V5.0 of projeqtor has been long to come to life.

It is now available with great new features to improve the use of ProjeQtOr.

We hope that the gain on comfort and productivity provided by these improvements will match the work done.

The new features are :

• New Logo
• Improved UI:
  • Overall improvement of the UI: cleaner interface, less packed fields
  • Change of buttons style : more clear and interactive
  • Some rounded fields (on the login page, parameter list ...)
  • Long text fields are no longer limited to 4000 characters and can extend to 16MB
  • Mini editor for long text fields (description, results, notes, ...)
  • Ability to copy / paste MS-Word text to the long text fields
  • Ability to edit long texts in full screen
  • Display information about the creator and the creation date as icons
  • Highlighting of recent items by the color of the creation date icon (red = today, yellow = yesterday)
  • Display the number of elements in the sub-lists (notes, attachments, assignments, ...)
  • Improvement of display in the lists:
    • Display colors as a badge (rounded edges)
    • Display percentage with a progress bar
    • Display photo for resources
  • Improvement of the display of the action messages: clearer, more explicit by type (information, error ...)
  • Change in the organization of the page
    • Details of elements in Full Width
    • Details on 3 columns
  • Highlighting of mandatory fields, with dynamic updates according to data input
• Start Guide:
  • Start page for new installations to assist administrator in the first configuration steps
• Accelerators:
  • Button to skip to the next status without having to open the list
  • Button to set current user as responsible
  • Multiple delete feature
• Contextual menu buttons:
  • Improving the display of menu buttons on the top bar
  • Ability to select a work context to limit the visibility on displayed buttons
• Check-lists:
  • Definition of check-lists: automatic sort order increment
  • User can choose to display the check-list in detail of the element, with direct update, or access through a button
• History:
  • User choice to view the history in detail (as available) or via a button.
• Planning:
  • New planning mode "does not begin before the validated date"
  • New planning mode "regular in quarter days" (similar to "regular" and "regular in half days")
  • New ability to manage dependencies as "not-strict": a task can begin the same day as the preceding one
  • Display of the tasks in the Gantt on creation
  • Shift of tasks in the Gantt on creation of a dependency
  • Respect of meeting dates in the planning: if a participant is not available, he is considered not attending
  • Display on assignments of not planned work (if resource is not able to attend to a meeting or end of affectation prevents to finalize the task)
  • Reliability of the Gantt when the browser zoom is used (a few shifts persist on Chrome)
• Projects:
  • New field "objectives"
  • New field "creation date" (defined for new projects)
  • New fields "work margin" (in days and %) and "costs margin" (in amount and %)
  • Highlight of negative margins and late end-dates
  • Display of the margin in the Today screen
  • Reorganization of the "progress" fields
  • Renaming "planned work" as "reassessed work"
  • Projects with "fixed planning" appear with a "lock" icon in the Gantt
• Activities:
  • Reorganization of the "progress" fields
  • Renaming "planned work" as "reassessed work"
• Tickets:
  • Improvement of real work allocation for Tickets
  • Possibility to dispatch real work (select day, select resource ...)
  • Display detail of work on Tickets on Real work allocation
• Meetings:
  • Display predecessors and successors (dependencies) as for other plannable elements
  • Display of work, cost and priority
  • Respect of meeting dates in the planning: if a participant is not available, he is considered not attending
• Project expense:
  • Input of detail lines, as for individual expense
• User:
  • Ability to force or prevent authentication via LDAP for a given user
  • A user can now have different profiles on different projects
• Deleting items:
  • Improved reliability of controls on delete
  • More explicit control messages on delete for resources, users and contacts
• Agenda view:
  • Possibility to go directly to a specific date selecting the target date in a calendar.
• User Settings:
  • Direct access to user settings via a button at the bottom of page
  • Ability to change own photo
  • Access to change password (no more need to get back to the login screen)
  • Possibility to mark alerts as read (to avoid display of the pop-up for these alerts)
• Improved Performance:
  • Possibility to track processing time for each page including JavaScript treatment (to best represent user experience)
  • Gain of about 0.3 s for each call by desynchronizing the 'fading out' and 'fading in' of display area.
  • Significant improvement (30%) on the schedule display time, very significant when displaying several hundreds of lines in the Gantt.
• Log management:
  • Ability to purge the logs
  • Ability to list the logs
  • Ability to download a log file
  • Ability to view a log file
• Translation
  • Addition of Ukrainian
  • Addition of Canadian French
  • List available languages is now :
    • en => English
    • fr => French,
    • fr-ca => Canadian French,
    • de => German
    • es => Spanish
    • pt => Portuguese,
    • pt-br => Brazilian Portuguese,
    • ru => Russian
    • zh => Chinese (Mandarin),
    • nl => Dutch,
    • fa => Farsi (Persian)
    • ja => Japanese
    • el => Greek
    • ua => Ukrainian
• ... and of course some Bug fixings

Don't hesitate to leave your feedbacks on these new features to point out the ones you like and the ones that annoy you and that would need some changes.