Thursday, September 11, 2008

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.