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Project Planner 4.9 |
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Meeting
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Smart
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Project Planner
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Meeting
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Smart Tracker |
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How do you benefit from
Project Planner? |
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| New features in Project
Planner 4.9 |
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Brief
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Quarterly Resolution in Gantt
Chart/Plan Gantt View
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The 'Gantt Chart' of a
project can now be viewed in quarterly resolution also. This enhanced
view will specifically be helpful for projects which span for long
durations. The gantt chart can also be printed and exported as an
image(*.bmp or *.jpeg), in this resolution.
Also, the width of the 'Gantt Chart' can be customized for the
different resolutions, i.e. daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly
resolutions
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The projects created using
the Project Planner can be exported to MS Project Exchange
format(.mpx), which can be viewed using MS Project and Primavera
Project Planner.
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There are various status
present for a project, such as 'Canceled', 'Completed', 'Ongoing',
'Stalled' and 'Others', which the manager or an admin can set. There is
an option to enter remarks while changing the status of a project.
When the user chooses the status as 'Completed', while there are some
tasks which are not complete, then an option to complete the tasks will
be displayed. Hence, all incomplete tasks can be forcefully completed
in one shot.
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The Timescale Units in
Gantt Chart
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The project day number that
can be displayed in the X-axis of a Gantt Chart has the option to be
displayed with or without its respective time scale. This option is
present in the ‘User Preferences’ of the Plan View and Plan Gantt View.
For example: The daily resolution of the
Gantt Chart can be displayed, with its X-axis as D1, D2, D3……
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| Bugs fixed in Project Planner: |
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The saving process has
been enhanced to improve the performance, making it more robust and
reliable |
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The
validations performed while importing the projects from MPP, PPR, XML
files have been improved. |
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The check
boxes in the 'Classic Skin' of Project Planner looked like 'cross
marks'. Some of the users complained it was misleading. This has been
replaced with a 'tick mark' image. |
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The error
while importing the MPP file, where some of the resources were not
imported, is fixed. |
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The status
of the summary task was calculated as 'New Task' when all its sub-tasks
had its duration as zero days or zero hours. This used to happen only
when the option 'based on the duration and completion of the sub tasks'
is set in 'Project Privileges'.This is fixed. |
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The start
and end dates entered in the 'Page Setup' dialog of the 'Gantt Chart'
view was not taken into consideration while printing it out. The tasks
between the start date and end date as entered in the 'Page Setup'
dialog will only be printed out now. |
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There
exists an option 'Set Templates' for the 'admin' to add, edit and
delete document templates of a project. The delete template option was
not working as desired. This is now fixed. |
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| New features in Meeting
Manager 4.9 |
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Export Meetings to MS Excel:
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The meetings can now be exported to an excel
sheet. Various options have been provided while exporting the meetings
to excel, such as
1)A range of dates can be entered, between
which the meetings have to be exported.
2)The user can specify the fields which
needs to be exported. The user has the option to select/unselect the
following fields while exporting:
- Meeting ID
- Meeting subject
- Meeting agenda
- Meeting status
- Meeting time and duration
- Organizer, attendees and non attendees details
- Meeting room and resources
- Action points for attendees
3)The user can also
sort the meetings(both ascending and descending) by ID, date of the
meeting and the subject of the meeting, while exporting to excel.
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| Bugs fixed in Meeting Manager: |
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Reminders were set for the
'admin', whenever the meeting was organized by the 'admin'. The 'admin'
cannot be an attendee for a meeting and hence the reminders are not
applicable to the 'admin'. This is now corrected. |
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The error
message "The calendar can not be modified. Please check if you have the
necessary permissions to modify the calendar" which was displayed while
modifying the calendar of a particular user, is corrected. |
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Sorting the users, whilst
organizing a meeting caused the last user in the list to be selected.
This is corrected. |
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The 'Associated SmartWorks
Project' that was set while organizing a meeting, was not displayed
while modifying that meeting. This is corrected now. |
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| New features in Smart
Tracker 4.9 |
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The users can copy a report
and its response, of a particular project in the SmartTracker to
another project in the SmartTracker.
This option is provided for all users, irrespective of their status.
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| Bugs fixed in Smart Tracker : |
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The Root
Cause Analysis(RCA) of a report/defect which can be entered while
modifying the status of a report was not assigned correctly, when there
were more than 10 RCA values. This is corrected now. |
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| Features |
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Create
projects quickly and easily using Project creation Wizard |
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Plan a project by
splitting a project into well defined tasks |
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Printable
spreadsheet like interface to edit the project plan |
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Summary view to show
the project health based on number of tasks and project duration |
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Project completion
status based on duration and tasks |
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Changing status of
multiple tasks and downloading multiple attachments |
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Improvements in
document type task |
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Improvements in
export to XLS™ feature |
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Option to enter
actual duration of a task |
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Ability to add
multiple resources and assign a task owner to a task |
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Mark the task
progress by changing the task status in terms of percentage completion |
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Printable
Gantt chart to analyze the progress with respect to time, resources or
status |
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Save Gantt as Image |
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Critical path in
Gantt Chart for in-depth project analysis and dynamic calculation of
critical path and task slack |
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Calendar to set the
working days in project, also ability to set number of working hours in
a day |
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Task notes |
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Tasks filters for
easy viewing of tasks |
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Support for Hyper
links |
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Improved MPP reader |
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Network Diagram to
see the project flow |
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Automatically
generated reminder for lagging tasks |
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More interaction
between SmartWorks software |
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Easy Editing Features |
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Estimation view to
project completion based on the current status |
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Customizable warning
mail configuration, for lagged tasks and tasks which are about to slip
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Inbuilt risk
management with mitigation and contingency plans and risk related graphs
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Save, Update,
Baseline and retrieve a Project Plan easily
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Sharing projects by
saving the plan in MS Excel, XML, HTML and Project Planner Reader
formats
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Capability to read
MS-Project MPP file format |
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Cost graph and
resource usage graphs which are plotted dynamically |
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PERT
view to analyze project completions based on optimistic, pessimistic
and realistic dates |
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Percentage
allocation of resources for better resource allocation |
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Collect
statistics of a project using Project Graphs |
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Hierarchy of Project
users namely Managers, Leaders and Team members and login facility for
data security |
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Ability to define
the privileges of the users, for example block team members from
viewing the cost graph |
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Network Support
provides the ability to log on to a project from any machine in a
networked environment |
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Resource Dependent
Calendar: Each resource can have his/her own calendar. The calendar can
be a Global calendar or the Project specific calendar. |
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Earned Value
Management(EVM) reports and EVM graphs. |
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Facility for the
admin to hide/unhide the projects |
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Along with the
existing default skin, 2 skins 'Outlook' and 'Classic' are present. |
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| How do you benefit? |
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SmartWorks Project Planner is an
enterprise project management solution, which helps to plan, manage and
track a project. It provides the flexibility to split a project into
well-defined tasks in a spreadsheet like interface. This software
allows a project manager to define calendar, create dependencies
between tasks, mark milestones, assign resources, set priorities,
maintain risk database, manage cost, view Gantt charts, resource
distribution across projects and resource usage graphs, project graphs
and more. 
