fastProject 4.11.2 Released
/General
Target Scroller - minor refinements around the positioning of the text in the dropdown (now always left justified) and the notes (don’t move when you click inside)
Dramatic reduction in time to Add/Update Prefix when larger number of tasks involved
Link To End Milestone now links correctly when the other successor(s) are Start-to-Start with a task within the same group
Removing duplicate dependencies now only removes Finish-To-Start dependencies
Replaced “Remove Constraint” with a general “Tidy Up” function that removes all redundant date constraints and duplicate dependencies in a schedule. The individual Tidy Up functions can be accessed via the sub-menu.
Automatically naming the last milestone will also automatically name the Target/Window if it has one.
Expanded “Show Text On Gantt Bars” to include Right, Top, Bottom and Inside. In addition, you can now also reset the view from this function.
Custom Text and Flag fields suffixed with a ‘*’ can be used by the user if those fastProject functions are not being used.
Fixed problem where Text18 (Confidence Level) was display on the Left of the Gantt bar by default.
Problem fixed where making a task a deliverable would cause the task name to be duplicated and unreadable.
Fixed problem on the date picker where the font of the month was too large to see the whole name
Fixed incorrect reporting if “Skips end milestone” is successor task was inactive
Build
fastBuild
Added ability to export with tasks unlinked
Fixed problem where tasks were set to italic
Fixed problem where enabling a Target date did not enable the milestone box
Improved Doneness Criteria import template and import procedure
Analyzer
Added an additional “Skips end milestone” test where tasks with only Start-to-Start dependencies would technically have a successor within the group, but by being a Start-to-Start dependency, it would allow the task to go skip the end milestone. the test checks to make sure there is a Finish-to-Start dependency to the end milestone.
Fixed problem where a task with a duration of weeks (“wks”) was incorrectly automatically fixed when the Analyzer was run when the schedule was a 7-day schedule.
Wigglechart
New DASHBOARD with the ability to:
Dynamically select multiple Wigglecharts to display in a chart, along with their Target date (limit is 26)
Optionally display the Cause of Change on the predicted date point
All Wigglecharts now display the Cause of Change on the predicted date point (this can be turned off in the fastProject Options)
Reports
NEW FEATURE: Confidence Level report.
Ability to add confidence levels to a schedule and generate a confidence level report. The format of a learning group is:
A Summary task
A number of sub-tasks to the Summary task that represents a “learning cycle”
To create and generate the report:
Insert the column: Confidence Level (%)
Enter a non-zero number on the Summary task of the learning cycles
Enter a confidence level on the task that represents an expected increase in confidence (typically at the end of a learning cycle)
Under REPORT > Confidence Level Report to generate the report
Note: you cannot have learning groups embedded within learning groups
NEW FEATURE: Generic Export Report
Exports only those tasks with one of the custom flags set (user selectable)
Exported: Task ID, task name, start & finish dates plus up to 6 of the custom text columns, including the tasks’s notes.
All tasks are exposed but can optionally exclude completed tasks
Fixed the date format in the Targets Report, where some dates were in US date format, regardless of the regional format