fastProject 4.11.0 Released

General

  • A milestone with negative float now displays the arrow head (same as the task)

  • Fixed problem where the critical path would not be displayed if a task’s starts date was equal to the current date but the task had not been rescheduled

  • Breakdown now renames the end milestone better when using a prefix

  • Added more verbs to the breakdown/naming the end milestone

  • Added a feature to prevent the use from directly changing the % Complete, unless the Finish date is in the past and % Complete = 100%. If the user attempts to change the % Complete, a message will appear advising the user to use Update Task to update the task.

  • Standardized format of dates in the “Last…” to be dd-mmm-yyyy” format

  • Fixed problem where the Finish date of a milestone was not displayed in the Gantt chart

  • Fixed problem where a Challenge/Window (Early) date was positioned at the end of the day rather than the beginning of the day.

  • S-Phone Good.mpt fixed

  • Changed icon for “Show/Hide Changes”

Update

  • Updating a newly added task with no predecessors (i.e. sits at the Project Start date), will get a start date of the previous day by default when updated as started. This avoids the problem of adding a task then have to cycle through potentially many months on a long program to get to the correct start date.

  • When importing a Lookahead Report (LAR), if all subtasks of a summary are completed, the end milestone will now automatically be completed, as will it’s Target if present.

  • Now have the option to include/exclude Roll-up tasks when generating the Update Report

  • Fixed startup position of the Update Progress form

  • Bug fixed where Baseline 0 is now not overwritten if set and doing a first update

  • Bug fixed where inconsistent updates were being caused by inactive tasks. Inactive task are now ignored.

  • Bug fixed where the number of iterations during a roll-up vs. a roll-up once was the wrong way around.

  • Bug fixed where a task being marked 100% complete would cause the Update to crash.

Analyzer

  • Fully re-vamped Analyzer:

    • Greater than 100% speed improvement

    • Fewer core (essential) tests (down to 6) with the option of seeing the non-core tests under the new “Extended Tests” dropdown

    • Three errors now fixed automatically when the Analyzer is run:

      • Manual scheduled tasks (converted to Auto scheduled)

      • Durations not expressed in days (includes lags on dependencies)

      • Updates in the future that obeys the following rules. If a task has a

        • Start date in the past and a Finish date in the future > Updated up to the current date, same Finish date

        • Start date = current date, the task is made started as of the previous day, same Finish date

        • Start date in the future, the task is reset to Not Started and will be flagged by the “Not updated” test

  • Excel report option removed, Narrative added to fastProject Documentation > Analyzer

  • Future date constraint checks now ignores Summary tasks

Inspector

  • Inactive Targets are now not included in the Targets dropdown

  • Can now “Scroll Through History” if Baseline 0 is set, even if there’s no updates.

  • Fixed problem where targets did not appear in the Inspector if the current date was past the Target date

  • Fixed problem where tasks (rather than Summary tasks) were not inactivated/activated when used through the Inspector version of Inactivate

Roll-up

  • Roll-down only option added

Reports

  • Bug fixed in Late Simulator where the Targets in the list should not have included those excluded from the Wigglechart