Project Online allows you to assign particular resources on tasks. It allows you to replace generic resources with real people relying on their skills (developer, manager, engineer etc.). But also, there is an ability to assign Team Resources in Project Online.

If you build a report in Power BI Desktop and publish it to the Portal, you need to refresh the Dataset from time to time. But if one of your Data Sources is a local file, Power BI will force you to configure a Gateway for executing the refresh of the Dataset. So, you need a computer or server, that should work 24/7 to set up the Gateway and have your Dataset always up-to-date.

I got the chance to work with one of our customer’s Project Manager who wanted to setup the MS Project’s Calendar view but couldn’t see all the Tasks and asked for help.

Every day is a learning day and If we don’t learn a new thing today, the day is wasted.

Time for another learning series article based on a recent scenario, A Project manager reported that she noticed that for all of her resources in project team the assignment shows the work on weekends and it’s not expected since she has the standard calendar- calendar 1 (Copy of Standard with standard company holidays) assigned to Project.

I was working with a customer and received a question about the Managed Delegate or Act as Delegate option in PWA. If you create a delegate and would need to Act as Delegate, you would need to go back to PWA settings and start again click on Act as Delegate. Wish there could be option as “Act as Delegate” on the Managed Delegate page. To address this, We suggested to have the Navigation in PWA Site settings.

I was working with one of our customer’s Project manager who wanted to understand the process of monitoring a Phase on the project and ensure that project would show the Phase expected finish date (delay or early) based on the current status.

I was working with one of our customer’s Project manager who wanted to understand the process of unlinking the Subprojects from Master Project. Initially, the scenario was to add subprojects to Master and manage these projects but as you know that Tested limit from Master and subproject is around 998 (if I remember it correctly from the performance test labs) and sometimes managing these detailed projects become cumbersome so they decided to take out the Subproject from Master and manage these projects as a regular projects.

This article contains information on how to follow a Project Online or SharePoint site that interests you so you can find the site easily in your list of followed sites, and so you can see activity from the site feed in your own newsfeed.

How to generate a report for the actual resource usage over time compared to baseline work at the monthly level for a Project?