fastProject 4.11.5 Released

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General

  • Date format for Start/Finis dates now set to only dd/mm/yy (depends on country)

  • Filter 3 Tasks option added under TOOLS > Filter Task

  • Auto-bullets now not automatically set if the word “Done” (for Doneness Criteria) is recognized.

  • Critical Path IDs are now hidden whenever you do a Incomplete tasks, Close all, Breakdown, Reset, Tidy Up, Analyzer, Open a file

  • Targets

    • When adding a Target, if the milestone has a Deadline, the initial Target date becomes the Deadline and the Deadline is automatically removed from the Wiggle milestone when the user creates the Target.

    • “Exclude from FTTM Dashboard option added to target dialog box

  • Review Targets

    • Cause of Change button added (Notes open automatically if not shown)

    • Clicking Cause of Change auto-populates the change

    • Positioned in the top right of the screen and Notes now open automatically and re-ordred buttons

    • Is automatically invoked after an update (can be turned off in fastProject Options)

  • Applying Show Selected when only on a summary task(s) will show all non-completed subtasks

  • Notes

    • Buttons with icons removed to two buttons labeled Add Date and Add Action

    • Auto-bullets removed

    • Whenever Notes are opened or saved, any lines with an empty date stamp or action are removed

    • Blank lines at the end of Notes are automatically removed

    • A blank line is inserted between the dated line item and the notes for the first dated line item

  • English grammar corrected for some functions!

Build

  • fastBuild

    • Removed (old) support for .pzd files

    • When importing a fastBuild file, a check is now made to see whether any planning had started (previously any work done was overwritten without any warning).

    • Added an Open Example button to quickly import the S-Phone training class file. Targets for the last two milestones are automatically set at 12 and 15 months out.

    • Fixed problem where extra lines are now removed when importing the Project Success criteria

    • Bug fixed where when a fastBuild file was opened, subsequent saves were not saved to the original filename, but to the temporary filename fastBuild1.fastBuild.

  • Converting a .mpp file now always invokes the fastProject defaults

Analyzer

  • View/Delete Deadline functionality moved from Extended Tests to the Negative Float test

  • Added ability an extra function under “Show Preds and Succs” dropdown “Show Preds and Succs With Completed Activities”

Update

  • Moved Import Updates to the ribbon

  • When Update Report is imported, a check is now made to see if the columns have been filtered, and if so, the user is prompted if they want to turn filtering off. This overcomes the problem where an activity owner has filtered on their name but then not removed the filter. The Update Report only imports visible (filtered) tasks.

  • Import Only Updated Tasks

    • If no tasks are found to be updated, now automatically runs the Update Progress wizard

    • Fixed bug where updates were still imported, even though they were not updated

  • Added ability to open the last Update Report (under the Import Updates function)

  • Wigglechart will now work with Sharepoint (Beta)

  • Refresh cheat sheet added under Update Progress > Info group. Opens in Wordpad to allow formatting, images, etc. and can be customized.

  • Last Updated can be accessed from either the Update Progress or the Import Updates, and distinguishes between the method used

Wigglechart

  • Added a function to change the Program Name (cell A4) in the Wigglechart (REFRESH > Wigglechart > Change Name/Location > Change Program Name

Inspector

  • NEW FEATURE: added the ability to the critical path to multiple targets

FTTM Dashboard

  • Completely re-written and updated with more advanced portfolio analysis

  • Update functionality now included in the Dashboard file

  • Can now toggle between different criteria metrics (absolute vs. likelihood of hitting Target)

  • Create an Update File right from the Dashboard file

  • Only functionality remaining in fastProject is the Include/Exclude in Dashboard flag settings on the Target

  • Added two new functions: View All Included Targets and View All Excluded Targets

Macro-Micro Roll-up

  • Fixed problem where inactive tasks in the micro were included in the roll-up, thereby potentially causing a mis-match in the dates rolled-up

Report

  • Dashboard…

  • Moved roll-up Dashboard to the Report section in the ribbon

  • Header in Focus This Week form now states correctly “Focus This Week”