Remove team member limits for externally scheduled projects

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts	-	Mar 26, 2024

Business value

Project Operations has a current limit of 300 team members per project. This limitation is imposed by the task planning engine of Project for the web. Some customers have projects that don't require advanced project planning and WBS capabilities, but may require many team members. For these projects, a typical usage paradigm is to manage them as "externally scheduled" projects because that removes the need for planning the project using Project for the web.

This feature removes the limit on the number of team members on externally scheduled projects. For example, this can be used to manage a project for team members’ time off. Here team members can log time against the project so the customer can track time off across the organization, but no WBS or tasks are needed. In this case, the entire staff may be assigned to one project, and this feature removes the limit on the number of team members on this type of project.

Feature details

This feature allows customers using externally scheduled projects to assign more than 300 team members per externally scheduled project. This limit was designed to accommodate Project for the web and is not required for projects that use other project management tools.