OmniPlan for iOS 3.0

February 3, 2016

Requires iOS 9

This is the initial release of OmniPlan for iOS 3.0.

  • Network View — An elegant and easy way to rapidly prototype and visualize your project’s flow as a network diagram of nodes connected by dependencies.
  • Meeting Task Type — A new resource allocation option that allows you to specify if multiple resources need to work on a task independently or simultaneously.
  • Catch-Up — If everything is going as planned, bring the completion percentage of every task (or just the selected tasks) in your project up to today’s date.
  • Reschedule — If you have tasks which were planned to be complete by now, but aren’t, reschedule them.
  • Leveling Priority — Define leveling priority for tasks in your project.
  • Display Off-Hours — Display all off-hours, holidays, and weekends.
  • Unlinked Duration and Effort — Set different values for a task’s effort and duration, then let OmniPlan crunch the numbers for your resource assignment percentage.
  • Microsoft Project 2016 Support (PRO) — Import support for Microsoft Project 2016 files.
  • Monte Carlo Simulation (PRO) — Run multiple simulations in seconds to forecast milestone completion dates with varying levels of confidence.
  • Auto-Effort Estimation (PRO) — Think some tasks might take longer or finish earlier than expected? Let OmniPlan assign your best and worst case estimates to account for every scenario.

OmniPlan for iOS 2.5

February 1, 2016

Requires iOS 9

OmniPlan for iOS v2.5 adds support for in-app announcements.

  • Announcements — In-app announcement feature to display notifications from The Omni Group. This feature will only be used to inform users of important information: when a new major version has been released, for example, or if action is required to prevent data loss.

OmniPlan for Mac 3.2.1

December 14, 2015

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniPlan 3.2.1 is a minor update addressing issues related to date parsing, task scheduling, project scaling, and stability issues when opening a project in full-screen mode or refreshing the multi-project Dashboard

  • Date Parsing — Entering duration or effort as “1 S” in French now results in 1 week instead of 1 second.
  • Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a project in full-screen mode.
  • Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when reloading the Dashboard.
  • Zoom — Addressed buggy zoom behavior when using “Scale to Fit Selection.”
  • Scheduling — Addressed an issue calculating task completion when reloading a project.
  • Scheduling — Addressed an issue calculating total cost for individual resources within an assigned resource group after leveling.
  • Scheduling — When a task is set to “Adjust Effort” and effort is manually changed, duration is now updated properly.

OmniPlan for Mac 2.4.3

November 30, 2015

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniPlan 2.4.3 contains a bug fix that addresses a regression involving durations.

  • Duration Calculation — Fixed a duration calculation issue that could occur while loading a file when a resource is assigned at less than 100% on a fixed duration task.

OmniPlan for Mac 3.2

November 19, 2015

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniPlan 3.2 adds Dashboard printing, zoom shortcuts, and OmniPresence documentation (as well as fixes for some performance and stability issues).

  • Dashboard Printing (Pro) — Multi-project dashboards can now be printed, both to physical printers and to PDF files.
  • Zoom Shortcuts — Added keyboard shortcuts for the existing Scale to Fit Project and Scale to Fit Selection menu items. Also added new Zoom In and Zoom Out menu items with their own keyboard shortcuts. (It’s also still possible to drag the dividers between time periods in the Gantt’s header to change the scale.)
  • OmniPresence Documentation — Added documentation explaining how to use OmniPresence to sync documents between Mac and iOS devices.
  • Project Overview — Fixed an issue where the overview bar would not update if you navigated around the project by clicking a task chevron.
  • Dashboards — Fixed a bug where Dashboards always opened in Gantt comparison view, even if the bar chart view was last selected.
  • Inspectors — Fixed a bug where scrollbars would overlap the inspector on launch.
  • Inspectors — Fixed an issue where a soft return could cause an inspector’s text field to be cut off.
  • Inspectors — Inspector field should now populate with details for the selected item when showing the Inspector sidebar.
  • Inspectors — Fixed a bug where the start date of a task couldn’t be locked via the inspector.
  • Contextual Menu — Fixed a bug where the “Add Group” item in the contextual menu would add a milestone instead of a group.
  • Task Assignments — Fixed an issue where tasks set to “Adjust Task Effort” would display incorrect effort when opening a project with resource assignments other than 100%.
  • Performance — Improved the performance of changes to some project schedules.
  • Localizations — Fixed a bug where “Zoom In” and “Zoom Out” were not localized in the view menu.
  • Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when reverting to saved while closing a window when “Ask to keep changes when closing documents” was enabled in System Preferences.
  • Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when OmniPlan tries to layout the timeline multiple times after adding a new task.
  • Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur while trying to use the “Contact Omni” menu item when a Dashboard was the most forefront window.
  • Stability — Fixed a hang that could occur while editing a resource’s Cost per Hour value when that resource had a 0% assignment to a task.
  • Stability — Fixed a hang that could occur when rescheduling tasks.
  • Stability — Fixed a hang when using the Scale to Fit Project feature in the Gantt Chart.
  • Stray Log Message — Fixed a stray console log message about not finding an image named OAInfoTemplate.