New Releases: November 2009 Archives

Two blog entries in two days, what is going on! Enough humour, just a very minor release today removing a stray button from the Project Maintenance page and fixing up some form resizing issues on several of the data maintenance pages.

Ouch. I'd forgotten that this blog existed, many apologies to anyone who was coming here to see if there was any news. There's a little bit today that some users may find interesting. I've made a release of Timesheets MTS today that includes a number of fixes, new debugging code to track down persistent errors and some interesting new features and reports. Key changes include:

• A bunch of new debugging code to try to track down 4 or 5 persistent (but minor bugs).
• Added the project classification to the current projects report.
• Added the labor variance report. It's basically a cut down version of the Productivity Report but with a stronger focus on labor metrics.
• Adjusted the default values for estimated task start and end dates so they set themselves to the task creation date rather than some date back in 2005 which is what it was doing.
• Added dependent task timing. Basically this allows you to define an elapsed task duration (which is different to estimated labor hours). Each task can then be given a predecessor dependency and a rough and ready project critical path built up. Task estimated start and end dates are automatically calculated based on the duration of the task and the predecessors that it has.
• Added the project gantt report. This report prints out a gantt style chart of a project showing task timing and also includes a lot of useful labor metrics which are very useful for project tracking.

That's it for this entry. Hopefully it wont be a year until I update this blog next time!