OmniPlan-Users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5

Tue Mar 27 18:57:50 PDT 2007

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 at omnigroup.com  
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>>    1. Re: OmniPlan in active development? (Doug Lerner)
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>> Message: 1
>> 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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