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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

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

New Feature

See our post here for more details

  • Data Import and Synchronisation to Asta Powerproject

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

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