Great new #Enhancements to #ProjectOnline

This is to quickly share about 3 excellent new enhancements to Project Online rolled out today.

1. Email Notification

Email notifications in Project Online keep you on top of what’s coming, let you know when things are due and what’s currently on your plate.



This feature is available from today.

2. Project IDs
This was much awaited!
Until today I have to use JS or other solutions, in order to generate unique ID for each project.
This is now going to be available as OOB option, and can be configured as part of the Enterprise Project Type (EPT) settings. 



Each EPT has its own project ID definition. You can specify a fixed Pre- and Postfix, Starting Number and Minimum Digit Padding. The project ID can be added to a number of views throughout PWA and in custom reports. It can also be programmatically updated using CSOM.

Note, that this feature is still in final touches mode, and yet to be released.

3. Increasing custom field limits for reporting

This enhancement is simply overwhelming. 

Reporting from Project Online was an issue with prior limitation of 45 custom fields.

With this new enhancement introduced, increased new limits on ALL custom field types are:

Project custom fields	Timesheet custom fields	Task and Resource custom fields, combined
450 text fields	450 text fields	450 text fields
450 lookup tables	450 lookup tables	450 lookup tables
450 of all other custom field types (cost, date, duration, number, flag)	450 of all other custom field types (cost, date, duration, number, flag)	450 of all other custom field types (cost, date, duration, number, flag)

This change is valid from today.

Complete details are available here: https://blogs.office.com/2015/12/03/3-new-enhancements-to-project-online/

Life is getting better with Project Online :)

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