Frequently Asked Questions
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No. If this is something that you need, let us know at the Project for the web User Voice site!
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The Project Power App can be used by you and your organization to completely customize Project for your workflows and processes. It’s automatically deployed to the Default Dataverse environment the first time you open Project.
You can find the Project Power App in the Microsoft 365 app launcher. Just look for the Project app with the purple icon.
Yes! It’s a model-driven Power App, which means you use the Power Apps designer to edit the look and feel of Project.
Use the Power Apps designer to add columns to the Tables, Views, and Forms in the Project Power App.
Create a new Power App and add any tables you need into it. You can have all the core Project tables, views, and forms, as well as any additional custom tables that you need. Users of this new Power App will need at least a Planner Plan 1, Plan 3, or Plan 5 license, as well as a license to PowerApps. If you intend to use tables from other applications, be sure to follow any licensing guidelines for those apps.
The Project Team Member role is customizable and can be used to manage the access rights of users. Learn how to customize roles here.
What is the owner property of a Project record in Dataverse? Why does it change when I share the project?
The owner property of a Project record in Dataverse is the user who created the project. This property is used to determine which users can access the project. When a project is shared with a group, the ownership of the project changes. The group then becomes the new owner of the project.
You can use the Project for the Web Power BI content pack to create reports on Project for the Web data. Users will need the appropriate license to be able to view these reports. Refer to other guidance in this FAQ, as well as in the Microsoft Project service description.
No. Local custom fields are stored in a binary format within Project tables in Dataverse. These fields aren’t available for reporting.
You can manage the team from within Project. But, you can’t manage resources directly in the table in Dataverse.
You can open the Dataverse tables in Excel. However, fields included in Project can’t be directly written to. Neither can you create new rows in many of the tables. However, custom columns that you’ve added to the tables can be directly edited within Excel.
Project can be deployed to Dataverse environments that have the “Enable D365 Apps” toggle disabled. This means Project for the web can’t be deployed in environments that contains applications such as Dynamics 365 Sales or Project Operations. Learn more about deploying Project for the web here.
Yes, you can. All users of this Power App will need a Planner Plan 1 license or higher as well as a Power Apps license.
The Project for the Web Power BI content pack is free to download. However, users will need a Planner Plan 1 license or higher as well as a Power BI license to build reports.
No. Users will need a separate Power Apps license to embed canvas apps into the Project Power App.
There are several additional tables included in the Project solution that aren't visible in the Power App, can I use them?
You can use many of the tables in the Project Solution to customize the look and feel of Project for your users. These additional tables are:
- msdyn_projectchange
- msdyn_projectprogram
- msdyn_projectrequest
- msdyn_projectrisk
- msdyn_projectissue
- msdyn_projectstatusreport
The number of environments you can provision depends on the number of licenses you have. At the minimum, you need one Project license to deploy Project in the Default Environment, and at least five Project licenses to deploy to Production environments. Additional environments can be provisioned depending upon the amount of Dataverse database storage you have. Details about the storage included with Project licenses are in the Microsoft Project service description.