Explore the differences between Project Professional and Project Online + PWA

Resource Leveling

• Recognize and correct resource overallocation scenarios using automatic resources leveling techniques.

Task Path Highlighting

• See how tasks come together and identify which are most critical to a project’s success.

Split Tasks

• Split tasks and show them as split in the Gantt chart.

 Task Inspector

• Additional analysis to resolve scheduling conflicts.

Define Local Custom Fields

• All users can define local custom fields.

Time-Phased Editing

• Edit plans and work on a day-by-day basis.

Team Planner Overallocation Highlighting 

• Visual cues identify task overallocations, which can be automatically leveled or manually corrected with drag and drop in Team Planner.

Team Planner Prevent Overallocations 

• Automatically move tasks so that resources cannot become overallocated in Team Planner.

Inactive Tasks

• Tasks marked inactive in Project Professional are read-only in PWA / Project Online.

Edit Master Projects

• Master projects are read-only in PWA / Project Online.

Edit Sub-Projects

• Sub-project cannot be added to a project, but can be edited separately from master projects.

Cross-Project Links

• Dependency relationships with tasks in other projects are read-only in PWA / Project Online.

Summary Task Assignments

• Resource assignments on summary tasks are read-only in PWA / Project Online.

WBS Codes

• Custom Work Breakdown Structure codes are supported, but definitions are read-only in PWA / Project Online.

Multi-Resource Assignments

• Assign more than one resource to a particular task.

Automatic / Manual Scheduling

• Use the Project scheduling engine to automatically schedule tasks, or do it manually.

Task Linking

• Create, edit and delete task dependency relationships.

Project Information

• Edit project-level fields and properties.

Edit Large Projects

• No limit to the size of plans that are editable.

Import from SharePoint

• Import data from a SharePoint project task list into a project plan.

% Complete

• Mark task progress as a percentage of the assigned work that is complete.

Cost and Material Resource Assignments

• Ability to assign Cost Resources or Material Resources to tasks.

Task Calendars

• Define a custom calendar associated with a task.

Fixed Work Tasks

• Define the type of a task as fixed work.

Timeline

• Build and customize the timeline view to visualize schedule details and communicate with stakeholders.

Edit Assignment Fields

• Edit assignment views.

Create Baselines

• Create a snapshot baseline of the current project plan.

Task Deadlines

• Create deadlines for a task.

Edit Task Type

• Change the type of a task.

Effort-Driven Tasks

• Scheduling engine support for scheduling a task as effort driven.

Backstage View 

• Get started quickly with recent projects and new project templates.

Calendar View

• See tasks represented as a traditional calendar.

Network Diagram

• Investigate the relationships between tasks in a PERT-like format.

Resource Graph

• Scroll through resources to visualize allocations.

Task Form

• Quickly access essential task and resource data.

Paste with Task Hierarchy

• Paste with hierarchical information included, like indenting.

Offline Editing

• Edit project plans without being connected to the internet or Project Server.

Team Planner View 

• Manage resources and resolve overallocations visually with drag and drop.

Task Information Dialog

• See task details by using a dialog interface.

Team Planner Custom Formatting 

• Add visual cues to highlight certain tasks in Team Planner.

Team Planner Unassigned Tasks

• Visually identify unassigned tasks and drag them to available resources in Team Planner.

Text Formatting

• Modify text formatting with colors and styles.

Task Hierarchy + Indent / Outdent

• Display and render tasks with hierarchical information and apply full indenting / outdenting of tasks in a project plan.

Flexible Views

• Move columns to define a specific view.

Sorting / Filtering

• Sort or filter project plan data by any data value in the plan.

View / Edit Custom Fields

• View and edit project metadata using custom fields.

High Fidelity Gantt Charts

• Create vivid, colorful Gantt charts with customizable styles.

Status Change Updates

• Receive updates on status changes that reschedule the project plan.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Use keyboard shortcuts for common operations, such as indent or insert.

Multi-level Undo

• Perform what-if analysis and fully understand the impact of changes by reversing and reapplying an entire set of operations.

Cut / Copy / Paste

• Collaborate on schedule development by copying/pasting schedule details between applications.

Zoom In / Out

• Use zoom controls on the status bar to quickly change the timeline perspective of project plans.

Microsoft Office Fluent User Interface

• Increase productivity with the Ribbon, a tab interface to quickly find and use Project features and controls.

Real-Time Validation

• Mark cell data as invalid as you edit, instead of after saving or validating.

Error Handling

• Handle invalid data and present data in an easy-to-use interface that helps resolve issues.

Fill Down

• Drag the bottom right corner of a cell to repeat data in cells below.