From kc at omnigroup.com Wed Jan 31 15:36:35 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Wed Jan 31 15:36:38 2007 Subject: OmniPlan 1.1 beta 1 is now available! Message-ID: <25A84C3C-07B5-4D42-A05C-15FB98C9A355@omnigroup.com> (Well, color me embarrassed! I just realized that we never announced to this mailing list that we shipped 1.0 on December 13. But hopefully you all know already, so let me turn to some more timely news...) OmniPlan 1.1 beta 1 is now available! This release includes general speed and stability improvements as well as printing and Microsoft Project import/export improvements. AppleScript support is also improved in this release and we plan to continue working on this for the OmniPlan 1.1 final release. For more detailed information on the fixes in this release, you can read our release notes [http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/ releasenotes/]. Please keep in mind that this release is still under development. Your feedback will help us improve the software, and we apologize if it crashes, corrupts your files, or otherwise misbehaves. A more stable release [version 1.0] is also available. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can contact us directly via our support page [http:// omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/support] or by using the Send Feedback feature in your copy of OmniPlan. You can download OmniPlan 1.1 beta 1 now from . Enjoy! Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Wed Feb 14 19:16:15 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Wed Feb 14 19:16:21 2007 Subject: OmniPlan 1.1 beta 2 is now available Message-ID: <66DE6BC2-78E5-4BA0-A208-EAB38654D10E@omnigroup.com> OmniPlan 1.1 beta 2 is now available! This beta release includes several improvements to import/export, printing, AppleScript support and performance. For more detailed information on the fixes in this release, you can read our release notes at . Please keep in mind that this release is still under development. Your feedback will help us improve the software, and we apologize if it crashes, corrupts your files, or otherwise misbehaves. A more stable release (version 1.0) is also available. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can contact us directly via our support web page (at ) or by using the Send Feedback feature in your copy of OmniPlan. You can download the new beta now at . Enjoy! Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Thu Feb 22 20:12:35 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Thu Feb 22 20:12:39 2007 Subject: OmniPlan 1.1 beta 3 is now available Message-ID: OmniPlan 1.1 beta 3 is now available! This beta release fixes a few crashes and improves import/export. We're also nearly done with the improvements to Applescript support that we have planned for 1.1. For more detailed information on the fixes in this release, you can read our release notes at . Please keep in mind that this release is still under development. Your feedback will help us improve the software, and we apologize if it crashes, corrupts your files, or otherwise misbehaves. A more stable release (version 1.0) is also available. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can contact us directly via our support web page (at ) or by using the Send Feedback feature in your copy of OmniPlan. You can download the new beta now at . Enjoy! Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Feb 23 07:28:14 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Feb 23 07:28:55 2007 Subject: OmniPlan trial licenses are available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <885E57FE-E4C5-48EB-98B7-C87A11F7E0B0@omnigroup.com> If you run OmniPlan without a license, it will limit your documents to twenty items--which isn't really enough for most people to evaluate whether it will meet their needs. To allow people to fully evaluate our products before committing to a purchase, we offer free one-day trial licenses at . These trial licenses will unlock OmniPlan's complete functionality. Enjoy! Ken From tuomo.suominen at wsoy.fi Fri Feb 23 12:01:47 2007 From: tuomo.suominen at wsoy.fi (Tuomo Suominen) Date: Fri Feb 23 12:01:19 2007 Subject: Tuomo Suominen/Kustantamopalvelut/Yleinen kirjallisuus/WSOY/fi is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 16.02.2007 and will not return until 26.02.2007. From kc at omnigroup.com Thu Mar 8 16:43:00 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Thu Mar 8 16:43:03 2007 Subject: OmniPlan 1.1 beta 4 is now available Message-ID: <8400B700-A3AD-4705-B12F-877D40C8E030@omnigroup.com> OmniPlan 1.1 beta 4 is now available! This beta release contains plenty of stability, import/export, printing, and AppleScript support improvements. We have completed the AppleScript changes that were planned for 1.1, so if you run into any problems there, be sure to let us know. For more detailed information on the fixes in this release, you can read our release notes at . Please keep in mind that this release is still under development. Your feedback will help us improve the software, and we apologize if it crashes, corrupts your files, or otherwise misbehaves. A more stable release (version 1.0) is also available. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can contact us directly via our support web page (at ) or by using the Send Feedback feature in your copy of OmniPlan. You can download the new beta now at . Enjoy! Ken From ben.arch at mac.com Tue Mar 13 12:50:31 2007 From: ben.arch at mac.com (Ben Tate) Date: Tue Mar 13 12:50:37 2007 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <55755868-1D47-48EC-A74B-9D7D7C761164@mac.com> Kind Regards, Benjamin Tate ben.arch@mac.com for Quentin Alder Architect Tel 0(117)968-3111 Mob 0(790)274-0083 UK From ben.arch at mac.com Wed Mar 14 12:14:52 2007 From: ben.arch at mac.com (Ben Tate) Date: Wed Mar 14 12:15:01 2007 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <934BD046-6662-41A6-8EF4-A0AAE3771B34@mac.com> Kind Regards, Benjamin Tate ben.arch@mac.com for Quentin Alder Architect Tel 0(117)968-3111 Mob 0(790)274-0083 UK From doug at lerner.net Thu Mar 22 23:22:35 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Thu Mar 22 23:22:26 2007 Subject: Calendar customization question Message-ID: <646B6120-EDC2-43A6-B595-B65F4F23C4EC@lerner.net> Is is possible to customize a work calendar for a person-resource by day, or only by week? Thanks, doug From doug at lerner.net Thu Mar 22 23:24:15 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Thu Mar 22 23:24:06 2007 Subject: Priority value - possible to reverse? Message-ID: I notice that the priority is "highest value has the most priority". I don't know about other people but I'm used to thinking in terms of "priority 1" is first priority, second priority is LESS priority than first priority, etc. Is it possible to reverse the meaning in OmniPlan so it corresponds with common English usage? Thanks, doug From doug at lerner.net Thu Mar 22 23:47:09 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Thu Mar 22 23:47:00 2007 Subject: Resetting a work schedule to default? Message-ID: <992EF5BC-EC53-46F0-8FBE-72EB479B9512@lerner.net> For some reason, even though March and May show the work schedule following the normal work week, April has the work-week's all greyed out. Is there a way I can easily tell April to use the normal project work week, rather than setting each week in the calendar one-by-one? Thanks, doug From doug at lerner.net Fri Mar 23 00:11:24 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Fri Mar 23 00:11:16 2007 Subject: One task always starting too early - why? Message-ID: I have one person whose work schedule is set up to not start until 5/1/07. When I level the project, all her tasks correctly start after that date - except one keeps starting at the beginning of April. I've tried deleting and re-creating that task, but it always starts at the beginning of April. There are no task dependencies. Any idea why this one pesky task is always showing up starting early? Thanks, doug From doug at lerner.net Fri Mar 23 02:59:18 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Fri Mar 23 02:59:10 2007 Subject: Styling differently prioritized tasks? Message-ID: <5E5334A8-7B0D-422D-8296-36F4E536DEA4@lerner.net> Is it possible to set different styles for tasks based on their priority, so, for example, all tasks with priority "3" all appear in the same color in the Gantt chart? Thanks, doug From doug at lerner.net Fri Mar 23 03:31:30 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Fri Mar 23 03:31:21 2007 Subject: csv export questions Message-ID: I was looking at the csv export and a couple of things immediately struck me as odd: 1. The hours in the records don't seem to match up with the hours in the task list. Is there a bug there? 2. The priority values don't seem to get exported. Is that true? Anything other precautions I should know about? Thanks, doug From doug at lerner.net Fri Mar 23 04:15:36 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Fri Mar 23 04:15:27 2007 Subject: OmniPlan in active development? Message-ID: <3D3E489B-13CD-4966-812A-F13CCE69B732@lerner.net> I am trying OmniPlan for the first time today. I found it easy to use and create a nice-looking, useful Gantt Chart. I notice the software is still in v1.0 though, so before purchasing I was wondering - do people who are users find it well-supported? Is it in active development? Thanks! doug From philippe.hennes at openknowledge.de Fri Mar 23 04:08:58 2007 From: philippe.hennes at openknowledge.de (Philippe Hennes) Date: Fri Mar 23 04:42:43 2007 Subject: csv export questions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4603B54A.8030202@openknowledge.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Doug, don't trust the MS Project XML Export. In RC1 the matching between resources and tasks get mixed up... regards Philippe Doug Lerner schrieb: > I was looking at the csv export and a couple of things immediately > struck me as odd: > > 1. The hours in the records don't seem to match up with the hours in the > task list. Is there a bug there? > > 2. The priority values don't seem to get exported. Is that true? > > Anything other precautions I should know about? > > Thanks, > > doug > > _______________________________________________ > OmniPlan-Users mailing list > OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGA7VK7Gg5oXmXipYRArbdAKCh/+F43yUS6cSwUc76ueyG+3jouACgv3iG cvx4qo6aLzfK0JEzviuY31A= =18mW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From doug at lerner.net Fri Mar 23 06:50:16 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Fri Mar 23 06:50:08 2007 Subject: OmniPlan in active development? In-Reply-To: <3B91519A-4A63-423E-A963-C3BBC7A95A07@tch3.com> References: <3D3E489B-13CD-4966-812A-F13CCE69B732@lerner.net> <3B91519A-4A63-423E-A963-C3BBC7A95A07@tch3.com> Message-ID: The only reason I was asking is because the version I downloaded from the site today was 1.0 and since it came out at the end of last year I thought it might be natural for the version to be like 1.01 or something like that since several months have passed since the original release. doug On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:46 PM, C High wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2007, at 07:15 , Doug Lerner wrote: > >> I am trying OmniPlan for the first time today. I found it easy to >> use and create a nice-looking, useful Gantt Chart. I notice the >> software is still in v1.0 though, so before purchasing I was >> wondering - do people who are users find it well-supported? Is it >> in active development? > > OmniPlan is very new; what version are you expecting it to be? > It is under active development. Check the OmniGroup's website. > > > > Shows there's 1.1RC2 available for download. > > > > cheers, > Clair > -- > tch3.com > > From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Mar 23 07:36:55 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Mar 23 07:37:04 2007 Subject: OmniPlan in active development? In-Reply-To: References: <3D3E489B-13CD-4966-812A-F13CCE69B732@lerner.net> <3B91519A-4A63-423E-A963-C3BBC7A95A07@tch3.com> Message-ID: On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > The only reason I was asking is because the version I downloaded > from the site today was 1.0 and since it came out at the end of > last year I thought it might be natural for the version to be like > 1.01 or something like that since several months have passed since > the original release. OmniPlan is under very active development: we've had six public beta releases since we shipped 1.0 three months ago. For details of what changed in each release, see the release notes at . While this mailing list has been pretty quiet so far, you'll find that there is a very active community on the OmniPlan web forums at . (There have been over a thousand posts in 261 threads. Make that 262...) Our support ninjas do try to monitor both the mailing list and the forums, but the fastest way to get a response from us is to send email to them directly at omniplan@omnigroup.com or by selecting "Send Feedback" from the Help menu. We try to respond to every message within one business day, and often respond even more quickly than that. Hope this helps! Ken From philippe.hennes at openknowledge.de Fri Mar 23 07:10:48 2007 From: philippe.hennes at openknowledge.de (Philippe Hennes) Date: Fri Mar 23 07:43:45 2007 Subject: OmniPlan in active development? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/beta/ This is the place were you can download the Beta Version ( Version 1.1 RC 2, 10.3 MB Disk Image) Regards Philippe On 23.03.2007 14:50 Uhr, "Doug Lerner" wrote: > The only reason I was asking is because the version I downloaded from > the site today was 1.0 and since it came out at the end of last year > I thought it might be natural for the version to be like 1.01 or > something like that since several months have passed since the > original release. > > doug > > On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:46 PM, C High wrote: > >> >> On Mar 23, 2007, at 07:15 , Doug Lerner wrote: >> >>> I am trying OmniPlan for the first time today. I found it easy to >>> use and create a nice-looking, useful Gantt Chart. I notice the >>> software is still in v1.0 though, so before purchasing I was >>> wondering - do people who are users find it well-supported? Is it >>> in active development? >> >> OmniPlan is very new; what version are you expecting it to be? >> It is under active development. Check the OmniGroup's website. >> >> >> >> Shows there's 1.1RC2 available for download. >> >> >> >> cheers, >> Clair >> -- >> tch3.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OmniPlan-Users mailing list > OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users From Thane.Norton at wacom.com Fri Mar 23 09:00:50 2007 From: Thane.Norton at wacom.com (V. Thane Norton III) Date: Fri Mar 23 09:01:35 2007 Subject: OmniPlan in active development? In-Reply-To: <3D3E489B-13CD-4966-812A-F13CCE69B732@lerner.net> References: <3D3E489B-13CD-4966-812A-F13CCE69B732@lerner.net> Message-ID: Doug, I have been using OmniPlan on an as needed basis since the first open beta. Every problem I have had that I have told them about has been addressed. Their support ninjas are second to none. I highly recommend OmniPlan to anyone who is looking to manage individual small to medium sized projects. In my mind, it is not well suited (yet) for managing large projects, or large numbers of projects. With that in mind, I bought a copy for every Macintosh user in our group as soon as the product was in the store. On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:15 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > I am trying OmniPlan for the first time today. I found it easy to > use and create a nice-looking, useful Gantt Chart. I notice the > software is still in v1.0 though, so before purchasing I was > wondering - do people who are users find it well-supported? Is it > in active development? > > Thanks! > > doug ----------------------------------------- V. Thane Norton III Macintosh Software Engineer Wacom Technology Corporation phone: 360.896.9833 x172 mailto:Thane.Norton@wacom.com From lizard at omnigroup.com Fri Mar 23 10:43:30 2007 From: lizard at omnigroup.com (Liz Marley) Date: Fri Mar 23 10:43:32 2007 Subject: csv export questions In-Reply-To: <4603B54A.8030202@openknowledge.de> References: <4603B54A.8030202@openknowledge.de> Message-ID: <0610A9B6-9C7B-4E67-B615-08C869FC450A@omnigroup.com> Philippe, Your comments have me a bit puzzled. Which version are you referring to, 1.0 RC1 (released a couple months ago) or 1.1 RC1 (released about a week ago)? Is this an issue you've told us about? We've been continually improving our Project import and export, so if there is a serious data corruption like this, we would really appreciate more details so that we can address it. Please reply here, or better yet, email our ninjas (omniplan@omnigroup.com) with the details of the bug you're seeing. Thank you, Liz Marley Software Test Pilot On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Philippe Hennes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Doug, > > don't trust the MS Project XML Export. In RC1 the matching between > resources and tasks get mixed up... > > regards > Philippe > > Doug Lerner schrieb: >> I was looking at the csv export and a couple of things immediately >> struck me as odd: >> >> 1. The hours in the records don't seem to match up with the hours >> in the >> task list. Is there a bug there? >> >> 2. The priority values don't seem to get exported. Is that true? >> >> Anything other precautions I should know about? >> >> Thanks, >> >> doug >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OmniPlan-Users mailing list >> OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFGA7VK7Gg5oXmXipYRArbdAKCh/+F43yUS6cSwUc76ueyG+3jouACgv3iG > cvx4qo6aLzfK0JEzviuY31A= > =18mW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > OmniPlan-Users mailing list > OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users > From doug at lerner.net Fri Mar 23 18:02:34 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Fri Mar 23 18:02:30 2007 Subject: OmniPlan in active development? In-Reply-To: References: <3D3E489B-13CD-4966-812A-F13CCE69B732@lerner.net> <3B91519A-4A63-423E-A963-C3BBC7A95A07@tch3.com> Message-ID: <4B9E4C17-BE80-4DF8-B8EE-BC9C523C24DA@lerner.net> Thanks for your replies people. I had a very good experience with OmniPlan yesterday, the first time I tried it. I was desperate to create a good timeline for a medium size project (lots of tasks, but few developers) and the customer was pressing for a coherent timeline. It was just impossible to do this manually - I needed a Gantt Chart. I tried various things - trying to do it in Excel (ugh), I tried iTaskX - and then I came across OmniPlan. I got a 24 hour trial license and tried it out. What made it work in OmniPlan was two things: 1. The resource leveler. iTaskX doesn't have that and it is absolutely vital to have a feature like that otherwise you end up scheduling mostly manually anyway. The leveler worked great and I got just what I needed. 2. The various exports, like vector PDF (which I gave to my customer) and the HTML full report are great. I can see myself using OmniPlan constantly from now on. And I purchased a license this morning. And now for my feature requests! (Surprisingly few!) 1. I would like to see more Gantt Chart customization options, such as: - Coloring the bars to match the colors of the task style. - Begin able to show the resource names by the bars in the Gantt chart without the "effort %". - Being able to apply styles to more column values, such as "priority". (Ex: all "priority 3" items get colored one way) - I mentioned this before, but I think there should be an option to reverse the meaning of the priority values so it corresponds with common English usage. That is "Priority 1" should be "top priority" rather than "bottom priority". It would make inputting the priority data less confusing, I think. - Maybe some more HTML report options enhancements - like being able to click on the tasks in the Gantt chart to show details. That would be cool. But I am basically very happy for now, and have been showing off the project to people at the company I work with. Thanks, doug On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Ken Case wrote: > On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: >> The only reason I was asking is because the version I downloaded >> from the site today was 1.0 and since it came out at the end of >> last year I thought it might be natural for the version to be like >> 1.01 or something like that since several months have passed since >> the original release. > > OmniPlan is under very active development: we've had six public > beta releases since we shipped 1.0 three months ago. For details > of what changed in each release, see the release notes at www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/releasenotes/>. > > While this mailing list has been pretty quiet so far, you'll find > that there is a very active community on the OmniPlan web forums at > . (There have > been over a thousand posts in 261 threads. Make that 262...) > > Our support ninjas do try to monitor both the mailing list and the > forums, but the fastest way to get a response from us is to send > email to them directly at omniplan@omnigroup.com or by selecting > "Send Feedback" from the Help menu. We try to respond to every > message within one business day, and often respond even more > quickly than that. > > Hope this helps! > > Ken > From kc at omnigroup.com Tue Mar 27 16:53:36 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Tue Mar 27 16:53:40 2007 Subject: OmniPlan 1.1 release candidate 3 is now available Message-ID: We have posted a release candidate for OmniPlan 1.1. This release adds French localization, addresses a crash on leveling in certain projects and adds a ?note? property to resources and tasks. We really appreciate your continued feedback, which is making it possible for us to inch toward the final OmniPlan 1.1 release. Please keep in mind that this release is still under development. Your feedback will help us improve the software, and we apologize if it crashes, corrupts your files, tracks dirts into the house, or otherwise misbehaves. A more stable release (version 1.0 GM) is also available. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can contact us directly via our support web page (at ) or by using the Send Feedback feature in your copy of OmniPlan. You can download the new release candidate now at . Enjoy! Ken From skwirl at omnigroup.com Tue Mar 27 17:08:08 2007 From: skwirl at omnigroup.com (Aaron Kwong) Date: Tue Mar 27 17:08:11 2007 Subject: OmniPlan-Users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: <20070324190007.A4CC514E7F0@dynamic-www.omnigroup.com> References: <20070324190007.A4CC514E7F0@dynamic-www.omnigroup.com> Message-ID: Hi Doug, Sounds like you're having fun with OmniPlan! ;-) > 1. I would like to see more Gantt Chart customization options, such > as: > > - Coloring the bars to match the colors of the task style. You can set this in the "Project : Styles" inspector. Simply click on the default "Task" style and change the color of the Task Bar Colors. > - Begin able to show the resource names by the bars in the Gantt > chart without the "effort %". > - Being able to apply styles to more column values, such as > "priority". (Ex: all "priority 3" items get colored one way) > - I mentioned this before, but I think there should be an option to > reverse the meaning of the priority values so it corresponds with > common English usage. That is "Priority 1" should be "top priority" > rather than "bottom priority". It would make inputting the priority > data less confusing, I think. > - Maybe some more HTML report options enhancements - like being able > to click on the tasks in the Gantt chart to show details. That would > be cool. We have feature requests for all four of these in our database, so I'll add a vote to each one and include your comments for our engineers to read. Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions or feedback. Thanks Doug! Sincerely, Aaron Kwong Support Ninja The Omni Group On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:00 PM, omniplan-users-request@omnigroup.com wrote: > Send OmniPlan-Users mailing list submissions to > omniplan-users@omnigroup.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > omniplan-users-request@omnigroup.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > omniplan-users-owner@omnigroup.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of OmniPlan-Users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: OmniPlan in active development? (Doug Lerner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:02:34 +0900 > From: Doug Lerner > Subject: Re: OmniPlan in active development? > To: Ken Case > Cc: OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > Message-ID: <4B9E4C17-BE80-4DF8-B8EE-BC9C523C24DA@lerner.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Thanks for your replies people. > > I had a very good experience with OmniPlan yesterday, the first time > I tried it. I was desperate to create a good timeline for a medium > size project (lots of tasks, but few developers) and the customer was > pressing for a coherent timeline. It was just impossible to do this > manually - I needed a Gantt Chart. > > I tried various things - trying to do it in Excel (ugh), I tried > iTaskX - and then I came across OmniPlan. I got a 24 hour trial > license and tried it out. > > What made it work in OmniPlan was two things: > > 1. The resource leveler. iTaskX doesn't have that and it is > absolutely vital to have a feature like that otherwise you end up > scheduling mostly manually anyway. The leveler worked great and I got > just what I needed. > > 2. The various exports, like vector PDF (which I gave to my customer) > and the HTML full report are great. > > I can see myself using OmniPlan constantly from now on. And I > purchased a license this morning. > > And now for my feature requests! (Surprisingly few!) > > 1. I would like to see more Gantt Chart customization options, such > as: > > - Coloring the bars to match the colors of the task style. > > - Begin able to show the resource names by the bars in the Gantt > chart without the "effort %". > > - Being able to apply styles to more column values, such as > "priority". (Ex: all "priority 3" items get colored one way) > > - I mentioned this before, but I think there should be an option to > reverse the meaning of the priority values so it corresponds with > common English usage. That is "Priority 1" should be "top priority" > rather than "bottom priority". It would make inputting the priority > data less confusing, I think. > > - Maybe some more HTML report options enhancements - like being able > to click on the tasks in the Gantt chart to show details. That would > be cool. > > But I am basically very happy for now, and have been showing off the > project to people at the company I work with. > > Thanks, > > doug > > On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Ken Case wrote: > >> On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: >>> The only reason I was asking is because the version I downloaded >>> from the site today was 1.0 and since it came out at the end of >>> last year I thought it might be natural for the version to be like >>> 1.01 or something like that since several months have passed since >>> the original release. >> >> OmniPlan is under very active development: we've had six public >> beta releases since we shipped 1.0 three months ago. For details >> of what changed in each release, see the release notes at > www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/releasenotes/>. >> >> While this mailing list has been pretty quiet so far, you'll find >> that there is a very active community on the OmniPlan web forums at >> . (There have >> been over a thousand posts in 261 threads. Make that 262...) >> >> Our support ninjas do try to monitor both the mailing list and the >> forums, but the fastest way to get a response from us is to send >> email to them directly at omniplan@omnigroup.com or by selecting >> "Send Feedback" from the Help menu. We try to respond to every >> message within one business day, and often respond even more >> quickly than that. >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> Ken >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OmniPlan-Users mailing list > OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users > > > End of OmniPlan-Users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5 > ******************************************** From doug at lerner.net Tue Mar 27 18:57:50 2007 From: doug at lerner.net (Doug Lerner) Date: Tue Mar 27 18:57:46 2007 Subject: OmniPlan-Users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: <20070324190007.A4CC514E7F0@dynamic-www.omnigroup.com> Message-ID: <74C20CFC-D135-445C-982F-ADBEE70FE2A6@lerner.net> Hi, Aaron, Thanks for your note. Yes, I am finding OmniPlan very useful. About the coloring of the bars, thanks for pointing that out. I didn't notice it. Is there a way of associating the color with some property so, for example, all the tasks by a certain resource are colored one way? Or all the tasks with a certain priority are colored some way? Thanks, doug On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Aaron Kwong wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Sounds like you're having fun with OmniPlan! ;-) > >> 1. I would like to see more Gantt Chart customization options, >> such as: >> >> - Coloring the bars to match the colors of the task style. > > You can set this in the "Project : Styles" inspector. Simply click > on the default "Task" style and change the color of the Task Bar > Colors. > >> - Begin able to show the resource names by the bars in the Gantt >> chart without the "effort %". > >> - Being able to apply styles to more column values, such as >> "priority". (Ex: all "priority 3" items get colored one way) > >> - I mentioned this before, but I think there should be an option to >> reverse the meaning of the priority values so it corresponds with >> common English usage. That is "Priority 1" should be "top priority" >> rather than "bottom priority". It would make inputting the priority >> data less confusing, I think. > >> - Maybe some more HTML report options enhancements - like being able >> to click on the tasks in the Gantt chart to show details. That would >> be cool. > > We have feature requests for all four of these in our database, so > I'll add a vote to each one and include your comments for our > engineers to read. > > Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions > or feedback. Thanks Doug! > > Sincerely, > > Aaron Kwong > Support Ninja > The Omni Group > > On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:00 PM, omniplan-users-request@omnigroup.com > wrote: > >> Send OmniPlan-Users mailing list submissions to >> omniplan-users@omnigroup.com >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> omniplan-users-request@omnigroup.com >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> omniplan-users-owner@omnigroup.com >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of OmniPlan-Users digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: OmniPlan in active development? (Doug Lerner) >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:02:34 +0900 >> From: Doug Lerner >> Subject: Re: OmniPlan in active development? >> To: Ken Case >> Cc: OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com >> Message-ID: <4B9E4C17-BE80-4DF8-B8EE-BC9C523C24DA@lerner.net> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed >> >> Thanks for your replies people. >> >> I had a very good experience with OmniPlan yesterday, the first time >> I tried it. I was desperate to create a good timeline for a medium >> size project (lots of tasks, but few developers) and the customer was >> pressing for a coherent timeline. It was just impossible to do this >> manually - I needed a Gantt Chart. >> >> I tried various things - trying to do it in Excel (ugh), I tried >> iTaskX - and then I came across OmniPlan. I got a 24 hour trial >> license and tried it out. >> >> What made it work in OmniPlan was two things: >> >> 1. The resource leveler. iTaskX doesn't have that and it is >> absolutely vital to have a feature like that otherwise you end up >> scheduling mostly manually anyway. The leveler worked great and I got >> just what I needed. >> >> 2. The various exports, like vector PDF (which I gave to my customer) >> and the HTML full report are great. >> >> I can see myself using OmniPlan constantly from now on. And I >> purchased a license this morning. >> >> And now for my feature requests! (Surprisingly few!) >> >> 1. I would like to see more Gantt Chart customization options, >> such as: >> >> - Coloring the bars to match the colors of the task style. >> >> - Begin able to show the resource names by the bars in the Gantt >> chart without the "effort %". >> >> - Being able to apply styles to more column values, such as >> "priority". (Ex: all "priority 3" items get colored one way) >> >> - I mentioned this before, but I think there should be an option to >> reverse the meaning of the priority values so it corresponds with >> common English usage. That is "Priority 1" should be "top priority" >> rather than "bottom priority". It would make inputting the priority >> data less confusing, I think. >> >> - Maybe some more HTML report options enhancements - like being able >> to click on the tasks in the Gantt chart to show details. That would >> be cool. >> >> But I am basically very happy for now, and have been showing off the >> project to people at the company I work with. >> >> Thanks, >> >> doug >> >> On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Ken Case wrote: >> >>> On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: >>>> The only reason I was asking is because the version I downloaded >>>> from the site today was 1.0 and since it came out at the end of >>>> last year I thought it might be natural for the version to be like >>>> 1.01 or something like that since several months have passed since >>>> the original release. >>> >>> OmniPlan is under very active development: we've had six public >>> beta releases since we shipped 1.0 three months ago. For details >>> of what changed in each release, see the release notes at >> www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/releasenotes/>. >>> >>> While this mailing list has been pretty quiet so far, you'll find >>> that there is a very active community on the OmniPlan web forums at >>> . (There have >>> been over a thousand posts in 261 threads. Make that 262...) >>> >>> Our support ninjas do try to monitor both the mailing list and the >>> forums, but the fastest way to get a response from us is to send >>> email to them directly at omniplan@omnigroup.com or by selecting >>> "Send Feedback" from the Help menu. We try to respond to every >>> message within one business day, and often respond even more >>> quickly than that. >>> >>> Hope this helps! >>> >>> Ken >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OmniPlan-Users mailing list >> OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users >> >> >> End of OmniPlan-Users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5 >> ******************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > OmniPlan-Users mailing list > OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users From pinkerton.doug at hardingacademymemphis.org Fri Mar 30 11:30:33 2007 From: pinkerton.doug at hardingacademymemphis.org (Doug Pinkerton) Date: Fri Mar 30 11:30:36 2007 Subject: Keeping static durations when assigning resources Message-ID: <20BF214C-8314-4842-A694-D9744B9B9BFA@hardingacademymemphis.org> While I understand the value of having OP calculate durations for me when building complex projects, for the current job I simply wish to assign resources and durations without them affecting one another. I know that Task A will take 2 days if 3 of my resources are assigned to it. I do not wish for that to be calculated for me. I do not wish to assign efficiency percentages to the resources. I do not wish for the addition of a resource to affect the duration of the task. But I DO wish for OP to manage the dependencies and to identify resource conflicts. Is there a way temporarily to disable the effort/duration recalculations? Bear with me if this is a stupid question. I'm new to the software. Thanks, dp From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Mar 30 14:05:40 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Mar 30 14:05:57 2007 Subject: Keeping static durations when assigning resources In-Reply-To: <20BF214C-8314-4842-A694-D9744B9B9BFA@hardingacademymemphis.org> References: <20BF214C-8314-4842-A694-D9744B9B9BFA@hardingacademymemphis.org> Message-ID: On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Doug Pinkerton wrote: > While I understand the value of having OP calculate durations for > me when building complex projects, for the current job I simply > wish to assign resources and durations without them affecting one > another. I know that Task A will take 2 days if 3 of my resources > are assigned to it. I do not wish for that to be calculated for me. You can tell OmniPlan whether assigning resources should preserve the duration or the effort by pulling up the Task:Information inspector and clicking on the appropriate icon to the right of the Effort or Duration field. Hope this helps! Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Wed Apr 18 15:02:52 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Wed Apr 18 15:02:54 2007 Subject: OmniPlan 1.1 is now available Message-ID: The final release of OmniPlan 1.1 is here! There are several enhancements in this release including improved import/export, leveling, printing and stability. We have also added some useful AppleScripts and improved some of the interface. Since we have made so many stability improvements, we do encourage all OmniPlan users to upgrade to the latest release version. You can view a complete list of changes in the OmniPlan 1.1 release notes at . This is a free upgrade for folks who already own an OmniPlan 1 license. If you don?t have a license yet, you can purchase one from our online store at . We are continuing to work on OmniPlan, so keep your comments and suggestions coming! You can contact us directly by way of our support page (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/support/) or by using the Send Feedback command in OmniPlan?s Help menu. Enjoy! Ken From geoffc at inspiredlogic.com Wed Jun 6 23:42:32 2007 From: geoffc at inspiredlogic.com (Geoff Canyon) Date: Wed Jun 6 23:42:54 2007 Subject: Better presentation on the web Message-ID: <2293822F-F0C9-4130-A365-F13B63206599@inspiredlogic.com> I use OmniPlan to organize many small projects, with just a few tasks for each project. The result is a project file with about 150 tasks. This doesn't present the Gantt chart and Resource Timeline too well in the standard web export. I've gotten around the issue that the images don't follow the scale I've set. I do that by exporting the images individually after the main export, and putting the resulting jpegs in place. The problem is that the images are large -- much larger than the display I'm using to show them to my PC-using brethren. When I scroll down, I lose the display of the dates. When I scroll to the right I lose the display of the task/resource. It's been about ten years since I did any significant HTML coding, but I took it up today, and here's the result. I put together a simple HTML document that shows the same image (the Gantt chart export) four times, using divs to achieve the desired effect. The upper left just shows the header for the tasks: task and duration in my case. The lower left shows just the task list itself. The upper right shows the header for the Gantt chart: the dates. The lower right is the Gantt chart itself. The chart is automatically fit into the window, with scrollbars if necessary. When the chart is scrolled to the right or left, the date header follows. When the chart is scrolled to up or down, the task list follows. The end result is something like an Excel spreadsheet with the left column and the top row locked. The HTML isn't pretty, the interface isn't perfect, and putting the thing together isn't as automatic as I would like, so if anyone can improve this I'm eager to see the result. To use this, create a file with the HTML below in it. Edit the HTML to use the file name for your project in place of "omni." Save the file as "tasks.html" in the include folder of your HTML template. Edit the index.html file to change the link that points to the tasks image file to point to your new file instead. Now export as usual, and enjoy! If you ever change the name of the project, you'll need to edit the HTML file to use the new name for the images. regards, Geoff ps -- watch out for line wrapping:

From geoffc at inspiredlogic.com Wed Jun 6 23:50:39 2007 From: geoffc at inspiredlogic.com (Geoff Canyon) Date: Wed Jun 6 23:50:54 2007 Subject: Better presentation on the web Message-ID: This is the HTML for the resources chart. Follow the same procedure I described in my previous email. regards, Geoff

From skwirl at omnigroup.com Fri Jun 8 16:42:50 2007 From: skwirl at omnigroup.com (Aaron Kwong) Date: Fri Jun 8 16:42:56 2007 Subject: Nice template! In-Reply-To: <20070607190007.8713D184022@forums.omnigroup.com> References: <20070607190007.8713D184022@forums.omnigroup.com> Message-ID: This is very handy Geoff! :-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there might be an issue with where the tag is pointing. Shouldn't it be instead, since the gantt chart jpeg file is created in that folder by default? Then again, you did mention that you were exporting a separate set of jpeg files from OmniPlan in the first place. Maybe you're saving them in the main folder instead of the "include" folder... My HTML skills are very weak, so I can't think of any way to improve on this. Maybe you should post this on the OmniPlan forum to see what the users there can suggest? Sincerely, Aaron Kwong Support Ninja The Omni Group On Jun 7, 2007, at 12:00 PM, omniplan-users-request@omnigroup.com wrote: > Send OmniPlan-Users mailing list submissions to > omniplan-users@omnigroup.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > omniplan-users-request@omnigroup.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > omniplan-users-owner@omnigroup.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of OmniPlan-Users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Better presentation on the web (Geoff Canyon) > 2. Better presentation on the web (Geoff Canyon) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:42:32 -0700 > From: Geoff Canyon > Subject: Better presentation on the web > To: omniplan-users@omnigroup.com > Message-ID: <2293822F-F0C9-4130-A365-F13B63206599@inspiredlogic.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > I use OmniPlan to organize many small projects, with just a few tasks > for each project. The result is a project file with about 150 tasks. > This doesn't present the Gantt chart and Resource Timeline too well > in the standard web export. > > I've gotten around the issue that the images don't follow the scale > I've set. I do that by exporting the images individually after the > main export, and putting the resulting jpegs in place. > > The problem is that the images are large -- much larger than the > display I'm using to show them to my PC-using brethren. When I scroll > down, I lose the display of the dates. When I scroll to the right I > lose the display of the task/resource. > > It's been about ten years since I did any significant HTML coding, > but I took it up today, and here's the result. > > I put together a simple HTML document that shows the same image (the > Gantt chart export) four times, using divs to achieve the desired > effect. The upper left just shows the header for the tasks: task and > duration in my case. The lower left shows just the task list itself. > The upper right shows the header for the Gantt chart: the dates. The > lower right is the Gantt chart itself. The chart is automatically fit > into the window, with scrollbars if necessary. When the chart is > scrolled to the right or left, the date header follows. When the > chart is scrolled to up or down, the task list follows. > > The end result is something like an Excel spreadsheet with the left > column and the top row locked. > > The HTML isn't pretty, the interface isn't perfect, and putting the > thing together isn't as automatic as I would like, so if anyone can > improve this I'm eager to see the result. > > To use this, create a file with the HTML below in it. Edit the HTML > to use the file name for your project in place of "omni." Save the > file as "tasks.html" in the include folder of your HTML template. > > Edit the index.html file to change the link that points to the tasks > image file to point to your new file instead. > > Now export as usual, and enjoy! > > If you ever change the name of the project, you'll need to edit the > HTML file to use the new name for the images. > > regards, > > Geoff > > ps -- watch out for line wrapping: > > > > > > > > > >
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> > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OmniPlan-Users mailing list > OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users > > > End of OmniPlan-Users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1 > ******************************************** From masque at pobox.com Tue Jun 19 15:47:36 2007 From: masque at pobox.com (Paul Blair) Date: Tue Jun 19 15:48:01 2007 Subject: Gantt-only printing: How does one actually use this? Message-ID: Printing Gantt-only seemed like a great idea until I saw the output: -------------- next part -------------- How on earth does one determine what is what? Am I missing the "Display task name next to Gantt items" setting somewhere? Thanks, Paul. From lizard at omnigroup.com Tue Jun 19 17:34:38 2007 From: lizard at omnigroup.com (Liz Marley) Date: Tue Jun 19 17:35:20 2007 Subject: Gantt-only printing: How does one actually use this? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <141C9A76-CB4D-4986-9AC5-BF7EB567500F@omnigroup.com> View menu > View Options... On the right side of the pane, under "Gantt Chart", check the box for "Title". The way you see it on the screen is (generally) the way it will print. On Jun 19, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > Printing Gantt-only seemed like a great idea until I saw the output: > > > How on earth does one determine what is what? Am I missing the > "Display task name next to Gantt items" setting somewhere? > > Thanks, > Paul._______________________________________________ > OmniPlan-Users mailing list > OmniPlan-Users@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniplan-users