fastProject 4.10.3 Released

General

  • Date problem fixed where in some instances, when selecting a date, the date did not appear in the correct format for the region

  • Fixed issue where a user upgrading from fastProject with the old licensing scheme to fastProject with the new licensing scheme would get an “Invalid Timeout” message and be unable to request a license key

  • Added a “Hide Summary Tasks” to the Toolbar

  • Problem fixed with versions of MS Project 2019, Build 13801 and later, where the MS Project Feedback window would open vs. invoking the Inspector

Report

  • ** NEW **

  • All reports moved to a new Report Tab for which there are two groups: Team reporting and Executive reporting

  • New step-by-step utility to walk through generating the reports for a project

Update

  • When importing LARs:

    • Can now select multiple LARs when importing “Only Updated Tasks”

    • At the end of an import, Update Progress is only invoked if an import occurred, i.e. it won’t be invoked if there was an error importing a LAR or an import did not occur

    • Fixed a problem where some milestones were not being exported

  • Number of tasks to be updated in the Update Progress startup window now better reflects the number of tasks that will be updated

  • Added an option to display Progress in the Update window status bar, which shows the number of tasks that have been updated and the total to be updated (e.g. 7 of 56)

  • Fixed problem highlighting a task from within the Update window when navigating away from the task being updated (bit the task being updated and the selected task were highlighted)

  • Fixed problem when updating a Touchpoint/Checkpoint or Deliverable where the milestone would move to 8:00am (beginning of the day) of the date rather than 5:00pm (end of the day)

  • Fixed problem importing a PreFresh report, where the Core Team Leader (Text1) and Function (Text3) values were overwritten based on the value in the Activity Owner (Text2) column.

  • Fixed bug where the report under Last Update Info was incorrect reporting some tasks that had not been updated

  • Bug fixed where the core team owner was not imported when importing a PreFresh report

  • Bug fixed where the Notes weren’t being imported when importing the PreFresh report

Macro-micro Roll-up

  • Activity Owner from and Notes now roll-up from Micro > Macro rather than Macro > Micro

  • Roll-up now leaves all micros open unless the roll-up is successful

  • Change Report now not generated by default

  • Fixed problem where a micro task was not started (sub-tasks updated as not started), but the rolled-up macro task was not rolled-up as not started

  • Fixed problem where -ve lags were not being calculated properly in the macro schedule

  • Fixed problem where a summary was being incorrectly reported as being without and end milestone when the last task was an external task

  • If an error was found rolling up, the micro files are left open (this saves having to re-open them again to fix the problem)

Inspector

  • Target dropdown now includes a health icon against each Target

  • Icon for the critical path to “Project” changed

CP Analysis

  • Can now set the default location to save the CP Analysis chart and works according to the following rules:

    • If a location is not set, the default Excel save location will be used

    • If a location is set, the location will be used and the file will automatically be saved in that location with a date stamp in the filename

  • CP Analysis & Actions.xltx renamed to CP Analysis and Actions.xltx to avoid problems with Sharepoint

Wigglechart

  • fastProject Options > Wigglechart now allows you to customer performance to schedule by using a custom absolute +/- weeks or a likelihood of hitting target metric (same was Wigglechart)

  • Hidden Wigglecharts are now not reported in the Dashboard

  • Update and Analyzer stats now not reported in the Dashboard

Analyzer

  • Improved “Fix all Targets” under the Target test dropdown

  • Removed ability to view and set Target and Wiggle milestone settings

Reporting

  • New REPORT tab added

  • Exec View now includes Completed tasks and Summary rows now hidden