Version 39.5.21 contains: Database 39.5.21, Server 39.5.34, Client 39.5.33

released on: 02/19/2024

  • Below, release notes on PLANTA project user functions are listed. For release notes on the customizing and interface functions, please refer to the PLANTA customizer and PLANTA link help areas.
  • The functions and bugfixes listed here are mainly contained in the database software component. Functions which stem from the server or client component are explicitly indicated in the column on the right-hand side.
  • In the Technology, Installation, and Update help area you can get a comprehensive overview of the PLANTA project releases with links to the corresponding pages as well as information on software installation and update referring to the release you use.
  • Known and fixed issues can be found here.

Press CTRL+B in the program or select the ? → System Information menu item to learn which component versions you use.

Features

KeyDescriptionFrom Server/Client
General


Almost all charts (with only a few exceptions) in the PLANTA project component, that have up to now been available as visifire charts have been changed to a new Synchfusion-Blazor component texhnology and can be adjusted via the PLANTA chart customizer. You can also create new charts using the PLANTA Chart Customizer.


27002

27055

Quick access from the user menu has been extended.

  • The last panels and modules which were directly opened from the user menu are now displayed in the same way as planning objects under Recently viewed and can be marked as favorites. 
  • Portfolios are also included in the quick access and can be marked as favorites both in the user mneu menu and in the Portfolio Core Data module.

Time Recording



Project
26159Resource requests/approvals are now available for subprojects as well.

27020

26885

For the manual load profiles with time grid (PM_DAY, PM_WEEK, PM_MONTH, PM_QUART, PM_YEAR), the option of automated control of under-used or over-used effort per period was implemented by means of underposting correction and overposting correction. For further information, see here.


26941From the Task module you can now also have the utilization of the assigned resources in other projects displayed.
22305If you want to have the utilization of a resource who has left the company displayed, a respective message is displayed. The Show Utilization module is not opened for resources left.
26354An option has been implemented to set the missing actual end date for a project directly during the creation of a final report. For this purpose, a respective query has been implemented.
26788In the Evaluation criteria area of the Project Core Data, Proposal Core Data and Program Core Data modules, the weighted criterion contribution is now displayed additionally for each evaluation criterion. For this purpose, the corresponding column has been unhidden.
26942In the Risks/Opportunities modules of the projects and in the Risks/Opportunities modules of the programs, plus buttons which allow for the simple insertion of new risk or opportunity records have been implemented.
26791

In the Resource Utilization by Skill and Resource Utilization by Code modules, the default period of the scale has been adapted to the period of the data.


27067

For programs and ideas, images can now be stored in the respective core data modules.


24821

In the Project Core Data and Program Core Data modules, the Schedule with gates checkbox is now activated automatically as soon as a main milestone is selected. If a main milestone is removed, the Schedule with gates checkbox remains activated. If changes are made, the time intervals on the gates are now updated when refreshing the Schedule module during scheduling. A client restart is no longer necessary.


27130

The TAB order in the Resource Requests module has been corrected.


27129

Filtering in the Resource Requests module has been optimized.


27109

If project dates are simulated in the portfolio, and projects are therefore shortened or postponed, the expenses that now lie outside the simulation period are no longer hidden, but are displayed in the originally planned months and must/can be redistributed manually by the portfolio manager in accordance with the new dates.


Hybrid pulse/Jira
26719Automatic user synchronization has now also been implemented for the hybrid systems with PLANTA project and Jira.

Bug Fixes

KeyDescriptionFrom Server/Client
General
27027The problem that in the employee board in the Absence of the Department module the absence and vacation values recorded by employees were not summarized to the parent resources (departments, subdepartments), has been resolved.
Project
27017The missing arrows in the Budget module, which serve to transfer the budget from the baseline column to the Budget(w/o SP) and Requested (w/o SP) columns, have now been added again.
27008The performance of the Projects module (multi-project board) has been improved.
26931The format for the display of the year and of the costs has been corrected in some chart tooltips.
27047The problem, that in the status module of the programs, the number of risks displayed in the module itself and the number of risks displayed in the chart did not match, has been resolved.
26928In the Benefits and Revenues area of the Budget module, negative benefit values are displayed now as well.
27075Projects which have no normal status reports but only status reports which were created for simulation purposes can now be deleted.
27077In the pie charts for costs and effort, cost type groups which do not contain values are no longer displayed.
27070The pie chart titles for risks/opportunities is now displayed correctly when languages are switched.
26640The performance of the Schedule module has been substantially improved.
27128If the Resource Requests module is opened from the schedule of a particular project, the Project field is now always set to "output".
27152The cause of the Python error message which was displayed in the Schedule module when attempting to read the task chain of a task via the eponymous context menu command, has been resolved.
27105In the Resource Requests module, a dialog message is now displayed when you try to generate resource requests without filling the Project field.
26846

When using manual load profiles with time grid (PM_DAY, PM_WEEK, PM_MONTH, PM_QUART, PM_YEAR), negative costs no longer arise if more effort is posted than planned. 


26983

The critical path is now calculated and displayed correctly.


Portfolio
27025The problem that when simulating the projects in portfolios, effort values were sometimes no longer displayed in utilization diagrams has been resolved.
PM Administration
26382When creating new resources in the Resource Data Sheet, saving is now refused until all mandatory data fields are filled.
27004A Python error message when filtering for "day" in the filter criteria of the Calendar module has been eliminated.
26518The values for factors 3, 4, and 5 for resources without child resources per day (DT468) are now calculated correctly when refreshing after changes have been made.
26790The period of the calendar listboxes is now represented uniformly in all from/up to (left on) fields.
26997The error message in the Calendar module, which is displayed when holidays for Bavaria are imported while the special holiday for Augsburg is marked as a working day, has been resolved.  In addition, you can now select whether the Day of Prayer and Repentance is to be marked as a public holiday or not.
27078A problem with the leaving date for locked accounts during LDAP import has been resolved.