fastProject 4.11.4 Released

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General

  • New feature where the gap to a Target is now displayed next to the name of the Wiggle milestone. Only displayed when the Critical Path IDs are displayed. Note: a one-time upgrade will take place if the capability is not present in the project file. This may take a few seconds.

  • Actions

    • Adding an action now automatically populates placeholders for the action and owner in the correct format.

    • The action placeholder is automatically highlighted so the user can immediately start typing.

    • Clicking on the action or owner fields automatically highlights the whole field allowing the user to just start typing.

    • The user can also quickly move between the two by using the Tab key.

    • Exporting Actions now only exports the actions (and not the whole task’s notes)

  • Can now Mark and Unmark multiple tasks as actions

  • Forms that appeared in the top right now now positions the form so the whole form is visible

  • Added a “Find Missing Activity Owners” function under TOOLS > Tidy Up

  • Clarifies Add/Update Prefix includes Fill Down when on a column other than the Name column

  • CP ID column is now automatically hidden when the:

    • Incomplete tasks is invoked

    • Wigglechart is run

  • When importing a schedule, the project calendar is now reset to the default MS Project calendar:

    • Week starts on Monday

    • Start/Finish time = 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

    • Hours/day = 8, Hours per week = 40, Days per month = 20

    • Working time = 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM (8 hours)

  • Change Holidays/Working Time made more interactive. Apart from Holidays, there is now no need to click the Set button to record the Working/Non-working/Default days. Dropdowns changed so can’t be edited.

  • Non-days task durations are now correctly converted when either converting an existing schedule, running the Analyzer of doing a “Tidy Up”. Conversion now takes into account “e”-type durations, task calendars and lag types on the dependencies.

  • Fixed problem with the breakdown where the milestone wasn’t automatically named correctly if the task task a prefix

  • Fixed Breakdown of a task that was previously reverted to a single task, where the first duration was 180d.

  • Fixed problem when running the Analyzer of Tidy Up, where a rescheduled (not started) task would get it’s date constraint removed if the current day was a holiday (so was rescheduled to the next work day in the future).

Update

  • The last folder selected when importing Update Reports is now stored and used as the default folder the next time the import function is invoked (huge time saver)

  • Multiple Update Reports can now be imported

    • Update Reports are imported automatically if no errors are found (no prompt)

    • Only Update Reports with errors are displayed automatically (and must be saved after changing)

  • Notes in the Update Report now appears to the right of the Update entry fields

  • Fixed bug where canceling out of the file select dialog box when importing Update Reports resulted in an unfriendly error

  • Fixed problem where the initial Update Progress window could appear off screen

  • Fixed problem where importing only updated tasks where a Remaining Duration was in date format would cause an incorrect error in the Update Report.

Macro-Micro Rollup

  • Improvements in aligning the macro tasks when rolled-up from the micro, including reflecting the dependency types and lags

  • Removed non-needed date constraints on the initial creation of the network logic

Analyzer

  • Touchpoints/Checkpoints/Deliverables with a date constraint in the future are now flagged as an error if they have a predecessor(s)

  • A check is now made on the default working time. If found to be not 8 hours/day, the user is prompted to reset it to the default 8 hours/day.

    • NOTE: fastProject only works on an 8 hours/day working day, so the user must change the default working time to 8 hours/day, otherwise all durations may get changed automatically, and not reflect the intended duration.

Reports

  • Can now customize the long duration of the WBS Analysis (still 30 days be default)

  • Quick WBS Analysis of near-term tasks > 15 days changed to near-0term tasks > 1 month (30 days)

Documentation

  • Latest dashboard added to S-Phone Wigglechart.xltm used in the Training class