Correct Budget Consumption on Projects for Purchase Orders with a Discount
When a discount is added to a project purchase order with a posting profile main account, other than the main account of the item used, the discount is ignored in the consumption of the related project budget.
This idea is to ensure that the discount is taken into consideration when con...
Cost posting for inter-company timesheets – All/All required
An error is presented when trying to post an inter-company timesheet when a valid posting profile exists at the category group level. The payroll side of the posting is set at the category group level and posts correctly. The current code makes you configure a posting profile for an All/All re...
Thank you for the suggestion! This has been added to our roadmap and will be considered for a future release.
Regards,
Kim Nelson
Program Manager, Project management and accounting
Microsoft
Project approval workflow
Some projects and especially investment projects must often be approved before the work can start. I suggest that a workflow is established for approval of projects. Approval status should be kept on the projects, and posting should only be allowed if the approval is required and has been done...
Thank you for your feedback. This is a great suggestion! We will consider this in our roadmap.
Sincerely,
Kim Nelson
PM, Microsoft
Alert/e-mail notification to resource when they're booked on project
We are missing a functionality where an alert or e-mail notification is sent to a project resource when they are booked on a project.
In addition, it would be great if project resources (e.g. a consultant or developer) could view their bookings, either via an integration to Outlook...
Thank you for the suggestion! This has been added to our roadmap and will be considered for a future release.
Regards,
Kim Nelson
Program Manager, Project management and accounting
Microsoft
Enable Project Manager assignment for workers across legal entities.
Currently, when a project is setup in a legal entity, the project manager must have an employment relationship with that same legal entity. This is a significant limitation, as global companies frequently ask project managers from company A to manage projects in company B.
When as...
Thank you for the suggestion! This has been added to our roadmap and will be considered for a future release.
Regards,
Kim Nelson
Program Manager, Project management and accounting
Microsoft
WBS task line property
System should have line property default also in WBS task line. When employee enter activity in timesheet line, system give category By default from activity. Project manager should have possibility to assign also line property to wbs task line and default value should come to timesheet line a...
Thank you for the suggestion! This has been added to our roadmap and will be considered for a future release.
Regards,
Kim Nelson
Program Manager, Project management and accounting
Microsoft
Data Entity to import and migrate all the on account transactions for all projects
There must be a data entity that works to import and migrate all the on account transactions for all projects. The workaround solution provided was to use the forecast entities and import the project on account forecast and copy on account transaction from these forecast cannot be a real workarou...
Fixed Assets depreciation into a project
As a Project Manager, I want the ability to track assets (equipment) against project task can be assigned. This assignment will allow the asset (depreciation cost) to be costed to the project or invoiced to customer so that equipment costs are tracked against the project
Thank you for your feedback. Currently this is not in our roadmap; however, we are tracking it and if we get more feedback and votes, we may consider it in the future.
Sincerely, Annette Bruer, PM, Microsoft
Resourcing week always starts from Sunday and we should be able to edit this
Going to Project management and accounting> Project resources > resource availability> Yes. You can see all weeks start on Sunday and end on Saturday and this cannot be edited. The start of the week value is currently being hard coded in AVWeekProcessor class and hard coded S...
Thank you for the suggestion. We will consider this for a future release.
Regards,
Kim Nelson
Senior Program Manager
Provide ability to restrict 'Project Stages' by Security Roles or controlled by Workflow
Project stages can be very powerful to drive consistency of process when it comes to project setup, providing the ability to route the project setup to the different parts of the organisation who may have oversight either to the operation or financial aspects of the Project.
The d...
Thank you for the suggestion! This has been added to our roadmap and will be considered for a future release.
Regards,
Kim Nelson
Program Manager, Project management and accounting
Microsoft
Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. This is a great suggestion! We will consider this in our roadmap.
Sincerely,
Kim Nelson
Program Manager, Microsoft