Grid Widget Enhancement: Yearly Data Capture Now Supported

We’re excited to announce a powerful new enhancement to the Grid Widget that makes capturing and managing your data even more flexible.

Until now, when using the Year and Month custom list fields as your period type in the Grid Widget, you were required to have both a Year custom list field and a Month custom list field. This meant that if your dataset was structured around yearly information only, the Grid Widget couldn’t be used.

With our latest enhancement, you can now configure the Grid Widget to work seamlessly even if you only have a Year custom list field.

Why This Matters

This update is especially useful in scenarios where data is managed on a yearly basis rather than monthly. A common example is cost management, where budgets are often set and tracked per year.

What you can expect

  • More flexibility in how you configure and use the Grid Widget
  • Simpler setup for datasets that don’t require monthly breakdowns
  • Better alignment with real-world use cases like annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term planning

This enhancement continues our commitment to making PPO more adaptable to the different ways organisations capture and manage their project related data.

We do our very best to make PPO better every day, so we’d love to hear your feedback on these latest enhancements.

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Author: Tarryn-Leigh Frans

Tarryn-Leigh is the Marketing Manager at PPO. She is enthusiastic about business improvement and is keen to share information and influence change. In her free time, she loves traveling, reading, and spending time with her husband and dogs.