What's new February 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 4.91.0.95.

Features included in this release

Feature area Feature name More information
Resource Management Get recommendations for resources to staff as team members based on their past relevant experience

Allows Project Managers and Resource Managers to receive suggestions for who to staff as a project team member based on relevant experience. This feature will eventually also consider factors such as Cost, Availability, Utilization, and Skill-match.
Prerequisites to use resource recommendations (preview)
Pricing Cost plus pricing – Sales/Billing

This feature allows customers of Dynamics 365 Project Operations to select more pricing methods or calculations when setting up role prices. The sales pricing methods supported for roles are price per unit (default), at transaction cost, or markup/markdown of the transaction cost. This feature only applies to Sales/Billing price lists.
Set up labor bill rates

Quality updates

Project Operations on Dataverse

Feature Area Reference No. Quality Update
Billing and Pricing 3292863 Material Estimates aren't priced based on their required date.
Billing and Pricing 3509255 Invoice created from a contract without a price list has total amount as 0.
Billing and Pricing 3581717 User is able to Import from estimates associated to the Project even if the Contract is confirmed.
Subcontracting 3613708 Journal line cost type and actual created from it aren't external when created manually.
Billing and Pricing 3682737 Invoice Line Details calculations not triggered when values are updated via workflow.
Project Contract 3690545 Contract performance Billed amount, cost incurred, and Gross margin numbers are zero.
Billing and Pricing 3703686 Begin and End Dates don't reflect when msdyn_begin/msdyn_enddate is updated.
Billing and Pricing 3704338 Quote recalculate doesn't find price overrides scoped to customers.
Project Budgeting 3752286 Fix Time Zone Issue with Budget Line Distribution across Budget Period Lines.