Friday, September 5, 2008

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.