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Understanding departments

Understanding departments

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Understanding departments

- [Instructor] Sometimes in Project Online, you need to capture custom information for a specific set of projects or resources and for specific users that are in part of that group. If we go to the project as an end user in the navigation and select add a project, you have two options as defaults to select for project types, either a SharePoint Tasks List or an Enterprise Project. In here, this custom field would be able to show up on this page, so I've selected Next, and it would show up here for me to be as an end user to fill in if I was a member of that department specifically. I'm going to select Cancel and build out how to do that. So I'm going to go back to my gear and PWA Settings, and I'm going to select Enterprise Custom Fields and Lookups. I'm going to use a field that will come out of the box called Departments. This will filter either project or resource information when I'm a member of that group. So I'm going to select Department and add in some values for that. So I'll…

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