Project management comparison: Project Professional 2010 and Project Web App

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. 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. 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. In PWA, tasks marked as inactive in Project Professional 2010 are Read-Only.	Limited or Read-Only	Available
Edit master projects:    Edit master projects. 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. 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. 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. 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 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 project task lists. 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. 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. In PWA, deadlines are displayed but cannot be created.	Limited or Read-Only	Available
Edit task type:    Edit a task type. In PWA, task type is not an editable field.	Limited or Read-Only	Available
WBS codes:    Define custom Work Breakdown Structure codes. 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. 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. Time-phased data in manually scheduled tasks can be viewed in PWA as Read-Only.	Limited or Read-Only 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. 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 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. In PWA, you cannot edit the effort-driven field. However, a task whose effort-driven field was set in Project Professional 2010 will calculate correctly when edited in PWA.	Limited or Read-Only 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
Team planner:    Drag and drop resources in an interactive resource view to simplify complex resource scenarios.		Available
Resource leveling:    Recognize and correct resource over-allocation scenarios by using various automatic resource-leveling techniques.		Available
Edit assignment fields:    Edit assignment views.		Available
Paste with task hierarchy:    Paste hierarchical information that is included, such as indentations.		Available
Network diagram view:    View, edit, create, and delete tasks in a network diagramming view.		Available
Task Form view:    View, edit, create, and delete tasks in a form view.		Available
Task Information dialog box:    See task details by using a dialog interface.		Available
Blank (null) Tasks:    Create blank rows (blank, or null, tasks) in a project plan.		Available
Automatic calculation:    Schedule the whole project plan, instead of only the current task, without pressing Calculate or F9.		Available
Text formatting:    Modify text formatting by using colors and styles.		Available
Edit calendars:    Edit calendars for your projects.		Available
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
Split tasks:    Split tasks and show them as split in the Gantt chart.		Available
Backstage view:    Quickly access Project tools, templates, and program options by using the new Microsoft Office Backstage view.		Available
Assignment units:    Change the percentage units for each resource.		Available
Task Inspector:    Get analysis and intuitive guidance to resolve scheduling conflicts, which you can choose whether to act upon.		Available
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.

For information about how to apply Project Server 2010 Service Pack 1, see Deploy Service Pack 1 for Project Server 2010.

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