Take beta 8 out for a spin

Liz Marley lizard at omnigroup.com
Wed Oct 18 16:12:45 PDT 2006


We've just posted beta 8, and would appreciate it if you'd download  
it, try it out for a bit, and send us some feedback. Beta 7 licenses  
expire this weekend, so grab beta 8 to keep using OmniPlan through  
November 20th.

Here's a list of some of the new features we've added recently.
Added Total Cost, Total Uses, Total Hours to the Resource Info  
inspector, and as optional columns to the resource outline.
Rounded durations are now shown with indicators of how they were  
rounded. For instance, typing 5 minutes ("5m") while hours are the  
smallest value displayed will result in ">0h" while 55 minutes will  
display as "<1h". Full precision is shown while editing.
Sort submenu added under Structure for sorting tasks by any outline  
column value.
Mini Pop-Up Calendar added when choosing dates in the outline (not  
added yet for dates in the inspectors and sheets).
When "Show Off-Hours" is chosen in View Options, off-hours are now  
displayed in gray in the gantt chart. (The color is configurable in  
the Project Colors inspector.)
The resource timeline view now supports multiple selection via  
command-click.
Added controls to the Calendar View for clearing calendar  
customizations and restoring a custom calendar to the defaults. New  
outline columns can show which resources have customized calendars  
and which do not.
Currency format is now arbitrary.
Added a preference for whether the Return key should create a new row  
or not.
Added View menu option for folding multi-line text in the outlines or  
not.
Added embedded versioning scheme for Web/HTML templates, so that when  
we change the tags for substitution into these formats we can warn  
users that their custom templates may be out of date and require  
updating.
Added new controls for image export formats to allow export of gantt  
or outline or both.
Added leveling options to allow leveling only the selection and to  
optionally keep tasks from being rescheduled before a given date.
Added option to display/hide date constraints on the Gantt chart.
Allow adding resource assignments to milestones, since MS Project  
allows this. Import/export them correctly to MS Project formats.
Headers and Footers for printing. Currently the header defaults to  
the document name but can be changed in the printing controls. The  
footer just shows the page number.


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