Changing Project Online Defaults

Hi
I have a project online tenant with 3 PWAs provisioned. I have two questions here with respect to Project Online, and how to change some default settings:
When a user logs in to Office 365 account, the Projects link on top bar redirects to the 1st PWA. I need to change the default URL, so projects link redirects to the 3rd PWA. Is this possible?
I have changed the default currency from USD to SAR, but the symbol against cost figures is now displayed in Arabic (Default symbol). We need the cost unit to be SAR, and also the symbol to be displayed as SAR instead of being displayed in Arabic. Is there
a way to change default symbol as well?
Thanks in advance.
Atul Sharma

Hi Atul,
Unfortunately it is not possible currently to change the redirect from the 1st default PWA site.
Also the default symbol for the currency is pulled from .NET based on the select and cannot be changed. Same for USD - where $ is displayed.
Best regards,
Brian.
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How do we change the currency for Project Online instance?
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Custom fields with the same name in Project Online

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Hi Ryan,
I would follow Ben on this..
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Project Online is a part of SharePoint. Programmatically accessing Project Online uses the procedures that are described in the Office and SharePoint app development SDK; see
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Project Online Edit Schedule Permissions

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Hi Alex,
If you are using SharePoint Permission Mode, you could not create additional custom group. If you need more management of your user permissions, you could change to Project Permission Mode.
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Hi Isa,
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msayani2 --
Firstly, all of your people and machines need to b entered in the Enterprise Resource Pool. For each of the machines you list, enter a Max. Units value that represents 100% multiplied by the number of machines you have. For example, if you have
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