Project management comparison: Project Professional 2010 and Project Web App
Applies to: Project Server 2010, Project Professional 2010
Topic Last Modified: 2012-02-11
In Microsoft Project Server 2010, Microsoft Project Web App (PWA) has new functionality that previously had only been available in Project Professional. This table compares the Web-based project management capabilities of Project Web App in Project Server 2010 with those same capabilities in Project Professional 2010.
| Project Web App (2010) | Project Professional 2010 | |
|---|---|---|
Multi-resource assignments: Assign more than one resource for a particular task. |
Available |
Available |
Status change updates: Receive updates on status changes that reschedule the project plan. |
Available |
Available |
Keyboard shortcuts: Use keyboard shortcuts for common operations such as indent/insert. |
Available |
Available |
Task hierarchy: Display and render tasks with hierarchical information. |
Available |
Available |
Indent/Outdent: Apply full indenting/outdenting of tasks in a project plan. |
Available |
Available |
Change highlighting: Easily view project changes and all parts of the schedule affected by the change (successor tasks, summary costs, and so on) with change highlighting. |
Available |
Available |
Multi-level undo: Perform what-if analysis and fully understand the effect of changes by reversing and reapplying a whole set of operations, including views, data, and option changes. |
Available |
Available |
Cut/Copy/Paste: Collaborate on schedule development by copying/pasting schedule details between applications. |
Available |
Available |
Flexible views: Move columns to define a specific view. |
Available |
Available |
High fidelity Gantt charts: Create vivid, colorful Gantt charts; customizable Gantt chart styles. |
Available |
Available |
Grouping: Apply multiple grouping rows to a project plan. |
Available |
Available |
Sorting: Sort project plan data by end-users. |
Available |
Available |
Filtering: Ability to filter project plans by any value in the plan. |
Available |
Available |
Automatically scheduled tasks: Indicate tasks (mode) to be scheduled automatically by using the Project scheduling engine. |
Available |
Available |
Manually scheduled tasks: Indicate tasks (mode) to be scheduled manually. |
Available |
Available |
Linking: Create, edit, and delete task dependency relationships. |
Available |
Available |
Zoom in/zoom out: Use zoom controls on the status bar to quickly change the timeline perspective of your project schedules. |
Available |
Available |
Scroll to task: Select a task and then move the task into view on the Gantt chart. |
Available |
Available |
View and edit custom fields: View and edit project metadata by using custom fields. |
Available |
Available |
Project Information: Edit project-level fields and properties. |
Available |
Available |
Edit large projects: No limit to the size of plans that are editable. Note Larger projects may have performance limitations, but no limits are built in. |
Available |
Available |
Import from SharePoint task list: Import data from a SharePoint project task list into a project plan. |
Available |
Available |
Connect to Project Server 2010: Connect to Project Server 2010. |
Available |
Available |
Microsoft Office Fluent™ User Interface: Increase productivity with the ribbon, a tab interface to quickly find and use Project features and controls. |
Available |
Available |
Real-time validation: Mark cell data as invalid while you edit, instead of after you save and validate. |
Available |
Available |
Error handling: Handle invalid data and present data in an easy-to-use interface that helps resolve issues. |
Available |
Available |
Fill down: Drag the bottom-right corner of a cell to repeat data in the cells below. |
Available |
Available |
Percent complete: Mark task progress as a percentage of the assigned work that is completed. |
Available |
Available |
Cost and material resource assignments: Assign Cost Resources or Material Resources to tasks Note Assignments cannot be made through PWA, but previous assignments from Project Professional 2010 are available as Read-Only. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Inactive tasks: Mark a task as inactive. Note In PWA, tasks marked as inactive in Project Professional 2010 are Read-Only. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Edit master projects: Edit master projects. Note In PWA, master projects are Read-Only. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Cross-project links: Create, edit, and delete a dependency relationship with a task in another project. Note In PWA, editing cross-project links is not supported; cross-project links created in Project Professional 2010 are Read-Only. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Summary task assignment: Create a resource assignment on a summary task. Note In PWA, creating summary task assignments is not supported. Summary task assignments created in Project Professional 2010 are Read-Only in PWA. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Task calendars: Define a custom calendar associated with a task. Note In PWA, task calendars cannot be used, and project plans created in Project Professional 2010 that contain task calendars are available as Read-Only. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
SharePoint 2010 Project Task Lists: Accept status updates for SharePoint 2010 project task lists. Note In Project Professional 2010, project task list status updates are synchronized/bi-directional with SharePoint Server 2010 after the plan is published. In PWA, project task list status updates are one-way and only occur from the SharePoint project task list to PWA. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Edit sub-projects: Edit sub-projects inside a master project. Note In PWA, sub-projects cannot be added to a project, and master projects are Read-Only. Sub-projects can be edited separately from a master project. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Task deadlines: Create deadlines for a task Note In PWA, deadlines are displayed but cannot be created. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Edit task type: Edit a task type. Note In PWA, task type is not an editable field. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
WBS codes: Define custom Work Breakdown Structure codes. Note In PWA, viewing custom codes is supported, but changing the code definition is not. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Create baselines: Create a snapshot baseline of the current project plan. Note Baselines created in Project Professional 2010 can be viewed in PWA as Read-Only. |
Limited or Read-Only |
Available |
Time-phased editing: Edit plans and work on a day-by-day basis. Note Time-phased data in manually scheduled tasks can be viewed in PWA as Read-Only. |
Limited or Read-Only Note Project Server 2010 Service Pack 1 allows you to edit time-phased values for manually scheduled tasks in PWA. |
Available |
Fixed work tasks: Define the type of a task as fixed work. Note In PWA, tasks cannot be created as fixed work, and project plans created in Project Professional 2010 that contain fixed work tasks are Read-Only in PWA. |
Limited or Read-Only Note Project Server 2010 Service Pack 1 allows you to edit a project plan with fixed work tasks in PWA. |
Available |
Effort-driven tasks: Edit projects that contain effort-driven tasks. Note In PWA, you cannot edit the effort-driven field. However, a task whose effort-driven field was set in Project Professional will calculate correctly when edited in PWA. |
Limited or Read-Only Note Project Server 2010 Service Pack 1 allows you to edit effort-driven tasks in PWA. |
Available |
Timeline: Build and customize the timeline view to visualize schedule details and communicate with stakeholders. |
Available |
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Team planner: Drag and drop resources in an interactive resource view to simplify complex resource scenarios. |
Available |
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Resource leveling: Recognize and correct resource over-allocation scenarios by using various automatic resource-leveling techniques. |
Available |
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Edit assignment fields: Edit assignment views. |
Available |
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Paste with task hierarchy: Paste hierarchical information that is included, such as indentations. |
Available |
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Network diagram view: View, edit, create, and delete tasks in a network diagramming view. |
Available |
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Task Form View: View, edit, create, and delete tasks in a form view. |
Available |
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Task Information dialog box: See task details by using a dialog interface. |
Available |
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Blank (null) Tasks: Create blank rows (blank, or null, tasks) in a project plan. |
Available |
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Automatic calculation: Schedule the whole project plan, instead of only the current task, without pressing Calculate or F9. |
Available |
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Text formatting: Modify text formatting by using colors and styles. |
Available |
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Edit calendars: Edit calendars for your projects. |
Available |
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Define local custom fields: Define local custom fields by users. Note In PWA, only users who have administrator permissions can define local custom fields. |
Available |
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Split tasks: Split tasks and show them as split in the Gantt chart. |
Available |
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Backstage view: Quickly access Project tools, templates, and program options by using the new Microsoft Office Backstage view. |
Available |
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Assignment units: Change the percentage units for each resource. |
Available |
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Task Inspector: Get analysis and intuitive guidance to resolve scheduling conflicts, which you can choose whether to act upon. |
Available |
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Offline editing: Edit project plans when you are not connected to Project Server 2010. |
Available |
For information about PWA functionality improvements in Project Server 2010 Service Pack 1, see the Microsoft Project 2010 blog post, Announcing Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=241595).
For information about how to apply Project Server 2010 Service Pack 1, see Deploy Service Pack 1 for Project Server 2010.