TPAssist 1.5 Known Issue - Help Content - "TPAssist Console"

This notice applies to TPAssist 2007 release 1.5 (build 1.5.9).

The help pages have a corruption in the TPAssist Console section. This has been corrected in the latest maintenance update (download).

In addition, you can now see the correct content on line via http://www.tpassist.com/tutorials/TPAssistMMAHelp/index.html and there is a recently uploaded PDF at http://www.tpassist.com/tutorials/TPAssist2007_Help_WebContent.pdf.

NEWSLETTER - TPAssist 2007 v1.5 Released

TPAssist 2007 version 1.5

TPAssist 2007 version 1.5 is available for download.This "first anniversary" update includes many new features and enhancements. These include:

• Financial Capabilities that allow you to manage effort and costs with-in your maps.
• The ability to export map project and task information to Microsoft Excel in a format suitable for generating pivot tables and charts.
• A Microsoft Project export capability that is Multimap enabled, supports effort and fixed cost and will perform roll-up of task information to produce overview or summary project Gantt charts.
• A growing list of features and capabilities that enhance your Mindjet Connect experience. These including the Attachment Cache, My Tasks, Multimap export to Excel and the new Multimap enabled Microsoft Project export.
• Several productivity enhancement, including "My Tasks", export To-Dos, customisable "Topic Status", Update Outlook Integration, Multi-select Journaling, Multi-select Topic properties, enhanced resource handling, file shortcut support, customisable HTML Viewer page and topic tree template creator.
• The ability to track and compare original target date verses actual completion.
• A set of new MindManager 7 Ribbon short-cut commands and finally a number of "under the bonnet" performance enhancements and fixes.

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• Supercharge your mind map based task lists, get task detail roll-up, capture and roll-up financial information, enable workflow and create workplace Dashboards.
• Export task and financial information to Microsoft® Excel®.
• Integrate with Microsoft® Outlook®
• Work in Multimap mode.

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Did you know that TPAssist has two licensing models: subscription (rented) or product (perpetual). The subscription can be taken out for 1, 2 or 3 years. The longer the term the bigger the discount. Obtaining your first or new license is a simple matter of running the Licensing Wizard from the Help window and choosing the "Shop Now" or "Buy Now..." button. The Licensing Wizard typically selects a 12 month subscription and places it in your basket. If that isn't your preferred choice or you are looking for bigger discounts, click the Trash Can and return to the Product Catalog.

Customer Testimonials:

"For my own professional purposes - as a daily business user (bank consultant) – my view is that, with the release of Version 1.5, TPAssist 2007 has just surpassed the general utility of ResultsManager 2 Pro product."

Alan B. Haskell, AAP, CFE

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TPAssist 2007 version 1.5 - What's New

TPAssist 2007 for Mindjet® MindManager® version 1.5 includes many new features and improvements. These include:

• Financial Capabilities that allow you to manage effort and costs with-in your maps.

• The ability to export map project and task information to Microsoft Excel in a format suitable for generating pivot tables and charts.

• A Microsoft Project export capability that is Multimap enabled, supports effort and fixed cost and will perform roll-up of task information to produce overview or summary project Gantt charts.

• A growing list of features and capabilities that enhance your Mindjet Connect experience. These including the Attachment Cache, My Tasks, Multimap export to Excel and the new Multimap enabled Microsoft Project export.

• Several productivity enhancement, including "My Tasks", export To-Dos, customisable "Topic Status", Update Outlook Integration, Multi-select Journaling, Multi-select Topic properties, enhanced resource handling, file shortcut support, customisable HTML Viewer page and topic tree template creator.

• The ability to track and compare original target date verses actual completion.

• A set of new MindManager 7 Ribbon short-cut commands and finally a number of "under the bonnet" performance enhancements and fixes.

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TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - Release Notes

TPAssist 2007 version 1.5 is now available for download.





Key new Features:

1. Financial Capabilities that allow you to manage effort and costs with-in your maps.



2. The ability to export map project and task information to Microsoft Excel in a format suitable for generating pivot tables and charts.



3. A Microsoft Project export capability that is Multimap enabled, supports effort and fixed cost and will perform roll-up of task information to produce overview or summary project Gantt charts.



4. A growing list of features and capabilities that enhance your Mindjet Connect experience. These including the Attachment Cache, My Tasks, Multimap export to Excel and the new Multimap enabled Microsoft Project export.



5. Several productivity enhancement, including "My Tasks", export To-Dos, customisable "Topic Status", Update Outlook Integration, Multi-select Journaling, Multi-select Topic properties, enhanced resource handling, file shortcut support, customisable HTML Viewer page and topic tree template creator.



6. The ability to track and compare original target date verses actual completion.



7. A set of new MindManager 7 Ribbon short-cut commands and finally a number of "under the bonnet" performance enhancements and fixes.

Enhancements:

1. Excel Export makes better use of the progress bar - increasing feedback on progress and properly supporting the cancel capability.



2. Export to Excel's Task List capability has been restructured decreasing the build time.



3. Export to Excel performs "auto-row" in more key places.



4. Overhaul of the the "Progress Bar" functionality and usage to improve feedback to long-running activities.



5. The Document Tab of TPAssist Console has been re-organised again such that it is more intuitive and that the most used features are more accessible.



6. Excel Export "issues" template has been evolved to make it applicable to a wider set of applications.

Fixes:

1. Levelling/Auto-date now taking into account hyperlinked topics.



2. Licensing Wizard now restored discounted subscription keys.



3. (1.4 bug) Tree Update not functioning correctly on "in-map" hyperlinked topics.



4. Tree Update not working in Floating Topics Trees.



5. Levelling/Auto-date "FF" function not working correctly.



6. Excel Export doesn't open Excel if no focus topic.



7. (1.4 bug) Tree Update completed hyperlinked topics didn't count towards parent's percent complete.



8. (1.4 bug) Resource Filter in Task Summary not working.



9. Journal Tab "duration" now defaults blank entries back to zero.



10. Outlook "link" e-mail item, when Outlook integration enabled by default, creates duplicate Outlook Tasks.



11. Dialogs get lost when error message or another application activates during open.



12. Tree Update of topics linked to specific submaps topics being back status of central topic, not target topic.



13. Licensing Wizard requiring administrator mode after install in Vista when UAC enabled.



14. Task Summary "Active Only" flag not bring ignored for "in the past" and "no date" items.



15. MM error message being hidden during Tree Updates of broken submaps links.



16. (1.4 bug) Tree Update not processing in-map target topic when "omit from tree update" on.



17. (1.5 beta bug) Tree Update crashing when closing an unchanged sub map.



18. Journal abbreviation too short.



19. Levelling/Auto-date not getting next date when first date in tree isn't set to level or is hyperlinked.



20. Levelling/Auto-date should not process priority 1, 2 or 3 topics.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Productivity enhancements

TPAssist 2007 version 1.5 comes with several productivty focused enhancements:

• Productivity enhancements Use the "My Tasks" Task Summary filter to extract and summarise only task assigned to you.


• Build and then export the "Task Summary" to create portable "to-do" lists.


• "Topic Status" is now customisable and can include any existing TPAssist value-added properties plus work and other financial details, including estimates, actual and remaining values.


• Update Outlook Integration is a new Document tool that performs a batch up update of all topic that are using TPAssist's Outlook integration. This tools catches and synchronises changes to made with-in Outlook or the map topics.


• The Journal Tab is now Multi-select enabled, permitting you to make changes to a selection of topics at the same time.


• The Properties component of the Topic Tab is now multi-select enabled, permitting you to make changes to a selection of topics at the same time.


• Resource Handling has been extended, in addition to adding Full Name and Hourly Rates for use in financial capabilities and publishing, you can now import these resource details from other maps and pick your resources via the Journal Tab.


• The "Topic" tab now includes a tool for linking files or URLs directly to focus topics as "Shortcuts", therefore providing you the ability to "link" multiple items to a topic and avoiding the need to store the file with-in your map.


• Customisable "Display" properties in Topic - Topic Handing - support for exposing TPAssist "extra" properties as custom properties - making the visible and editable.


• The page size in the HTML viewer creation tool can now be customised so you can choose the window into your maps for non MindManager users.


• Create topic tree templates from existing topic trees, whereby the topics are "reset", removing any journals and attachments, leaving them ready to re-use.


• Project tracking - "Original Target Date" - Capture and manage topic task "original target date" (as well as Due Date). Export task list to the new Excel "Pivot Source" format and perform rich analysis of task completion performance.


• MindManager Ribbon short-cut commands - Manage groups of tasks quickly and effectively with the new Ribbon short-cuts.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Accelerator for Mindjet Connect

TPAssist enhances your Mindjet Connect experience through a growing list of features and capabilities, including the Attachment Cache, My Tasks, Multimap export to Excel and the new Multimap enabled Microsoft Project export.

TPAssist helps:

• Keep the rich capabilities of organising e-mails with-in your map and make use of an "Attachment Cache" and automated short-cuts to reduce download times and online storage.


• Provide a summary of your assignments, by using the "My Tasks" Task Summary filter to extract and summarise only task assigned to you.


• Increase your effectiveness by allowing you to break your projects up into smaller, manageable pieces and as well as rolling-up topic status and other details, publish and analyse your projects in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Microsoft Project publish

TPAssist's publish to Microsoft Project capability extracts information from the current map and its sub maps (if required) to produce a single project Gantt. The makes use of the fixed costs, full names and hourly rates capability in TPAssist, is Multimap enabled and will allow the roll-up of topics to produce overview or summary project Gantt charts.
Using this tool you can:

• Publish summarises and subsets of your project maps, not loosing any valuable resource detail.



• Make use of the TPAssist's "Financial Capabilities" and publish duration, effort/work and fixed costs from your project and task map into Microsoft Project.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Excel Export - "Pivot Source"

In addition to producing a number of "ready to print" reports, TPAssist will export map project and task information to a format suitable for generating pivot tables and charts. This capability unleashes the potential types of reports and analysis possible with mind map details.

In summary, this new feature includes:

• Export to Excel "Pivot Source" worksheet - flat export of mind map end topics to worksheet in a format suitable for pivot tables and charts.




• Export to Excel "Status Source" worksheet - flat export of mind map end topics to worksheet in a format suitable for pivot tables and charts, plus filtering




• Manipulate and analysis task "work", costs and categorises.




• Categorise topics perform detailed analysis with Excel Pivot tables.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Financial Capabilities

TPAssist's Financial Capabilities allow you to manage estimated, actual and remaining "Work" and topic "Values" directly with-in your map topics.

With the Financial Capabilities turned-on you can:

• Incorporate resource effort "Work" (not just Duration) and other cost management capabilities in topics and have that detail rolled-up to parent topics and maps.




• Manage estimated, actual and remaining work and cost values for topic, topic trees and maps.




• Have your work, costs and other TPAssist "extra" properties displayed directly on the map with automatically populated titles and "Display" custom properties.




• Use Excel to further analyse work and costs using the improved "Pivot Source" Excel Export function.




• Publish work effort and fixed costs into Microsoft Project.