V5.5.4 [2016-10-19]
- Bug fixing: #2349, #2353
V5.5.3 [2016-10-11]
- Bug fixing: #2328, #2332, #2333, #2334, #2345
V5.5.2 [2016-09-26]
- Bug fixing: #2298, #2299, , #2301, , #2302, #2305, #2307, #2308, #2309
V5.5.1 [2016-09-08]
- Bug fixing: #2292, #2293, , #2294, , #2295, #2296
V5.5.0 [2016-09-05]
- Financial
- Management of call for tenders
- Management of provider offers
- Management of the ratings for tenders
- Adding provider contact on Project Expense
- Real Work Allocation
- Can enter a comment on each line of real work allocation screen
- Possibility to insert new comment as a note on the activity
- Comments entered on the real work allocation screen are also visible on corresponding assignments
- Possibility to block input of work in the future, except for administrative projects
- "Template" projects and projects "under construction" are not displayed on the real work allocation screen
- Display of the total for the week
- Possibility to show the id of the activity
- Consolidation at project level of the input for each day
- Possibility to extend the main comment area
- Sending alerts (email or internal warning) weekly if input for the period is not complete
- Sending alerts (email or internal warning) if real work is entered by someone else
- Indicators
- Addition of the indicator "respect of expected tender date" to the Tenders
- Addition of the indicator "respect of expense planned date" for Individual Expenses
- Addition of the indicator "respect of expense planned date" for Project Expenses
- Addition of the indicator "respect of delivery date" for Project Expenses
- Addition of the indicator "respect of offer validity end date" for Quotations
- Addition of the indicator "respect of requested end date" for Orders
- Addition of the indicator "respect of validated end date" for Orders
- Addition of the indicator "respect of planned end date" for Terms
- Addition of the indicator "respect of validated date" for Terms
- Addition of the indicator "respect the treatment date" for Terms
- Addition of the indicator "respect of payment due date" for bills
- Addition of the indicator "respect of treatment date" for bills
- Addition of the indicator "respect of meeting start date" for meetings
- Formatting alert emails (triggered by indicators) like emails sent from an item (with the detailed description of the item)
- Interface
- Addition of the last update date on the tickets, activities and projects
- Possibility to record with CTRL + S when entering the CK Editor in full screen mode
- Possibility to exit full screen mode of CK Editor with the "Esc" key
- When creating a link, users see only the items they are allows to see (list is resticted to visible menus)
- When copying an item as another one, users see only the items they are allows to see (list is resticted to visible menus)
- Other
- Change of project code when copying the project, which allows to calculate a suitable reference for each new activity when copying the project structure
- Possibility to link a contact to a provider
- List of related contacts on the provider form
- Possibility to update the priority and indicators "under construction" and "fix planning" through multiple updates
- Control the uniqueness of the version name when the name is automatically calculated from the product name and version number
- Bug fixing: #2280, #2291
V5.4.5 [2016-08-28]
- Bug fixing: #2271, #2272, #2273, #2281, #2284, #2285, #2286
V5.4.4 [2016-08-09]
- Bug fixing: #2229, #2239, #2240, #2241, #2257
V5.4.3 [2016-07-19]
- Bug fixing: #2192, #2196, #2214, #2215, #2216
V5.4.2 [2016-07-07]
- Bug fixing: #2170, #2184, #2185, #2186
V5.4.1 [2016-07-02]
- Bug fixing: #2144, #2145, #2149, #2150, #2152, #2154, #2158 #2160
V5.4.0 [2016-06-27]
- Tickets dashboard
- Integration of tickets dashboard
- Tickets dashboard includes several small reports listing the number of tickets by type, priority, requestor, responsible, status, product, original version of the ticket, target version of the ticket
- Several direct filters on the Tickets dashboard: unresolved, recently added, recently solved, recently updated, unplanned
- Direct access to the list of tickets from an item on any small report
- Tickets management
- Addition of the "resolution" of the ticket describing the solution provided (or not) to the Ticket
- Management of the list of resolutions, indicating the criteria "solved" or not to the given resolution
- Addition of "solved" indicator to the ticket, updated from the "resolution" of the ticket.
- Automatic allocation of the responsible of the ticket when selecting the product or component
- Project management
- Added indicator "under construction" on projects
- If a project is "under construction", no automatic email is sent for the elements of the project
- The indicator "under construction" is automatically turned off demending on the project status
- On affectation list, when clicking on name of resource, go to resources (instead of affectation), and reversly from resource go to project
- Financial
- Addition of the management of suppliers
- Complement on the project expense object with the same level of information as a bill, to enable purchase management
- Reports
- Reports: sorting projects lists by WBS
- Planning management
- PDF export identical to the version displayed (with all details and links between tasks), with export possible on many pages
- New PDF export settings: zoom, focus, repeat headers
- Significant improvement in PDF export of planning: computing time greatly shortened, no more load on the server
NB: This new feature is technically complex and can not be compatible wil all browsers, this first version is enabled only with Chrome.
Add $pdfPlanningBeta='true'; in parameters.php to enable it with all browsers, and $pdfPlanningBeta='false'; to completely disable it.
- Interfaces
- Numbers and other numeric items are right justified
- Ability to research projects in the selector: new list type without auto-complete to search into the name of projects
- Possibility to not copy the result when copying an item
- Ability to share a filter with other users
- Spell check in the editor (CKEditor)
- Ability to preview documents and versions of documents attached if the files are images or PDF
- Other
- Allow to manage "private" actions to manage a personal "todo-list"
- Added field responsible on product
- Added field responsible on component
- Confirmation when deleting an affectation to project for the current user
- When deleting an assignment, delete the corresponding planned work
- Lock the definition of number of hours per day when some real work has been entered
- Reformat of email invite for meetings to be compatible with Zimbra
- In the emails sent, url of images are transcribed in order to be displayed in the email
- When generating a PDF, the file name is formatted according to the printed item
- Technical
- Integration of Dojo 1.11.1 (improvement is not unidentified, if any)
- Validation of the compatibility for PHP 7
- Bug fixes: #2070, #2074, #2088, #2089, #2091, #2101, #2110 #2111, #2133, #2134, #2138, #2139
V5.3.5 [2016-06-12]
- Bug fixing : #2131
V5.3.4 [2016-06-10]
- Bug fixing: #2117
V5.3.3 [2016-05-02]
- Bug fixing: #2034, #2041, #2044, #2050, #2052, #2056, #2057, #2060, #2061, #2063
V5.3.2 [2016-04-17]
- Bug fixing: #2031, #2032, #2048
V5.3.1 [2016-03-30]
- Bug fixing: #2027, #2028, #2029
V5.3.0 [2016-03-28]
- Management of components and products
- Management of product type
- Management of component types
- On versions of products, ability to automatically format the version name from the product name and version number
- On versions of components, ability to automatically format the name of the version from the component name and version number
- On tickets, provide separate selection for component and component versions, products and product versions
- Management of links between product versions and component versions
- Management of long fields (with text editor)
- Option to choose a "plain text" editor which allows the formatting, in addition to existing "formatted text" editors (CK Editor and Editor Dojo)
- Compatibility preserved between "plain text" editions and "formatted text" editions:
- Maximum preservation of line breaks and presentation when displaying as "plain text" a text entered as "formatted text"
- When recording an object with a field in "plain text" that is not changed, the formatting is not lost
- When recording changes for a field in "plain text", only formating is lost (line breaks are kept)
- When sending emails, fields containing more than 4000 characters are converted to "plain text" (loss of format) and truncated to 4000 characters (before, they were replaced by "...")
- On export, default export of long "formatted text" fields in "plain text"
- On export, possibility to preserve the html format (check box to activate on the export pop-up)
- When re-importing some exported object, long "formatted text" field that have not been modified are not (as far as possible) disturbed (no loss of formatting) although the import field appears without formatting (it is however advisable to export data in html if they contain complex array type format)
- Financial:
- New "financial gallery": centralized display of attachments (pdf) on financial items
- Added direct selection by customer list (on quotes, orders, invoices, payments)
- interface:
- Ability to preview versions of documents, as it was already possible for attachments.
- Delay for pop-up menu displays (favorite reports, menu selector, registered filters) to avoid nuisance displays and enhance user comfort
- New custom menu where you can add the icons of menu you use most
- Miscellaneous:
- On multiple updates, possibility to update the parent activity and planning activity
- Ability to automatically scroll the "Today" screen, with regular refreshment (scroll and and refreshment delays can be changed)
- On the management of plugins, can delete a loaded plugin file that was not installed
- On tickets, requestor automatically set to the current user if he is a contact
- A user who has no team can not enter notes nor attached file with a "team" level of visibility
- On creation of a new user from LDAP, possibility to also create the resource and/or the contact for the user
- Direct selection by customer on the lists of objects referencing the customer (projects, quotes, orders, invoices, payments)
- Direct selection by element on the lists of objects by element (sending mails, indicators, predefined notes, checklists)
- Technical:
- Extension of the management of plugins: new events "query" and "list" to dynamically manage list views
- Plugin management: directories are created during the installation, if necessary, when copying or moving files
- Remove of the prerequisite for php_mysql: this extension is deprecated in PHP7
- Migration of html2pdf to V4 (no significant impact)
- Bug fixing: #1984, #1986, #1989
V5.2.5 [2016-03-12]
- Bug fixing: #1991, #1993, #1995, #1996, #1997, #2001
V5.2.4 [2016-02-21]
- Bug fixing: #1969, # 1976, #1977, #1979, #1981
- Upgrade of user manual
V5.2.3 [2016-02-14]
- Bug fixing: #1946, # 1950, #1951, #1956, #1958, #1963, #1964, #1967, #1968, #1971
V5.2.2 [2016-01-26]
- Bug fixing: #1927, # 1932, #1935, #1936, #1937, #1938, #1939, #1942, #1943, #1945
V5.2.1 [2016-01-13]
- Bug fixing: #1913, # 1914, #1915, #1916, #1917, #1918, #1919, #1923, #1925
V5.2.0 [2016-01-10]
- Improvements on GUI side:
- A new text editor for edition of long fields: CKEditor
This editor, more comprehensive than the previous one, allows for example to insert images from the clipboard (eg after a print-screen) or via drag & drop.
This new editor is the default editor.
The choice of the editor used is at the choice of the user, with a selected default editor globally. - When displaying an alert (bottom-right pop-up), new button to mark as read all remaining alerts (the number appears on the button)
- Selector menu: the list is now displayed automatically without clicking (just on mouse over).
- The position of "sliders" separation (between list and detail or between menu and main screen) is saved and retreived on each connection (for each element type)
- The selected "accordion" area in the left part of the screen ("Menu"/"Documents" and "External shortcuts"/"Console messages") is saved and retreived on each connection
- A new text editor for edition of long fields: CKEditor
- Managing Components
- Rename of Product Versions to Versions
- Adding Components
- Adding Components Versions
- Manage lists of Components linked to the Products
- Management lists of Products linked to the Components
- On products and compostants, can display the structure Products / Components from the current item (all parents, all children)
- Replacement of lists "product" by "product or component" that also integrates the components list
- The list of versions also integrates components lists
- Default planning mode
- Set the default planning mode for the types of activity, types of milestones and types of test sessions
- Default planning mode initialized when creating item
- Changing the planning mode when changing the type (for activities, milestones and testing sessions)
- Restriction of types (business, tickets, ...) per project
- For each type of project, can define types used for each element (activity, tickets, ...)
- Ability to set additional restrictions for each project
- The administrator can define if adding project restriction is possible or not
- Restriction of the list of types according to the defined limits
- Dynamic update of the list of types when changing the project
- Plugins:
- Management of plug-ins by event: ability to trigger code on events "beforeSave", "afterSave", "beforeDelete", "afterDelete", "control" and "deleteControl"
- Preparation of screens customization plugin (add / remove fields, field masking for each type)
- Management of costs and work for tickets:
- On the activity, highlighting the estimated work on the tickets if it is higher than the assigned work on the activity
- On the activity, highlighting the left work on the tickets if it is greater than the left work on the activity
- Sum of cost of tickets included in the total cost of the activity
- Work on tickets not linked to a planning activity integrated in total work of the project
- Managing affectations:
- Possibility of replacing an existing assignment by another (alternative resource)
- Automatic replacement of the assignments of the old resource to the new resource.
- Ability to indicate when this replacement takes place
- Add affectation description, with input in creation and update of affectation
- Display of affectation description in "tooltip" style on affectations list
- Miscellaneous:
- Ability to choose whether the CSV export must be done in UTF-8 (for languages not ISO) or encoded CP1252 (for integration in Excel for languages of Western Europe including English)
- New importortable items: component, component version, product structure, invoice, payment, cost of resources
- Hide bouton "change password" on user parameter screen if user connects through LDAP
- Ease in selection of version linked to a project : input of product to reduce versions list and acces to extended versions list
- Bug fixing: # 1894, # 1900, #1868, #1869, #1877, #1878, #1887, #1894, #1900, #1902, #1904, #1907, #1911
V5.1.5 [2015-12-10]
- Bug fixing: #1884, #1885, #1886, #1888, #1889, #1890, #1892
V5.1.4 [2015-11-26]
- Bug fixing: #1864, #1865, #1866, #1875, #1876, #1880, #1882
V5.1.3 [2015-11-16]
- Bug fixing: #1857, #1860
V5.1.2 [2015-11-08]
- Bug fixing: #1843, #1844, #1845, #1846, #1852
V5.1.1 [2015-11-01]
- Bug fixing: #1828, #1829, #1830, #1831, #1833, #1839, #1840, #1842
V5.1.0 [2015-10-25]
- GUI improvments
- Possibility to view online the PDF files attached (no need to download the file first)
- When sending an email, can save the message entered as a note on the item
- Hide LDAP and SMTP passwords on the global parameters screen
- Control on login form that the browser is not IE7 or below (IE8 minimum required)
- Addition of decisions, questions, quotes, orders and invoices on Today screen
- Ability to use the numeric keypad point: the point will be replaced by a comma if the mumeric format requires it
- Reliability of navigation in history (top right buttons)
- Calendar view: possibility to display or not the done and closed items
- Finalization of renaming the "planned work" to "re-evaluated work" (on planning, real work allocations and reports)
- Display of the list of linked tickets (through the planning activity) on Activities
- Managing favorite reports
- Added a report to the list of favorite reports (such as adding to the Today screen)
- Display of the list of favorite reports when moving the mouse over the reports menu icon (in the top bar)
- Direct display of the selected report (in print mode), without leaving the current screen
- Direct deletion of a report in the favorites list
- Ability to sort the list of favorites
- Financial
- On invoices, entering the payment delay (as a configurable list) and determining the payment deadline (from the invoice date and payment delay)
- On invoices, details of the amounts (excluding VAT, VAT included) information and payment information
- On invoices, management of responsible
- On the recipient, legal information that will appear on invoices
- On recipient, reformatting bank details
- Add detail lines for quotes and orders (like invoices)
- Improvment of the display of detail lines, eg indicating the unit used
- On orders, details of the amounts (excluding VAT, VAT included) with amendment line and column for corresponding work
- Management of the transmission mode for quotes, invoices and orders
- Parameters for units, payment delays, payment methods, transmission modes (sending or receiving)
- Payment management with link on invoices and control of invoices balance
- Real Work Allocation
- Improved display performance (gain of 30% compared to V5.0, and 40% compared to V4.5)
- The header of table (with column names) is fixed, visible, whatever the scrolling on imputation lines
- Footer of table (with the sum of inputs) remains visible, fixed, as soon as the number of lines is greater than 20
- Automatic status change: to the first "in progress" status when first real work is entered, to the first "done" status when there is no more left work
- Parameters for automatic status change
- Display of icons on the task if a status change will to be applied
- Recording the actual work changes on the history of the activity
- Direct access to the activity by clicking on the name of the activity
- Display of activity detail (in a pop-up) by clicking on the activity icon
- Deletion of the planned work when the real work is entered (to avoid duplication of work in reports)
- Planning
- On the Gantt view, possibility to have an automatic recalculation of the planning on each change
- Work reports take into account the planned and the real work in the future (1/2 real day + 1/2 planned day on a task appears as one full busy day)
- Display of resources in Resource columns even if "show resource" is not checked (to show resources beside Gantt bar)
- If display of resource is set to dispaly "initials" (instead of name) and initals are not set for the resource, get initials from resource name (first letter of each word in name)
- Renumber of WBS on item deletion, to avoid hole in WBS numbering
- Performance
- Improved display performance of real work allocation screen (gain of 30% compared to V5.0, and 40% compared to V4.5)
- Improved copy project performance (gain of 80% to 90% compared to V5.0)
- Plugins
- Management of plugins
- Possibility to install a plugin from the interface
- Display of installed plugins
- User manual
- Rebuilt of user manual to "sphynx doc" format for a powerful html documentation, dynamic and pleasant to see (thank you to Richard Paré for his work that offers us this new manual)
- User manual in PDF format
- Preparing user manual for the translation
- Bug fixing : #1709, #1788, #1790, #1792, #1793, #1795, #1797, #1798, #1800, #1802, #1803, #1811, #1818, #1819, #1822
V5.0.6 [2015-10-03]
- Bug fixing: #1799, #1804, #1807, #1808, #1809
V5.0.5 [2015-08-17]
- Bug fixing: #1773, #1787
V5.0.4 [2015-08-05]
- Prerequisite validation (on setup and on upgrade): initally planned on V5.1, done on 5.0.4 to avoid errors concerning required mbstring module.
- Upgrade of PhpMailer librairy to 5.2.10
- Bug fixing: #1766, #1767, #1768, #1771
V5.0.3 [2015-07-14]
- Bug fixing: #1708, #1762, #1763, #1764
V5.0.2 [2015-07-09]
- Bug fixing: #1743, #1747, #1749, #1750, #1751, #1753, #1758, #1759, #1760, #1761
V5.0.1 [2015-06-23]
- Bug fixing: #1723, #1724, #1725, #1726, #1728, #1729, #1730, #1731, #1733, #1737
V5.0.0 [2015-06-15]
- Improved UI:
- New logo
- 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
- Messages:
- Formatting of messages (color, bold, ...)
- Possibility to display messages on login screen
- 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
- Bug fixing: #1653, #1671, #1678, #1684, #1688, #1690, #1695, #1697, #1698, #1706, #1707, #1712