OmniPlan 2.0.3 is a free update to licensed OmniPlan 2.0 users. This release includes a critical fix to project syncing with an OmniPlan server repository.

General Usability & Bug Fixes

• In prior releases of OmniPlan 2.0, a failed attempt to delete a project from the “Manage Server Repository” window could leave the window in a state where it could subsequently delete other files under the account's server path. If you sync projects with the Omni Sync Server, MobileMe, or any WebDAV server, please install this update.
• Fixed an error calculating resource cost of tasks with locked dates.
• Worked around possible eTag handling errors with non-conforming WebDAV servers.

OmniPlan 2.0.2 is a free update to licensed OmniPlan 2.0 users. This release is focused on addressing bugs and usability issues found in 2.0.

General Usability & Bug Fixes

• The number of units specified when assigning material resources to a task via AppleScript is now correctly honored.
• Editing a formatted value such as a date or duration directly on the Timeline View no longer provokes a crash.
• We've rewritten the dragging code in the Timeline, Gantt, and Outline Views to eliminate incompatibility with Spotify and other applications.
• Deleting the value in the “Key” column of the Custom Data inspectors no longer crashes.
• Split tasks with a non-zero static cost no longer cause cost accounting errors. Adjusting the effort of a split task segment proportionally reallocates the cost of the split task between all segments.

OmniPlan 2.0.1 is a free update to licensed OmniPlan 2.0 users. This release is focused on addressing bugs and usability issues found in 2.0.

General Usability & Bug Fixes

• Reduced the default font sizes and the space between rows.
• On Lion, OmniPlan now uses the built-in facility for restoring open windows when the app is launched.
• When launched or when the app icon is clicked, OmniPlan will now always present a document window, creating a new one if necessary.
• Revised on-line help.
• The preferences to “Open projects which were open last time you quit” and “Create a new document if nothing else is open” have been removed. Both behaviors are now standard to Mac OS X and are always on.
• The table view of columns in View Options no longer allows row selection with the accompanying weird rendering.
• Resources with custom styles load properly and their assigned tasks can be copy/pasted without error.
• Fixed a math error in the “Extra & Off Hours” calendar that sometimes resulted in mouse clicks selecting the wrong week if your week does not start on Sunday.
• Values from date columns are now copied to the pasteboard.
• Inspectors — Tabbing between inspector fields works once again.
• AppleScript — “set title” of the project entity now works.
• The controls on the “Customize Toolbar” sheet for setting the toolbar display mode and size now work.

Import & Export

• Exporting images with the “Include notes: expanded” option caused groups that didn't actually have any note to clip the following row. This has been fixed.
• Schedule exceptions now inherit from parent resource schedules. This has always been the intent and reflected in the UI, but assigned task scheduling did not handle the case properly.
• Imported OmniPlan 1.x files now enable task numbering by default.
• Improved date handling during import of all supported Microsoft Project files. Warnings that “The end date must come after the start date” are now likely legitimate problems.
• When enumerating assignments, HTML reports will report the amount of effort the resource will put into the assignment, rather than the total task effort. If the resource is not 100% efficient this will not equal the amount of effort they will contribute to task completion.

Printing & Imaging

• The resource allocation graph, if enabled, now draws correctly on printouts and image exports.
• Baseline Gantt bars now render behind Actual bars on printouts and images, where they are not rendered transparently.

Improved stability

• Spelling autocorrection is severely unstable in OmniPlan and has been temporarily disabled.

Publish & Subscribe

• HTTP redirects are now correctly handled, addressing issues for some users of Omni Sync Server and other WebDAV servers.
• Syncing tasks to/from iCal events with a resource filter now syncs the expected tasks and handles them being deleted in iCal by restoring them.
• Saved filters now interact correctly with publish actions.
• The PM is now empowered to check a task “complete” on the Calendar Server account configured for a “Sync tasks with Calendar Server to-do” action, even if that account doesn't correspond to a resource assigned to the task.
• Recurring events in subscribed calendars are now supported.
• Milestone completeness is now changetracked and published.

Filtering

• Filtering for “Assigned is not Resource 1” used to mean “any task with an assignment to any resource besides Resource 1”. Now it means &lduo;any task not assigned to Resource 1”.
• The “Focus” feature now works when the outline view is in “Flat Numbering” mode. WBS filters now filter on heirarchical number regardless of displayed numbering node.
• Fixed an error loading files with assigned resource filters.

Performance

• QuickLook previews are no longer written for autosaves, improving performance and preventing improperly timestamped changelog entries.
• Loading performance for projects with baselines has been improved.

What’s new in OmniPlan 2: No Pain, All Gain

OmniPlan 2 is the same painless project management you've come to expect with loads of new features—including over-the-air collaboration.

Collaboration: Sync, Publish, Edit, and Track Changes

Use a WebDAV server to sync your projects between resources. Then, publish your tasks automatically upon saving. Grab new changes via Bonjour or at a specified interval. (You can also publish and update manually, of course.) Publish tasks and pull in updates from a server-based calendar. Export your plan automatically in any supported format. Execute custom AppleScripts from within the app.

Use Apple's Calendar Server to pull in free times and busy times for your resources. Import vacation and holiday schedules from a web-hosted calendar. Configure to check for updates periodically or via Bonjour.

Keep track of the changes to the project with visual change tracking. See your own edits on a personal project or see the synced changes on a team project. Accept and reject changes on a task-by-task basis or all at once.

Scheduling

Fiscal years are now supported in addition to calendar years so you can choose whether your tasks are due in Q2 or Spring. Schedule projects backwards from a fixed end date. Create, save, and compare your projects against multiple baselines. Highlight the critical path to individual milestones in the new Project: Milestones inspector. Resource schedules now have a start and/or end date.

Tasks and Resources

Split your tasks to schedule around interruptions. Create hammock tasks that have start and end dates based on prerequisites that you define. Effort and Duration can now be unlinked. Default task and resource attributes can be configured per project or in a template for faster task creation. Color-code tasks based on their resource. Choose independent display formats for duration and effort values.

Filtering

Save multiple, commonly-used filters for quick re-use later. Configure publishing actions to use filters.

Printing Options

Headers and footers are now more flexible. Expand or collapse all notes and task and resource groups. Page margins support mirroring on facing pages. Customize the margin above and below the header and footer.