Turbo Chart Change Log
SOFTWARE UPDATE RELEASES
Change Log
Fix
- Update to MPP Import/Sync for issue where file contains baseline dates
Fix
- Updated application certificates (see Download page)
Fix
- Highlighter text when using both date and location values now rotates correctly.
Enhancement
- Minor upgrade to .NET
Enhancement
- Improvements to Interactive Viewer (See More Details) including Menu on/off toggle button. Select/Un-Select all ShapeCode buttons.
New Feature
- Generate Interactive Viewer files of charts (See More Details)
Fixes
- MS Project date handling for exceptional dates
Enhancement
- MS Project import now includes additional numeric fields, upto Number20
- MS Project import now indicates Custom Field Alias name – eg. Number 1 (Start Location)
Fix
- Better Handling of UTC date formats from MS Project Data
Enhancement
- Both ID and Unique ID used as Name field from MS Project Imports. Previously only ID was used.
eg. Name Previously displayed as “56“, Now displayed as “56 (UID=1856)“
Enhancement
- Improved handling of legacy Turbo-Chart files
Enhancement
- Minor upgrade to .NET
Fixes
- resolved legacy Highlighters crashing upon deletion or pasting from clipboard
See article here on updates
New Features
- Highlighters provide preview of Highlighter line
- Improved Location Code display formatting, including Background and border colour, text colour, text rotation and location code gridline formatting
- Location code dialog now modeless and can stay as edits are made
Enhancement
- Location Codes now set to Task Location Library
- Print Preview Mode now in FILE Menu
See article here on updates
New Features
- Highlighters now support the ability to display text at the top and/or bottom (or left and/or right).
- Highlighter text can now be rotated to be aligned with the axis text
Enhancement
- Highlight dialog is now modeless and can stay as edits are made
The active highlighter is now shown with a green border
See article here on updates
New Features
- Ability to replace an image on a page layout graphic
- Ability to replace an image on a chart graphic
Enhancement
- Chart Annotations window is now modeless, allowing users to select and edit annotations on the chart whilst the window is open
- Chart Annotations window includes details of each annotation
- When switching between datasets the selected task is unhighlighted
Fix
- DateTime/location annotations stay in the correct position after editing
- Ctrl+E export to PDF (as menu suggests)
Enhancement
- Check for missing datasets on load, create if required
Fix
- New Safran v21 connections
Fix
- Improved loading from P6 Web Services Multiple Databases
Fix
- Updated Security Certificate
Enhancement
- Improvement to Manage Chart options (see post)
New Feature
- Ability to display or hide all shape codes from the legend (see post)
Enhancement
- Delete a dataset is now much quicker
- Icons improved for changing shape order in legend
Bug Fix
- Switching views correctly updates the legend list at the correct time
New Feature
Added browse button for PrmBootstrapv2.xml in Tools>Options Menu
Enhancement
Added Locations codes to MS Project import and re-sync
Added Location codes to Safran import and re-sync
Add option to Safran re-sync new tasks
Bug Fix
Safran re-sync using the active dataset
New Feature
- Added import menu links to help videos
- Trial user emails
Enhancement
- Changed the Paste Wizard expected column names for Start/End location codes.
- Added location code import to P6 Web Services connections
- Added location code to import P6 connections
Bug Fix
- Trial users first email
Fix
- Error While connecting to P6 Web Services resolved.
Fix
- Trial startup includes links to purchase licenses
Fix
- Minor Amendment to licensing mechanism
Fix
- Trials now indicate remaining days upon launch.
Enhancement
- Improved license activation method
Fix
- Annotation positioning fix
Enhancements
- Additional Shape Fill Patterns, see here
Fixes:
- Support for cookies when connecting to P6 Web Services
- Support for TLS1.2
Enhancements
- Support for time (HH:mm) on Date Highlighters when using Day time units
- P6 Webservices connections now remembers correct DB instance
Fixes:
- Fixes applied to P6 Web Services connection importing of date fields
- Hidden chart image and location axes corrected
New Feature:
- Location Coding , inlcuding:
- Location code library, saving & opening location library files
- Add, Delete and Paste Location code library
- Additional paste wizard field for location coding
- Chart options to display location codings on location axis
Enhancement:
- New splash screen, logo and icon
Bug Fix:
- Warn if there is no active dataset when trying to import (all sources – P6, MSP etc)
Enhancement:
- For Asta PowerProject importing, use the bar name if the task name is empty.
New Features
- New functionality of Paste Wizard to enable mapping of spreadsheet data fields into dataset.
Fix
- Correctly loads P6 bootstrap files for CloudDatabases where no password is supplied
New Features
- Import multiple projects from P6 when connecting via P6 Webservices
New Features
- Added ‘day’ option to Timeline scale
- Dates will include hours when ActiveChart using ‘day’
Enhancements
- Properties time now correctly display time when printing (e.g. 14:00 would have displayed as 02:00)
- P6WS out of Beta
- P6WS now has a remember password option
Bug Fixes
- Copied end shapes will not affect other shapes
- TC will not crash when trying to import dates with NA from MSP
New Features
Option for network licence, with concurrency and checkout
Fixes
- Primavera P6 connectivity via Web Services now work over https connections
- Primavera P6 WebServices offers database instance choice on login
Fixes
Text occasionally not displaying in rectangle shapes
- Correctly detecting P6 Bootstrap.xml file for P6 Release 18
Enhancements
- Icons added to various dialogs (mostly p6, project, safran, PP)
- Removed internal references to Start/FinishDate2,3
New Features
- Ability to connect to P6 via Web Services
Fixes
Fixed reversed week numbers
Fixed showing critical paths in multiple datasets
Enhancements
See our post here for more details
Criticality shown as a border rather than just red (thus retaining the original shape)
Criticality display options (colour, thickness and opacity) can be set in the chart options.
End Shapes now show criticality
End shapes can now be clicked to activate the task
Improvements
- Modified activation process to prevent users clicking the button multiple times
Fixes
- Problem resolved for Oracle P6 users who had viewed Tools Options in previous versions
Enhancements
- Next/Previous and Close buttons improved
- Oracle connection sting removed from options as not needed.
New Features
- Can show critical path on all datasets
- Import of Asta files available from File Open menu (not yet re-syncing)
Fixes
Shape start/end shapes (for milestones) can be clicked to activate task
Enhancements
Task shape selector changed from radio button to tab
New Features
Triangle shapes (increasing and decreasing) supported. More information available on this post
Fixes
- Printing now supports page orientation
Enhancements
- Printing generally improved for printing to paper, plus more reliably to pdf.
- Zooming with scroll wheel now zooms to mouse location
- Revised start-up/trial process. (Window minimised, EULA first, buttons on activation moved).
- Trial Sample File updated
New Features
- Use Alt + mouse to pan the page (no need to use scroll bars)
- Use touch (pinch/zoom and pan) to move paper.
Fixes
Fixed issue on Highlighters where position axis was reversed
Fixes
Fix issue where highlighters with finish position less than start appear incorrectly when position scale is reversed.
Do not include deleted tasks when importing/re-syncing from P6
Do not crash if chart has no active DataSets
File New is zoomed to fit
New Feature
Added Project Properties – more in our article on Using Project Properties
Project Properties and other fields that can be embedded in page layouts (using {} )
Enhancement
Legend drawing slightly improved
Title added to project (for printing) when importing from XER
Fixes
Chart does not keep best fitting when moving between tasks
Copying page graphics does not cause multiple layouts to highlight
Page Layout Highlights removed when page layout closed
New Feature
Ability to hide tasks on chart – useful for checking only the graphics/highlighters etc on a chart
Ability to hide calendars on chart
Enhancement
Legend will always scale to fit the space available
Speed of moving shapes in the legend increased
Moved Up/Down buttons to the legend tab (from the task window)
Fixes
Opening charts with annotations linked to task that does not exist
Can download sample files a second time (it will create a new folder)
Zoom to fit after importing from P6
View our article highlighting v1.2 here
New Feature
- Chart options dialog enhanced and put into tabs
- Specify the font type, size and colour for the legend text
- Line styles (dotted etc) added for timeline and distance graph
- Fill down added to task, highlighters and shapes datagrids
Enhancement
- Support for multi-region dates (region on PC, not just EN_US)
- Legend auto scales if too wide
- Warn if trying to resync with no datasource
- Unknown data columns types are ignored when pasting from clipboard to activity datagrid
- Sliders converted to spinners for opacity/blend etc
- Various dialog layout tweaks
Fixes
- Will not crash if trying to create a new shape (empty row removed and replaced with button)
- Fix issue where annotations do not draw correctly because the date field is not set
- Will not crash if tasks do not have values when using best fit
New Feature
- EPS structure now supported when importing from P6
Improvements
Added dataset name to warning about importing into used dataset.
Improved task text position when dates are reversed.
Added line number to logging
Renaming chart name updates the chart tab
Removed the warning when adding a chart image that is not ratio of 6:1 (no longer relevant)
Fixes
- Creating new chart sets a default dataset and zooms chart to fit
- Fixed error importing from p6 Oracle database.
New Features
Ability to rotate the chart image
Ability to reverse the timescale axis
Enhancements
- Chart image will not be restricted to 6:1 ratio and its maximum proportion of the chart size can be controlled. (default is 50%)
Fixes
Paper sizes correctly listed in page setup
Parallel shapes correctly drawn when end is before start
New features
Ability to swap start and end positions of a task
Ability to specify custom page size, and set the paper height and width. (height and width of zero is ignored
Enhancements
Email alerts are now sent securely over https instead of http
Fixes
Bold and Italic chart annotations now save and load correctly
Bold and Italic page annotations now save and load correctly
The selected page size now selects correctly in the page layout
New features
- Ability to use dotted and dashed lines for shapes
Enhancements
- Ability to create a text box annotation linked to task description in single click
Fixes
- Issue with task text sometimes not appearing is fixed
- Text annotations linked to tasks no longer move if the top image or left timeline is changed or hidden.
Issues
- Previous text boxes linked to tasks may have moved slightly depending on tope image and left timeline axis – see above
New features
- Added a menu link to download the help pdf
Enhancements
- Legend auto scales if there are too many shapes displayed to fit (vertical only)
- Pasting into ShapeLibrary from clipboard much faster
Fixes
- Fixed the error where the “TEXT SIZE” was not a valid header on Pasting to Shape Libary
- Fixed an issue where highlighters with only a start value would be drawn off page.
Issue Fixes
- Re-Synching from MS Project no longer creates duplicate tasks
New Features
- Ability to change chart orientation from horizontal to vertical (set per chart in the Chart Options)
Issue Fixes
Slow responsiveness when selecting some text items.
New Features
MS Project import (MPP files) now available on File menu
Implemented ability to sync MS Project files (similar to existing P6 Synchronistion features)
Improvements
Renamed Top Image to Chart Image
Improved general behaviour of annotation dragging
Auto-fit after import to view full range of imported data
Issue Fixes
‘Bring to front’ and ‘Send to back’ options for the graphic
Fixed issues where the task was edited via green lines and related annotations did not move instantly.
XER load shape library works as expected when using File>Primavera>Add Primavera XER option
New Features
- Added ability to move items in Legend
Improvements
- Default shape changed to line (instead of parallel)
- Sped up pasting of data in task dialog
- Selction/click on milestones enabled
- Handled P6 dates (*’s and A’s)
Issue Fixes
- Fixed error of displaying only half arrows
- Saving and loading annotations now working
- Changing end shapes now re-draws chart
- Fixed losing critical path on mouse over
New Features
- Added colour blending in addition to transparency option for 2nd & 3rd data sets.
- Added ability to offset shape codes
- Add ability to offset 2nd/3rd DataSets
Improvements
- Speed up Deleting tasks
- Draw black border around milestone shapes
- Apply opacity to milestone Shapes
- Text not shown for non-primary DataSets
Issue Fixes
- Fixed Safran Re-sync
- Show Text across page if item has same start/end (i.e. is a point)
- XER date loader
- XER import settings memory
- XER import to include load shape file
Note – Installation file size increase to ~61Mb
Enhancements
- Preliminary MS Project Import (*.MPP Files) – from FILE | OPEN menu
- Added font size and colour choices to timeline
- Added option to show week beginning (default for weeks) or week number.
- Added line thickness and colour options for year/month /week
- Added font size and colour choices for position axes
- Added line thickness and colour ops for poition line
Issue Fixes
- Fixed a problem showing a scaled top image if the scale is reversed
- Fixed showing highlighters if the scale is reversed
- Improvements to Export to PDF functionality