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afrstat
Jun 03, 2025Copper Contributor
How do I manage my Microsoft Project? (notifications, deletion, and more)...
I finally got a license for Microsoft Project (instead of silly Planner which I cannot use for Agile Framework). However, I am still having some basic functionality issues with Microsoft Project Online. I am honestly trained on 2010 version of Microsoft Project, so a lot of these feature changes
1) How do I control notifications for Microsoft Project Online? First, I discovered there is these new notifications feature for Microsoft Project that sends out an email every time a even a sub-subtask (aka an action instance) is assigned. I do not want my coworker or the entire department to receive emails every time I edit a plan. (I mean 1 email is ok) but with how I work it can lead to like 60 emails....
So naturally I binged it which gave me this result....
Turn off sending out notification to all members Microsoft Project - Microsoft Community
1. From the planning board, select the 3 dots (. . .) to the right of the plan's name.
2. Choose Plan Settings from the menu
There are no settings under any of the 3 dots menu. So where are the notification settings for an entire project?
2) What is needed to access actual Microsoft Project Online?
Normally I click on a project and simply edit it, but in the desperate search for the actual settings for a Microsoft Project.... I discovered today that I have a weird error. Something about permission to a SharePoint site. It did not give me this error before. I suspect that I might have to make my own PWA site. Can someone explain to me what this error is about and why the day before I could access Microsoft Project Online but now cannot?
3) How to delete a project?
So, I was able to find a tutorial on this one, but I wanted to ask if there was a better way.
Deleting a project from 'Project for the Web' - Microsoft Community
4) How to control users that are part Microsoft Project Online?
Because how many documents talk about need to be owner to control emails... I tried to make own group in hopes that will give me better control over notifications. But this led to a discovery that I am in like 15 different groups all with the exact same name as my section and members. So What settings in Groups are for a Microsoft Project Plan?
Just an old fashion Project Plan user trying to understand how to use this confusing new Project version.
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Hello afrstat ,
It seems like you might be using Project for the web / Planner Premium and not Project Online? These are different products. If you want to use Project Online, speak to your M365 admin to get a Project Online site collection created (if you don't have one?) I'm not sure how up to date this Microsoft doc is but here is a link to getting started with Project Online https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/projectonline/get-started-with-project-online
Paul