<p>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</p><p>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</p><p> QUICK REPORTS</p><p>REPORTS | REPORTS | QUICK REPORTS</p><p>The most popular used reports for Costs and Resources are included here</p><p>For Cost reports must include Week and Months headings in the timescale at the top of the barchart for the Quick Reports to work.</p><p>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.</p><p> SET TIMESCALE FOR BARCHART TO 4/4/5</p><p>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)</p><p>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 >>> </p><p>The result is April becomes Q2 ..</p><p> SET TIMESCALE FOR BARCHART TO 4 WEEK PERIODS</p><p>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)</p><p>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 …</p><p>BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE and click on the RESET 4/4/5 START button bottom right ….  4/4/5 WEEK COST REPORTS</p><p>To change a normal weekly plan into a 4/4/5 week plan as a cost report</p><p>REPORTS | REPORTS | COST | COST CHART & PERIODIC COSTS</p><p>Click on 4/4/5 WEEKS below…</p><p>The result is this ..</p><p>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 …</p><p>BARCHART | VIEW | FORMAT TIMESCALE and click on the RESET 4/4/5 START button bottom right ….</p><p>If the Start point was changed to January 12th – the chart would look like this …  4 WEEK COST REPORTS</p><p>To change a normal weekly plan into a 4 week plan as a cost report</p><p>REPORTS | REPORTS | COST | COST CHART & PERIODIC COSTS</p><p>Click on 4 WEEKS below…</p><p>The result is this (if the barchart headings have not been set as PRESET 30 or 31 previously ..</p><p>The Starting Date can be changed for the first quarter by …</p><p>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 …</p><p> 4 WEEK & 4/4/5 WEEK OPTIONS ADDED TO RESOURCE REPORTS</p><p>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</p><p>This allows you to link one task in one file to another task in another file. </p><p>Open the file that it is linking into. </p><p>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 ..</p><p>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….</p><p>This will establish a Finish to Start link with the previous file.</p><p>Then click on the LINK button at the bottom.</p><p>Note. A positive or negative Lag can be added to the Finish to Start link.</p><p>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.</p><p>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</p><p>This allows you to move a task to another row.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>You can move a block of bars by highlighting more than one on the ID numbers.</p><p>Important ….</p><p>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</p><p> Files saved with Task List.</p><p>View menu, Task List - Files will open with Task List if it was last saved with it open.</p><p> Week commencing Sunday</p><p>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…….</p><p>The default is based on Monday as the week commencing date. </p><p> Resource Assignment default changed to FIXED from RESOURCE DRIVEN.</p>