SOFTWARE UPDATE RELEASES
22 February 2021 v2.0.6.3
Enhancement
- Improvement to Manage Chart options (see post)
1 February 2021 v2.0.6.2
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
13 October 2020 v2.0.5.1
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
29 June 2020 v2.0.4.0
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
4 June 2020 v2.0.3.5
Bug Fix
- Error While connecting to P6 Web Services resolved.
10 May 2020 v2.0.3.4
Bug Fix
- Trial startup includes links to purchase licenses
9 May 2020 v2.0.3.3
Fix
- Minor Amendment to licensing mechanism
4 May 2020 v2.0.3.2
Fix
- Trials now indicate remaining days upon launch.
3 May 2020 v2.0.3.1
Enhancement
- Improved license activation method
15 April 2020 v2.0.2.1
Fix
- Annotation positioning fix
14 April 2020 v2.0.2.0
Enhancements
- Additional Shape Fill Patterns, see here
23 March 2020 v2.0.1.0
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 Webservices connections now remembers correct DB instance
8 January 2020 v2.0.0.3
Fixes:
- Fixes applied to P6 Web Services connection importing of date fields
- Hidden chart image and location axes corrected
Page Break
10 December 2019 v2.0.0.1
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 codlings on location axis
Enhancement:
- New splash screen, logo and icon
20 August 2019 v1.5.2.2
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.
12 August 2019 v1.5.2.1
New Features
- New functionality of Paste Wizard to enable mapping of spreadsheet data fields into dataset.
1 July 2019 v1.5.1.8
Fix
- Correctly loads P6 bootstrap files for CloudDatabases where no password is supplied
28 June 2019 v1.5.1.7
New Features
- Import multiple projects from P6 when connecting via P6 Webservices
10 June 2019 v1.5.1.6
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
25 Mar 2019 v1.5.1
New Features
- Option for network license, 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
4 Feb 2019 v1.5.0.1
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
21 Jan 2019 v1.4.1.2
New Feature
See our post here for more details
- Data Import and Synchronization to Asta Powerproject
18 Dec 2018 v1.3.2.0
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 (color, 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
03 Dec 2018 v1.3.1.3
Fixes
- Problem resolved for Oracle P6 users who had viewed Tools Options in previous versions
Enhancements
- Next/Previous and Close buttons improved
- Oracle connection sting 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)
18 Nov 2018 v1.3.0.1
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
14 Nov 2018 v1.2.0.5
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 minimized, 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.
9 Oct 2018 v1.2.0.4
Fixes
- Fixed issue on Highlighters where position axis was reversed
8 Oct 2018 v1.2.0.3
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
19 Sep 2018 v1.2.0.2
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
2 Sep 2018 v1.2.0.1
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
31 Aug 2018 v1.2.0.0
View our article highlighting v1.2 here
New Feature
- Chart options dialog enhanced and put into tabs
- Specify the font type, size and color 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
1 May 2018 v1.1.0.9
New Feature
- EPS structure now supported when importing from P6
27 Apr 2018 v1.1.0.8
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.
7 Apr 2018 v1.1.0.7
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%)
4 Apr 2018 v1.1.0.6
Fixes
- Paper sizes correctly listed in page setup
- Parallel shapes correctly drawn when end is before start
3 Apr 2018 v1.1.0.5
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
2 Mar 2018 v1.1.0.4
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
11 Feb 2018 v1.1.0.3
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 Libary
- Fixed an issue where highlighters with only a start value would be drawn off page.
29 Jan 2018 v1.1.0.2
Issue Fixes
- Re-Synching from MS Project no longer creates duplicate tasks
29 Jan 2018 v1.1.0.1
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.
22 Jan 2018 v1.0.0.7
New Features
- MS Project import (MPP files) now available on File menu
- Implemented ability to sync MS Project files (similar to existing P6 Synchronization features)
Improvements
- Renamed Top Image to Chart Image
- Improved general behavior 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
21 Dec 2017 v1.0.0.6
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
18 Dec 2017 v1.0.0.5
New Features
- Added color 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
07 Dec 2017 v1.0.0.4
Note – Installation file size increase to ~61Mb
Enhancements
- Preliminary MS Project Import (*.MPP Files) – from FILE | OPEN menu
- Added font size and color choices to timeline
- Added option to show week beginning (default for weeks) or week number.
- Added line thickness and color options for year/month /week
- Added font size and color choices for position axes
- Added line thickness and color 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
23 Nov 2017 v1.0.0.3
- Improvements to Export to PDF functionality
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