OmniPlan-Users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5

Tue Mar 27 17:08:08 PDT 2007

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 at omnigroup.com  
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>    1. Re: OmniPlan in active development? (Doug Lerner)
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> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:02:34 +0900
> From: Doug Lerner <doug at lerner.net>
> Subject: Re: OmniPlan in active development?
> To: Ken Case <kc at omnigroup.com>
> Cc: OmniPlan-Users at omnigroup.com
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> 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 <http://
>> 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
>> <http://forums.omnigroup.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37>.  (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 at 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
>>
>
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