Recent Changes

OmniPlan 4.8 for iPad and iPhone introduces a new app icon and support for Omni Automation “Install Links.” This release requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or later.

OmniPlan 4.8 for iPad and iPhone

• App Icon — New app icon.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — Omni Automation now supports “Install Links” for simplified Omni Automation plug-in installation.
• App Lock — Updated App Lock appearance.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — Omni Automation plug-ins can now be configured in App settings.
• Outline — Custom Data outline columns are now supported.
• Outline — Tapping on an empty outline cell now initiates editing.
• Outline — Fixed a bug that could block editing rows near end of project outline.
• Outline — “Copy” contextual menu item now functions correctly.
• Stability — Updated Omni Automation logic to avoid a JavaScriptCore crash on iOS and iPadOS 17.
• Licensing — Fixed an issue with subscriptions sometimes triggering a “Re-authenticate with (null)” prompt around renewal time.

Recent Changes

OmniPlan 4.5.5 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

OmniPlan 4.5.5 for iPad and iPhone

• Toolbar — Restored “Set Task Default” option in toolbar Add menu.
• Omni Automation — Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause iCloud plug-ins to fail to display on newer iOS/iPadOS versions.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when calculating resource cost.
• Stability — Addressed a bug that could trigger a crash when autofilling Omni Account credentials via a password manager.

OmniPlan 4.5.4 for iPad and iPhone

• Calendars — Fixed an error opening projects that include unexpected repeating off-hours.
• Change Tracking — Fixed bugs related to syncing “Adjust assigned amounts” tasks with multiple assigned resources (note, affected tasks will need to be edited before syncing properly).
• Collaboration — Fixed a bug that could cause shared resource loads to fail to immediately publish to other projects.
• Collaboration — Prompt to trust self-signed certificates when configuring a custom WebDAV server has been restored.
• Leveling — Addressed hangs that could occur when leveling some project schedules.
• Split Tasks — Fixed a bug that could cause some split tasks to behave unexpectedly when auto-leveling, resulting in slight schedule shifts and repeated changelog notifications.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when publishing projects with shared resource loads.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur calculating a start date range.

OmniPlan 4.5 adds new toolbar functionality on iPads running iPadOS 16.

OmniPlan 4.5 for iPad and iPhone

• Toolbar — New document toolbar functionality has been introduced on iPads running iPadOS 16 (this functionality is not available on iPhones). Changes include:
  • Customizable toolbar support.
  • New optional toolbar buttons for Reschedule, Catch Up, Split Task, Level Resources, Publish/Refresh, and task selection.
  • Support for new iPadOS 16 document title menu.
  • Access to options previously only accessible via the document browser toolbar, like the Reference Manual and Settings, via the document toolbar’s overflow menu.
• Timeline Scale — Fixed a bug that could cause Gantt timeline scale options to present in incorrect language.
• Stability — Using addAssignment on a task assignment via Omni Automation no longer triggers a crash.

OmniPlan 4.4

OmniPlan 4.4 improves OmniPlan’s leveling and scheduling logic on all platforms, and introduces localizations on iPad and iPhone. OmniPlan 4 is now localized in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish on all platforms.

• Localizations — OmniPlan is now localized in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.
• Leveling — Leveling now supports assigning a resource group that contains only equipment resources with 0% efficiency (previously this would trigger a “no dependency chain available” violation). This is useful for automatically assigning an available conference room from a resource group of conference rooms, for example.
• Omni Automation — Omni Automation improvements. For more detail, see the Omni Automation Release Notes (available in the Automation API Reference via the Automation menu in the toolbar).
• Leveling — Improved leveling logic related to resource availability.
• Leveling — A warning is now presented when leveling could cause a hammock task to stretch endlessly due to an assigned resource that is also in the dependency chain for the hammock’s end date.
• Omni Account — Closing an Omni Account can now be initiated via the Omni Account settings.
• Leveling — Leveling no longer unassigns resources assigned to manually scheduled tasks.
• Leveling — Fixed a bug that could cause resource start dates to interfere with accurately scheduling tasks set to “Task progress requires: Any of the assigned resources.”
• Leveling — Leveling a “Adjust Assigned Amounts” task that is assigned to multiple resources no longer over assigns units to resources with less than 100% unit availability (previously, OmniPlan split the assigned amount evenly across all assigned resources, regardless of individual resource availability).
• Leveling — Resource leveling no longer gives up on scheduling long sequences of as-late-as-possible tasks that end up determining the project end date in projects scheduled from a fixed start.
• Leveling — Fixed a bug that could cause leveling to repeatedly split and merge partially completed tasks.
• Leveling — ALAP milestones in a forward project now level correctly.
• Multitasking — Changes to sidebar visibility no longer affect all open documents.
• Outline View — Task group expansion state is now restored in Outline View.
• Scheduling — One hour tasks are now scheduled as expected over standard to daylight savings time changeover.
• Scheduling — Hammock task now round to whole days as expected in projects set to daily scheduling granularity.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when creating a hammock task between ASAP & ALAP tasks in some project schedules.
• Violations — A violation is now presented when a resource is over-allocated due to simultaneous manually scheduled tasks.