ProjectPartner Release Notes
Which Version Do I Have?
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(Refresh is usually the F5 key on your keyboard, or a ‘Refresh’ or ‘Reload’ menu option or toolbar button in your browser.)
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Please contact ProjectPartner.com’s support staff if you require any assistance.
Version and release date:
Release notes:
- NEW! Primary data grouping options in Dashboards now include Client, Portfolio and more
- NEW! Dashboards drilldown now includes options to show component items, e.g. Tasks within Projects
- NEW! “Go to Project [definition]” right-click option when a Project is selected in Dashboards
- NEW! Budget for parent item can be automatically created from child items’ Budgets
- NEW! Child items’ timelines optionally automatically modified when parent item moved in Gantt chart, e.g. Task start/end dates moved when Project start/end modified
- NEW! Contract Variances automatically created as part of approved claim import
- NEW! Contracts and Contract Items available as Dashboard charting options
- PDF and Excel export options in tabular view of Dashboards, similar to existing export options in Reports
- Usability improvements to Project Tree refresh behavior, viewmodes and concertina sections (Favorites, Recent, etc.) in Timesheet and Project Management modules
- Invoice layout improvements
- NEW! Create Contract Schedule from an imported Microsoft Excel (.xls or .xlsx) file
- NEW! Contract claims validation now supports capital works claims, in addition to maintenance works claims
- NEW! Internal cost recovery: Transactions (time, expenses, disbursements and sales) can be flagged as “recoverable”; reporting is generated to show which items are recoverable from other cost centers within the organization or from intangible external parties
- NEW! Baseline Budgets: Any version of a Budget can be flagged as the baseline measure, and available as the comparison basis in many dashboards and reports within Analytics
- Approval Comment now visible to Timesheet users
- Contract claims validation populates Approval Comment for any item manually approved as an override of automatic validation rejection
- Sort order now available as part of Advanced Search
- Contract Schedule items can now be grouped across multiple Contracts
- Improved user-specific and enterprise-wide Options grouping
- Significant (>80%) speed improvement in refreshing Navigation Tree for organizations with very large numbers of Projects/Tasks
- Sundry usability improvements throughout
- NEW! Assets and Asset Types – A new view mode for the Project Tree introduces Assets. Assets can now be defined, and Projects associated with one or more of them.
- NEW! Claims validation – An extension of the Supplier/Contract management introduced in v6.1.8, contractors’ invoices for completing Contract work can be automatically validated against a Contract’s Schedule and Variances, with Expenses/Disbursements automatically created for approved costs.
- NEW! Portfolios can now be arranged in a nested hierachy under an Entity, similar to Task Groups within Projects.
- NEW! “Health” status calculation now possible for high-level items which do not have Budgets themselves. For example, a Client’s Health can be calculated as an aggregate of child Projects’ tracking to their individual Budgets.
- Projects can now be defined as templates, for easy Project creation based on common parameters. Templates cannot have activity (Time) or Expenses/Disbursements/Sales recorded against them.
- In Project Definition, items can be dragged-and-dropped within the Project Tree to change their associations to Clients, Portfolios, Assets, Contracts, Projects, etc. More complex associations can still be easily managed through the relevant tab with the item selected.
- New Task start/end dates are automatically set to those of their parent Project, while still permitting other dates to be specified.
- Workgroup supervisors can instantly return to their own Timesheet after managing another user’s.
- Incremental enhancements to Dashboards and Reports to reflect new reporting dimensions available through new features.
- v6.1.8: April 8, 2010
- v6.1.7: December 21, 2009
- v6.1.6: November 5, 2009
- v6.1.5: September 28, 2009
- v6.1.4: August 28, 2009
- v6.1.3: August 6, 2009
- v6.1.2: July 3, 2009
- v6.1.1: June 18, 2009
- v6.1.0: May 29, 2009
- v6.0.9: May 1, 2009
- v6.0.8: April 9, 2009
- v6.0.7: March 20, 2009
- v6.0.6: February 27, 2009
- v6.0.5: February 4, 2009
- v6.0.4: January 23, 2009
- v6.0.3: January 9, 2009
- v6.0.1: December 8, 2008
- v6.0.0: December 1, 2008