One of Microsoft’s recent and most exciting features released for Project for the Web is the new assignment’s view. Like the “Task Usage” and “Resource Usage” views in Project Online, we now have the assignments view in Project for the Web, which can be grouped by resource or task, in a daily or weekly view. We can also add hours to a task for a resource assigned for an individual day, directly from the assignment’s view. The “Group by Task” option in this view is helpful for viewing tasks with multiple resources assigned and controlling the number of effort hours for each resource for each day/week in the schedule. When adjusting hours directly from this view, we can see that the overall effort hours and cumulative hours for a task or resource both increases based on the number of hours added.

The “Group by Resource” option in this view, displays resources with all tasks assigned under their names and displays the hours for that task for each day/week in the schedule. Currently, the

view displays 7 columns of days or weeks, depending on if you’re using the “Daily” or “Weekly” option in the assignments view. We can move throughout the timeline in the schedule by using the “< Previous” and “> Next” buttons or utilizing the “Go to Date” option to view a specific date. Selecting a specific date will display the given date as the first column after “Effort” with the subsequent days or weeks displayed after. Only working days (Monday-Friday) are editable for each line in the assignments view, with Saturday and Sunday blocked from being edited.

This assignment’s view allows for more granular and accurate control of the effort hours assigned to each resource for each task on a specific day or week within the schedule. This view also allows for more accurate results in the resource assignments and resource availability reports, which utilizes resource data from Project for the Web.

-Stella Salom, Solutions Architect