826	Copy Project has team members copied to the root business unit.
Approvals	3801469	Project approval billing type is only set with linked contract line.
Sales	3815475	Able to create and update estimate lines with invalid subcontract lines.
Billing and Pricing	3817244	Invoice with missing invoice lines is created when Project Contract has more than 5,000 contract lines (Project based lines + Product based lines).
Project Management	3838992	Status reports displayed on the screen and as part of printed content are fully accessible.
Billing and Pricing	3852034	Billing hub doesn't reflect correct amount for the Fee field, nor does it show the unbilled sales transactions of type Fee when selected.
Project Contracts	3859490	Error with contract performance tab when contract is created without project.
Billing and Pricing	3876272	Invoice confirmation fails with error An item with the same key is already added.
Project Budgeting	3884108	During Revision Recreate Details for Expanded Budget Lines.