What S New Version 7.3

WHAT’S NEW VERSION 7.3 Quick Reports 4 week and 4/4/5 week barchart headings 4 week and 4/4/5 week cost reports Linking tasks between files Drag and drop tasks

Improvements include…. XML files imported from PowerProject Costs on milestones included in reports Week commencing Sunday in timescale Resource default option changed to Fixed Duration Files saved with Task List – now opens at same point saved Correction to Plant per week costs RAG status column taken out of Percent Complete view New Features

 QUICK REPORTS

REPORTS | REPORTS | QUICK REPORTS

The most popular used reports for Costs and Resources are included here

For Cost reports must include Week and Months headings in the timescale at the top of the barchart for the Quick Reports to work.

Note: These reports can be found in the Reports menu & then under Costs and Resources – where the user can choose more options to define reports.

 SET TIMESCALE FOR BARCHART TO 4/4/5

BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE and change the FORMAT to either PRESET28 OR PRESET29 (this on includes the year as an extra row at the top)

When you click on OK - it asks to confirm the start date to start counting from (ie Q1/1). It assumes it is the Monday of the current week – you can change it. change to >>>

The result is April becomes Q2 ..

 SET TIMESCALE FOR BARCHART TO 4 WEEK PERIODS

BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE and change the FORMAT to either PRESET30 OR PRESET31 (this on includes the year as an extra row at the top)

When you click on OK - it assumes you are starting to count from the first Monday of the current year– you can change the The Starting Date for the first quarter by …

BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE and click on the RESET 4/4/5 START button bottom right ….  4/4/5 WEEK COST REPORTS

To change a normal weekly plan into a 4/4/5 week plan as a cost report

REPORTS | REPORTS | COST | COST CHART & PERIODIC COSTS

Click on 4/4/5 WEEKS below…

The result is this ..

Note: The naming of the Quarters and Periods of 4/4/5 is counted assuming that the Start date of the Timescale is Q1/1 …. Quarter 1 Period 1 (4 weeks) and then Q1/3 becomes Quarter Period 3 (5 weeks) and then is repeated .. The Starting Date can be changed for the first quarter by …

BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE and click on the RESET 4/4/5 START button bottom right ….

If the Start point was changed to January 12th – the chart would look like this …  4 WEEK COST REPORTS

To change a normal weekly plan into a 4 week plan as a cost report

REPORTS | REPORTS | COST | COST CHART & PERIODIC COSTS

Click on 4 WEEKS below…

The result is this (if the barchart headings have not been set as PRESET 30 or 31 previously ..

The Starting Date can be changed for the first quarter by …

BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE and click on the RESET 4/4/5 START button bottom right …. If the Start point was changed to April 6th – the chart would look like this …

 4 WEEK & 4/4/5 WEEK OPTIONS ADDED TO RESOURCE REPORTS

When specifying a Resource Report, the options on a report on the ADVANCED button – now include these options for Headings for Resource data section (eg Usage or Histogram).  LINKING ACROSS FILES

This allows you to link one task in one file to another task in another file.

Open the file that it is linking into.

Highlight one ID number for an individual task (this task will be the TO bar in the link … ie the bar receiving the link . Then right mouse click to display window below ..

Then click on BROWSE and choose the File from where the link is to be sourced from (ie. the Predecessor). Then highlight only one of the tasks….

This will establish a Finish to Start link with the previous file.

Then click on the LINK button at the bottom.

Note. A positive or negative Lag can be added to the Finish to Start link.

The cross file link is shown as a black bar and if you double click on the Name cell – it will show the Properties of the link and where the link came from (ie the Prede- cessor). If you open the Predecessor file it will show the Successor link going out into the other file.

If the first file has been changed – then when you open the second file – the system will indicate there will be a need to update the schedule in the second file.  DRAG AND DROP TASKS

This allows you to move a task to another row.

Hover over the ID number and the cursor will change to a Right Arrow. Then click on the ID number and the Arrow changes to an UP& DOWN Arrow.

Then hold left hand mouse button down and move the cursor to the row. The task will be copied into the row below the highlighted one.

You can move a block of bars by highlighting more than one on the ID numbers.

Important ….

The operation acts similar to a cut and paste. Any links on the bar/s moved are deleted and also if you drop the task into a summary structure – the task/s might be put into the wrong levels. Improvements

 Files saved with Task List.

View menu, Task List - Files will open with Task List if it was last saved with it open.

 Week commencing Sunday

The Sunday option is changed by using the CUSTOM tab on the Timescale (BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE) and changing the LABEL drop down on the WEEKS heading as below…….

The default is based on Monday as the week commencing date.

 Resource Assignment default changed to FIXED from RESOURCE DRIVEN.