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New features and fixes to Milestones Professional 2004

Is your copy of Milestones Professional 2004 up-to-date?
Check under Help | About Milestones | System Info for a Rev. date.
Download this Update if your Rev date is older than the current revision date of 4/25/2006.
 
List of new features and fixes:
The most recent new features and fixes are at the top of the list.
 
December 5, 2005
  • Corrected a Summary Bar percent complete display problem.
December 5, 2005
  • Problems with importing MS Project Note fields longer than 498 characters into a Milestones column have been resolved. Rather than producing an error message, Milestones will simply truncate any cell text to the maximum it can handle, which is 498 characters, and continue the import.
November 17, 2005
  • Problems with saving Milestones schedules as an XML file have been corrected. Text1-Text30 fields were being left out. Some invalid characters were being passed on to the XML File. Some fields were too long for MS Project.
September 13, 2005
  • A problem with the Internet Publishing, Tiered Hierarchy option sometimes looping has been corrected.
August 11, 2005
  • A problem with AutoFilters being ignored during MS Project import has been corrected.
July 19, 2005
  • New Automation method added: SortTasksBySymbolDate
    It has 1 argument. If the argument is 1, then sort is done by start date. If the argument is 2, then the sort is done by end date. The sort is always in ascending order and the charts outline level structure is maintained.
  • New Automation method added: SetTaskLineVisibility
    It has 2 arguments. The first argument is the task line to set. The second argument is 0 or 1 (0 for invisible, 1 for visible).
June 30, 2005
  • Problem with Symbol text sometimes being blanked out on an MS Project Refresh has been corrected.
June 28, 2005
  • Problem with Missing Symbol text on the MS Project Space-Saver import option has been corrected.
June 8, 2005
  • Problem with Custom MS Project Import templates has been corrected.
  • Problem with importing filtered MS Project files with more than 32,000 non-filtered tasks has been corrected.
May, 2005
  • Problem with Symbol Notes used as column text has been corrected.
  • Problem with imported MS project file names being limited to 140 characters has been corrected.
  • Problem with symbols used by imported MS Project Resource charts has been corrected.
April, 2005
  • Problem with connected symbols changing vertical position unexpectedly after a symbol text edit has been done.
January, 2005
  • Problem with symbols set to display individually on summary lines not shifting position sometimes when the date range changes has been corrected.
  • In the MS Project Import Wizard, the ability to import only flagged tasks was added to the Summary | Compact format.
December, 2004
  • If Tooltips are showing for the entire screen and Expanded Hover is selected, then the Automation Tag is included in the hover display.
  • In the MS Project interface: Additional coding has been put in to handle cases where manual editing of automation tags might cause errors in Milestones refresh.
  • In the MS Project interface: Fixes overflow error reported on refresh of large consolidated schedules.
November, 2004
  • Added the "Constraint" property to SetSymbolProperty.
    Example: .SetSymbolProperty 1, 1, "Constraint", "7/18/1997", 2
    For the "Constraint" property, Arg 4 is the Constraint date, Arg 5 is the Constraint type 0-6 (0=none,
    1=must be on this date, 2=no later than, 3=no earlier than, 4=lock to this date, 5=reminder, 6=action).
  • For the MS Project Interface, the following changes were made:

    -added Escape key to refresh so user can cancel refresh on bigger schedules.
    -added "non-refreshable" tag to dynamic roll-up to prevent problems with refresh and force users to re-import for this format choice.
    -fixed error in step-by-step, refresh of symbol text, not refreshing consistently.
  • Corrected problem with task line hyperlink icons not being selectable when schedule not in fit-in-window view.
  • Corrects a refresh issue in the Microsoft Project Summary – Presentation Timeline import format. Also, adds an option to this format to be able to keep the symbol text at a consistent position, instead of automatically adjusting it for over-crowding.
October, 2004
  • Fixed problem with outline level selection being unavailable for some Summary formats in MS Project Interface.
  • Fixes some background color settings for PowerPoint interface.
September, 2004
  • A new property has made available through the GetSymbolProperty automation call: "Color". This will return a number from 1 to 19, which represents the current color index of the assigned symbol fill color. Note that the actual symbol may be drawn in a different color if Format | Dates | Symbol Fill to Status Date is active and the symbol is after the status date.
  • A new Edit menu, Copy All Pages to PowerPoint has been added. This menu enables users of PowerPoint 2000 and above to trigger an automatic copy of all pages in a Milestones schedule to PowerPoint.
  • Two new reports under Tools | Reports have been added. One report shows a list of all symbols with automation tags. The other report shows which symbols have notes, tags, hyperlinks, etc.
  • Fixes a problem in MS Project Import which sometimes would cause colors in the selected Color Theme to be overridden.
  • Fixes a Microsoft Project refresh problem, for charts which were not created originally using Milestones Professional's MS Project Wizard.
  • Fixes a problem with incorrect "tagging" in Dynamic roll-up summary choice. This incorrect tagging was later affecting the refresh feature.
  • Enhancements made to legend for dynamic roll-up summary choice.
  • OLE Automation help file was updated to correct documentation and to include documentation on new methods.
August, 2004
  • Problem which prevented yearly curtains from being defined has been corrected.
  • In the MS Project Import Wizard, fixes a problem with Windows 2000/Project 2000 environment, Dynamic Roll-up option was operating incorrectly.
  • In the MS Project Import Wizard, a new option, Dynamic Roll-up, has been added to the Summary Chart import choices.
  • In Tools | Sort | By Date, when maintaining outline structure, it is possible to specify the level to which to sort.
  • Corrected problem with thumbnail viewer DLL that prevented Windows Explorer Thumbnail View from showing ML8 thumbnails on some computers.
July, 2004
  • Added new Automation method: SortTasksByColumn
    arg 1 = type (1=ascending, 0=descending)
    arg 2 = first sort column (0=ignore, else 1-20=column to use as key)
    arg 3 = first column data type (0=text, 1=numeric, 2=currency, 3=date)
    arg 4 = second sort column (0=ignore, else 1-20=column to use as key)
    arg 5 = second column data type (0=text, 1=numeric, 2=currency, 3=date)
    arg 6 = third sort column (0=ignore, else 1-20=column to use as key)
    arg 7 = third column data type (0=text, 1=numeric, 2=currency, 3=date).
  • Improved handling of files created on a computer that uses a comma for a decimal point when the file is opened on a computer that uses a period for a decimal point.
  • Added new Automation method: SetTaskLinePageBreak. This method creates or removes a page break. There are two mandatory arguments. The first argument is the task line before which the page break should be altered. The second argument is either 1 (create a break) or 0 (remove a break).
  • More space added in Page Layout dialog for entry of column and margin values.
  • Added new automation method: UpdateGlobalValueSets, to cause all computed ValueSets to be updated so that their current values can be obtained via automation calls.
  • Added CTRL+T symbol drag option for moving symbol text to another location with a link back to the original symbol. Useful for moving symbol text around to avoid collisions in dense schedules.
  • Added Alt+Arrow Key functionality when individual symbols are selected to make it easy to move symbol text around a symbol. To use, select a symbol using the arrow tool from the Toolbox, then hold down the Alt key and press the up, down, left, or right keyboard arrow keys to move the symbol text. Likewise, Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Key moves the symbol date. (Note that Ctrl+Alt+Down and Ctrl+Alt+Up is used by some video drivers to flip the screen, so you may need to deactivate this feature in your video driver if you wish to use the shortcut in Milestones).
  • Fixed Taskline Copy/Paste bug that would sometimes cause a crash when task lines were copied and pasted.
  • Added Cut/Copy/Paste Cell Text menu to task line right-click menu to make copying and pasting text from individual cells easier.
June, 2004
  • Controls for suppressing background color added to the Printing Options dialog.
  • A Hide Legend right-click menu has been added to the list of menus that appear when you right-click in the Legend area.
  • Symbol 31 in symbol selection box updated to not be a duplicate of symbol 30.
  • File | Update | Milestones/Project Refresh has been improved. It will refresh additional fields, including all symbols coded with start fields, finish fields and all baseline start and finish fields.
  • Improvements were made to the font selection used in dialog boxes to prevent dialog spacing problems on some computers.
  • Improvements were made to the filling that is done when an Indicator symbol causes a cell to be filled.
May, 2004
  • When Folder Display Lockdown enabled: Output filenames in the Internet Publishing Wizard are now suppressed.
  • When Folder Display Lockdown enabled: Filenames in Help | About | System Info dialog are now hidden to prevent display of file path of current files and executable.
  • When Folder Display Lockdown enabled: Filenames in file open and save error messages is now hidden to prevent display of file path.
  • When Printer Dialog Lockdown enabled: Printer Setup button on Toolbar now ignored to prevent non-allowed display of Printer Setup dialog.
  • When Folder Display Lockdown enabled: When selecting Save-As after a sample is opened, the current folder properly reverts to the default charts folder.
  • MS Project Interface: EV | Current/Expected Costs chart, % complete column fixed to accurately display MS Project % complete values.
  • MS Project Interface: Y-axis values on several Earned Value formats fixed.
  • MS Project Interface: Custom chart issue with Milestone chart, step-by-step, resolved.
  • A problem which caused import of MS Project MPP files on some computers to take longer than expected was corrected.
  • An error in the Help | About | System Info dialog box that would cause a crash when accessed with no file open has been corrected.
April, 2004
  • Milestones now respects the ScrollLock keyboard key. When this key is toggled active, the keyboard arrow keys can be used for scrolling.
  • The setting to wrap text in the Column Text and Task Line Properties dialog box is now on by default. The setting is also remembered for each file.
  • Problem with missing sample folders when File | Samples is selected when no chart is open has been corrected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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