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