New features and fixes to Milestones Project Companion 2008

• In the Copy All Pages to PowerPoint feature, there was a problem that when slides added to the current presentation, slides were added incorrectly. Problem has been corrected.
• In the Microsoft Project Refresh feature there is a new enhancement: It is now possible to select a Microsoft Project Text field and have the text field populate the Milestones constraint field. This can be selected on the refresh options dialog box. Documentation for this feature can be found by selecting Microsoft Office Project Importing on the Help menu.
• In the Automation interface, the LoadFile method now supports loading Milestones schema XML files.
• In XML import/export feature for Milestones schema XML files, more attributes concerning taskline format overrides are now saved/retreived from the XML file.
• On the format menu on the Enhanced Toolbar, there is now a menu next to the Shadows/Highlights button that enables you to selectively remove all symbol highlighting or all shadows.
• A new horizontal connector was added. This new connector is a Null connector, i.e. it is always invisible. It will appear only if View | Highlight Invisible Symbols is checked. This connector, when paired with the Null symbol, Symbol 28, can be used to temporarily hide tasks from view. It could be useful in a "declutter" template which could be used to hide some less important task bars temporarily without having to delete them.
• A correction was made to the display position of symbol text set to display below the symbol at an angle of 120, 135, or 150 degrees.

• A new Create Vertical Link section has been added to the Symbol Selection menu under the Vertical Links tab. This is a third way to insert vertical links which was done to make it easier to insert links on dense schedules with overlapping or hard to select symbols. This option lets you select the parent and target symbols using any combination of mouse or keyboard. The currently selected Vertical Connector from the Toolbox is used to insert the connection when the Connect Now button is pressed.

• When importing from Microsoft Office Project, it is now possible to tag symbols with WBS number. It is also possible to refresh with the WBS number.
• In the Microsoft Office Project interface, the performance for refresh using non-UniqueID (text field or WBS) has been significantly improved.

• In the Microsoft Project Interface, a slowness issue with Milestones Refresh was corrected.

• Milestones Project Interface, Added abbreviations for symbol automation fields, to be used for Milestones Project Refresh:

• Fixed background color issue with Milestones Project Interface Dynamic Rollup coded summary import format.

• Fixed an issue with the Milestones Project Interface Coded Summary - Coded Symbols.

• In Milestones Project Interface, Milestones Refresh, added an option to Create Report when refreshing a Milestones schedule from Microsoft Project. The report is placed both on the clipboard and in the user's My Documents folder. The name of the report is milesrefreshfile.txt.

• In Milestones Project Interface, Milestones Refresh, added an option Ignore Times When Refreshing

• An option to enable extra highlighting of the currently selected menu tab when using the Enhanced Toolbar is now available under Tools | Program Options | General. This option is most useful if you are using the enhanced toolbar on the side or are not using gradient fills on the toolbar.

• Any user defined menus are now also displayed in the Enhanced Toolbar rendition of the Help menu.
• In the Microsoft Project Interface, Finish Dates plus Status Milestones template in Microsoft Project template is now refreshable.

• In the Microsoft Project Interface, Refresh option, in list of drop down text fields, Text 22 field was listed as "Test 22". This typo has been corrected.
• In the Microsoft Project Interface the Project Interface help file has been updated.
• In the Microsoft Project Interface extra cr/lf at end of tags are removed.
• When cell text is edited, either in the Enhanced Toolbar, or in the Column Text and Task Row Properties dialog, the situation where numerical values are backspced out in Values columns is now better handled.

• In the Microsoft Project Interface, updated Baseline Plus Actual with Status template. Updated accompanying code to yield more aesthetically pleasing results.

• In the Microsoft Project Interface, fixed ?? on refresh error occurring when using text field to update.
• In the Microsoft Project Interface, added option to highlight refreshed dates. Also added option to toggle highlight off/on (on connections tab).
• In the Microsoft Project Interface, added option to reset dates range to refresh option (previously, no choice. Date range was set).
• Fixed another problem in copy all pages to PowerPoint feature.

• In the Microsoft Project Interface, added option to reset dates (or not).
• Fixed problem to copy all pages to Powerpoint.
• Added current symbol color to status bar display for selected symbol.

• In the Microsoft Project Interface, fixed Earned Value - SPI Percentage Bar option.
• Added an option to SPI Percentage Bar option to use a Date field for status.
• In the Microsoft Project Refresh - option for using Text field was not working in all cases.
• Corrected several standard templates, including earned value templates.

• Added an Increase/Decrease size by percent control to Enhanced Graphic Toolbar.

• Corrects issue with in the Coded Summary/Coded Symbols MS Project import format.
• Corrects issue that sometimes would cause an unwanted white rectangle near angled freeform text.
• Corrects issue that sometimes would cause the wrong file to be specified for an MS Project Refresh.

• Corrects issue with some summary line and other computed values not displaying properly in text placed on clipboard when using the Copy Schedule to Clipboard option.

• Adds baseline dates to the export to project option in the MS Project Interface.
• Corrects an error 13 in the MS Project Interface on non-English systems.

• Corrections to several of the earned value and dashboard templates in the MS Project Interface.

• Correction to error encountered in MS Project Interface concerning Earned Value data import.

• Cost Account Plan template updated to use time-scaled BCWP and BCWS from MS Project.
• Correction to error encountered in MS Project Interface when empty tasks are encountered.

• Correction to error that prevented some import choices from being available.