Change Log

Fixes: 

• Revoke license functionality now working.
• Activation codes now working in all timezones

Enhancements: 

• Usage tracking enabled for enterprise users

Fix

• Update to MPP Import/Sync for issue where file contains baseline dates

Fix

Updated application certificates (see Download page)

Fix

• Highlighter text when using both date and location values now rotates correctly.

Enhancement

• Minor upgrade to .NET

Enhancement

Improvements to Interactive Viewer (See More Details) including Menu on/off toggle button. Select/Un-Select all ShapeCode buttons.

New Feature

Generate Interactive Viewer files of charts (See More Details)

Fixes

• MS Project date handling for exceptional dates

Enhancement

• MS Project import now includes additional numeric fields, up to Number20
• MS Project import now indicates Custom Field Alias name – eg. Number 1 (Start Location)

Fix

• Better Handling of UTC date formats from MS Project Data

Enhancement

Both ID and Unique ID used as Name field from MS Project Imports. Previously only ID was used.
eg. Name Previously displayed as “56“, Now displayed as “56 (UID=1856)“

Enhancement

• Improved handling of legacy Turbo-Chart files

Enhancement

• Minor  upgrade to .NET

Fixes

• resolved legacy Highlighters crashing upon deletion or pasting from clipboard

See article here on updates

New Features

• Highlighters provide preview of Highlighter line
• Improved Location Code display formatting, including Background and border colour, text colour, text rotation and location code grid line formatting
• Location code dialog now modeless and can stay as edits are made

Enhancement

• Location Codes now set to Task Location Library
• Print Preview Mode now in FILE Menu

See article here on updates

New Features

• Highlighters now support the ability to display text at the top and/or bottom (or left and/or right).
• Highlighter text can now be rotated to be aligned with the axis text

Enhancement

• Highlight dialog is now modeless and can stay as edits are made
• The active highlighter is now shown with a green border

See article here on updates

New Features

• Ability to replace an image on a page layout graphic
• Ability to replace an image on a chart graphic

Enhancement

• Chart Annotations window is now modeless, allowing users to select and edit annotations on the chart whilst the window is open
• Chart Annotations window includes details of each annotation
• When switching between data sets the selected task is unhighlighted

Fix

• DateTime/location annotations stay in the correct position after editing
• Ctrl+E export to PDF (as menu suggests)

Enhancement

• Check for missing datasets on load, create if required

Fix

• New Safran v21 connections

Fix

• Improved loading from P6 Web Services Multiple Databases

Fix

• Updated Security Certificate

Enhancement

Improvement to Manage Chart options (see post)

New Feature

• Ability to display or hide all shape codes from the legend (see post)

Enhancement

• Delete a dataset is now much quicker
• Icons improved for changing shape order in legend

Bug Fix

• Switching views correctly updates the legend list at the correct time

New Feature

• Added browse button for PrmBootstrapv2.xml in Tools>Options Menu

Enhancement

• Added Locations codes to MS Project import and re-sync
• Added Location codes to Safran import and re-sync
• Add option to Safran re-sync new tasks

Bug Fix

• Safran re-sync using the active dataset

New Feature

• Added import menu links to help videos
• Trial user emails

Enhancement

• Changed the Paste Wizard expected column names for Start/End location codes.
• Added location code import to P6 Web Services connections
• Added location code to import P6 connections

Bug Fix

• Trial users first email

Fix

• Error While connecting to P6 Web Services resolved.

Fix

• Trial startup includes links to purchase licences

Fix

• Minor Amendment to licensing mechanism

Fix

• Trials now indicate remaining days upon launch.

Enhancement

• Improved licence activation method

Fix

• Annotation positioning fix

Enhancements

Additional Shape Fill Patterns, see here

Fixes

• Support for cookies when connecting to P6 Web Services
• Support for TLS1.2

Enhancements

• Support for time (HH:mm) on Date Highlighters when using Day time units
• P6 Web Services connections now remembers correct DB instance

Fixes

• Fixes applied to P6 Web Services connection importing of date fields
• Hidden chart image and location axes corrected

New Feature

• Location Coding , including:
• Location code library, saving & opening location library files
• Add, Delete and Paste Location code library
• Additional paste wizard field for location coding
• Chart options to display location codings on location axis

 Enhancement

• New splash screen, logo and icon

Bug Fix

• Warn if there is no active dataset when trying to import (all sources – P6, MSP etc)

 Enhancement

• For Asta PowerProject importing, use the bar name if the task name is empty.

New Features

• New functionality of Paste Wizard to enable mapping of spreadsheet data fields into dataset.

Fix

• Correctly loads P6 bootstrap files for CloudDatabases where no password is supplied

New Features

• Import multiple projects from P6 when connecting via P6 Web Services

New Features

• Added ‘day’ option to Timeline scale
• Dates will include hours when ActiveChart using ‘day’

Enhancements

• Properties time now correctly display time when printing (e.g. 14:00 would have displayed as 02:00)
• P6WS out of Beta
• P6WS now has a remember password option

Bug Fixes

• Copied end shapes will not affect other shapes
• TC will not crash when trying to import dates with NA from MSP

New Features

• Option for network licence, with concurrency and checkout

Fixes

• Primavera P6 connectivity via Web Services now work over https connections
• Primavera P6 WebServices offers database instance choice on login

Fixes

• Text occasionally not displaying in rectangle shapes
• Correctly detecting P6 Bootstrap.xml file for P6 Release 18

Enhancements

• Icons added to various dialogs (mostly p6, project, safran, PP)
• Removed internal references to Start/FinishDate2,3

New Features

• Ability to connect to P6 via Web Services

New Feature

See our post here for more details

• Data Import and Synchronisation to Asta Powerproject

Fixes

• Fixed reversed week numbers
• Fixed showing critical paths in multiple datasets

Enhancements

See our post here for more details

• Criticality shown as a border rather than just red (thus retaining the original shape)
• Criticality display options (colour, thickness and opacity) can be set in the chart options.
• End Shapes now show criticality
• End shapes can now be clicked to activate the task

Improvements

• Modified activation process to prevent users clicking the button multiple times

Fixes

• Problem resolved for Oracle P6 users who had viewed Tools Options in previous versions

Enhancements

• Next/Previous and Close buttons improved
• Oracle connection string removed from options as not needed.

New Features

• Can show critical path on all datasets
• Import of Asta files available from File Open menu (not yet re-syncing)

Fixes

• Shape start/end shapes (for milestones) can be clicked to activate task

Enhancements

• Task shape selector changed from radio button to tab

New Features

• Triangle shapes (increasing and decreasing) supported. More information available on this post

Fixes

• Printing now supports page orientation

Enhancements

• Printing generally improved for printing to paper, plus more reliably to pdf.
• Zooming with scroll wheel now zooms to mouse location
• Revised start-up/trial process. (Window minimised, EULA first, buttons on activation moved).
• Trial Sample File updated

New Features

• Use Alt + mouse to pan the page (no need to use scroll bars)
• Use touch (pinch/zoom and pan) to move paper.

• Fixes

• Fixed issue on Highlighters where position axis was reversed

Fixes

• Fix issue where highlighters with finish position less than start appear incorrectly when position scale is reversed.
• Do not include deleted tasks when importing/re-syncing from P6
• Do not crash if chart has no active DataSets
• File New is zoomed to fit

New Feature

• Added Project Properties – more in our article on Using Project Properties
• Project Properties and other fields that can be embedded in page layouts (using {} )

Enhancement

• Legend drawing slightly improved
• Title added to project (for printing) when importing from XER

Fixes

• Chart does not keep best fitting when moving between tasks
• Copying page graphics does not cause multiple layouts to highlight
• Page Layout Highlights removed when page layout closed

New Feature

• Ability to hide tasks on chart – useful for checking only the graphics/highlighters etc on a chart
• Ability to hide calendars on chart

Enhancement

• Legend will always scale to fit the space available
• Speed of moving shapes in the legend increased
• Moved Up/Down buttons to the legend tab (from the task window)

Fixes

• Opening charts with annotations linked to task that does not exist
• Can download sample files a second time (it will create a new folder)
• Zoom to fit after importing from P6

View our article highlighting v1.2 here

New Feature

• Chart options dialog enhanced and put into tabs
• Specify the font type, size and colour for the legend text
• Line styles (dotted etc) added for timeline and distance graph
• Fill down added to task, highlighters and shapes datagrids

Enhancement

• Support for multi-region dates (region on PC, not just EN_US)
• Legend auto scales if too wide
• Warn if trying to resync with no datasource
• Unknown data columns types are ignored when pasting from clipboard to activity datagrid
• Sliders converted to spinners for opacity/blend etc
• Various dialog layout tweaks

Fixes

• Will not crash if trying to create a new shape (empty row removed and replaced with button)
• Fix issue where annotations do not draw correctly because the date field is not set
• Will not crash if tasks do not have values when using best fit

New Feature

• EPS structure now supported when importing from P6

Improvements

• Added dataset name to warning about importing into used dataset.
• Improved task text position when dates are reversed.
• Added line number to logging
• Renaming chart name updates the chart tab
• Removed the warning when adding a chart image that is not ratio of 6:1 (no longer relevant)

Fixes

• Creating new chart sets a default dataset and zooms chart to fit
• Fixed error importing from p6 Oracle database.

New Features

• Ability to rotate the chart image
• Ability to reverse the timescale axis

Enhancements

• Chart image will not be restricted to 6:1 ratio and its maximum proportion of the chart size can be controlled. (default is 50%)

Fixes

• Paper sizes correctly listed in page setup
• Parallel shapes correctly drawn when end is before start

New features

• Ability to swap start and end positions of a task
• Ability to specify custom page size, and set the paper height and width. (height and width of zero is ignored

Enhancements

• Email alerts are now sent securely over https instead of http

Fixes

• Bold and Italic chart annotations now save and load correctly
• Bold and Italic page annotations now save and load correctly
• The selected page size now selects correctly in the page layout

New features

• Ability to use dotted and dashed lines for shapes

Enhancements

• Ability to create a text box annotation linked to task description in single click

Fixes

• Issue with task text sometimes not appearing is fixed
• Text annotations linked to tasks no longer move if the top image or left timeline is changed or hidden.

Issues

• Previous text boxes linked to tasks may have moved slightly depending on tope image and left timeline axis – see above

New features

• Added a menu link to download the help pdf

Enhancements

• Legend auto scales if there are too many shapes displayed to fit (vertical only)
• Pasting into ShapeLibrary from clipboard much faster

Fixes

• Fixed the error where the “TEXT SIZE” was not a valid header on Pasting to Shape Library
• Fixed an issue where highlighters with only a start value would be drawn off page.

Issue Fixes

• Re-Synching from MS Project no longer creates duplicate tasks

New Features

• Ability to change chart orientation from horizontal to vertical (set per chart in the Chart Options)

Issue Fixes

• Slow responsiveness when selecting some text items.

New Features

• MS Project import (MPP files) now available on File menu
• Implemented ability to sync MS Project files (similar to existing P6 Synchronisation features)

Improvements

• Renamed Top Image to Chart Image
• Improved general behaviour of annotation dragging
• Auto-fit after import to view full range of imported data

Issue Fixes

• ‘Bring to front’ and ‘Send to back’ options for the graphic
• Fixed issues where the task was edited via green lines and related annotations did not move instantly.
• XER load shape library works as expected when using File>Primavera>Add Primavera XER option

New Features

• Added ability to move items in Legend

Improvements

• Default shape changed to line (instead of parallel)
• Sped up pasting of data in task dialog
• Selection/click on milestones enabled
• Handled P6 dates (*’s and A’s)

Issue Fixes

• Fixed error of displaying only half arrows
• Saving and loading annotations now working
• Changing end shapes now re-draws chart
• Fixed losing critical path on mouse over

New Features

• Added colour blending in addition to transparency option for 2nd & 3rd data sets.
• Added ability to offset shape codes
• Add ability to offset 2nd/3rd DataSets

Improvements

• Speed up Deleting tasks
• Draw black border around milestone shapes
• Apply opacity to milestone Shapes
• Text not shown for non-primary DataSets

Issue Fixes

• Fixed Safran Re-sync
• Show Text across page if item has same start/end (i.e. is a point)
• XER date loader
• XER import settings memory
• XER import to include load shape file

Note – Installation file size increase to ~61Mb

Enhancements

• Preliminary MS Project Import (*.MPP Files) – from FILE | OPEN menu
• Added font size and colour choices to timeline
• Added option to show week beginning (default for weeks) or week number.
• Added line thickness and colour options for year/month /week
• Added font size and colour choices for position axes
• Added line thickness and colour ops for position line

Issue Fixes

• Fixed a problem showing a scaled top image if the scale is reversed
• Fixed showing highlighters if the scale is reversed

• Improvements to Export to PDF functionality