Version 3.5 - August 4, 2016
OmniPlan 3.5 introduces Brazilian Portuguese and Korean localization support. This update also addresses performance issues and fixes a few crashes.
- Localizations — Added support for Brazilian Portuguese and Korean. If you notice issues in either of these newly supported languages, please let us know!
- Performance — Addressed performance issues on macOS 10.12 Sierra. If you are running OmniPlan 3.5 on a beta version of macOS 10.12 and encounter poor performance or bugs, please send a bug report to our Support team. (And please be sure to let the Support folks know that you’re running a beta OS!)
- Stability — Fixed a bug that could trigger a crash when waking from sleep.
- Stability — Double-clicking the (x) button in the Task Assignments Inspector no longer causes OmniPlan to crash.
Version 3.4.1 - June 1, 2016
OmniPlan 3.4.1 is a minor update that addresses a printing regression and a crash.
- Printing — Date headers are once again included when printing the Gantt Chart.
- Stability — Opening the Display Preferences on a Mac running OS X 10.10 no longer triggers a crash.
Version 3.4 - May 24, 2016
OmniPlan 3.4 introduces paste support in the Network View, adds support for in-app announcements, and fixes numerous import/export, localization, and printing bugs.
This update removes import/export support for .mpx files. The .mpx file format is not supported by modern versions of Microsoft Project (saving as .mpx was discontinued in Microsoft Project 2000, the ability to read .mpx files was discontinued in Microsoft Project 2013) and we are not aware of any use cases in which .mpx is the best option for moving data in or out of OmniPlan.
- Announcements — In-app announcement feature to display notifications from The Omni Group. This feature will only be used to inform users of important information: when a new major version has been released, for example, or if action is required to prevent data loss.
- Network View — Paste is now supported in the Network View. If there is a selection in the Network diagram, pasted tasks will become children of the selected group and/or as dependents of the selected tasks. If there is no selection in the Network diagram, the new tasks will be independent of the existing tasks.
- Gantt — Date header divider lines are now drawn correctly when the Gantt is resized.
- Filtering — Addressed a bug that could cause new filters to not be saved if no other changes were made in the document.
- Leveling — Leveling delays can once again be removed by clicking the x button in the Task Schedule Inspector.
- Printing — Alternate row colors no longer disappear from print preview panel after changing scale.
- Printing — Print preview panel now updates when task groups are expanded or collapsed in the Gantt.
- Printing — Print preview panel now displays header/footer images. (Note, if you’re having trouble with this functionality, make sure your margins are big enough!)
- Printing — Page Setup now remembers printer selection changes.
- Printing — It is no longer necessary to export a file in order to change the page scale.
- Microsoft Project — Values are now provided for the “% Complete” column when exporting to Microsoft Project.
- Microsoft Project — Addressed a bug that caused exporting a project with no resources to trigger an error message.
- Microsoft Project — Addressed miscellaneous bugs that could cause Microsoft Project import or export to fail.
- Import/Export — Removed support for importing or exporting deprecated .mpx file format.
- Import/Export — Removed support for importing .ooutline files created by OmniOutliner 2.
- Import/Export — Corrected typos in export error logs.
- Copy/Paste — “Copy as Link” now functions as expected in both Gantt and Network View.
- Localization — Display Preferences are localized once again.
- Localization — Dependency information is now localized in Chinese & Japanese.
- Localization — The letter T is now recognized as a shortcut for day in the German localization.
- Localization — Addressed an issue that could cause Resource Type buttons to be cutoff in the Resource Inspector in some localizations.
- Stability — Fixed a handful of crashes.
Version 3.3.3 - April 19, 2016
OmniPlan 3.3.3 is a minor update that addresses two regressions.
- Scheduling — Addressed a bug that could cause resource exceptions to be ignored when the project or resource group also has a schedule exception.
- Publishing and Subscriptions — If an “Update Canceled” error message is presented, the error message now includes an “OK” button.
Version 3.3.2 - April 14, 2016
OmniPlan 3.3.2 is a minor update that addresses miscellaneous bugs and stability issues.
- Gantt — Gantt headers now update correctly when switching to monthly scaling.
- Network View — Addressed an issue creating nested groups in Task View that could result in incorrectly drawn group task nodes in Network View.
- Network View — Collapsing or expanding a task group node no longer affects other task group nodes.
- Network View — View option buttons now respond to keyboard input.
- Styles — When a task is 0 duration and effort, OmniPlan no longer automatically styles the task as 100% complete.
- Resources — Units and assignment options now refresh appropriately when changing resource type.
- Resources — Using arrow keys in the material resource units field no longer changes the units to percentages.
- Resource Load — Resource Load Graphs now update right away when task completion is changed.
- Violations — Splitting a task no longer results in -2 violations.
- Filtering — Date filters are now smarter when “time of day” is disabled in the Project Info Inspector.
- Filtering — Filters are now respected when exporting an HTML report.
- Publishing and Subscriptions — When an error is encountered while publishing, the option to cancel publishing is now presented as well as the option to continue publishing.
- Microsoft Project — Addressed an issue that could cause projects with multiple schedule exceptions on the same workday to fail to export.
- Localization — Blue “Imported Document” bar is now localized.
- Localization — Semaines is now recognized as a shortcut for week in the French localization.
- Localization — The letter j is now recognized as a shortcut for day in the French localization.
- Contact Omni — Addressed an issue that could cause the anonymized file to fail to attach to a new email when using Help > Contact Omni.
- Stability — Fixed a crash on export caused by filter start date constraints.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a Dashboard.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when changing filtering preferences in a Dashboard.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when the Update button is added to the toolbar.
Version 3.3.1 - March 8, 2016
OmniPlan 3.3.1 is a minor update that addresses an issue exporting HTML reports.
- HTML Export — HTML reports now export from the Reports window properly.
Version 3.3 - March 10, 2016
OmniPlan 3.3 introduces an enhanced Microsoft Project import tool which includes support for importing Microsoft Project 2016 project files as well as numerous other import/export improvements. This update also includes a wide range of bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Microsoft Project — OmniPlan now supports importing Microsoft Project 2016 files!
- Microsoft Project — Addressed various Microsoft Project import/export issues.
- Microsoft Project — Microsoft Project files now import correctly when OmniPlan is running in German.
- Import — The Standard version of OmniPlan successfully imports OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle files again.
- Dashboard — Saving a file opened from Dashboard no longer results in an error message.
- Network View — Deleting a group task node in the Network View no longer leaves ghost task nodes behind.
- Network View — View Option changes are now saved when navigating away from Network View.
- Network View — Limited the list of available View Option values to values that display reasonably in the Network View. (If you’d like to be able to display additional values in Network View, please let us know!)
- Network View — Rapidly adding new tasks in the Network diagram no longer creates tasks at different dependency levels.
- Network View — Addressed a bug that could cause connection lines to need to be redrawn.
- Gantt View — Addressed an issue that could cause milestones to be draw slightly to the left of a date line.
- Resource View — Addressed a bug that could cause Resource View not to refresh properly.
- Reports — Headers in Bright Template now export to PDF correctly.
- Zoom — Zooming in via keyboard shortcut now zooms in to your current selection. If nothing is selected, zoom centers on current view.
- Window Position — New document windows now open in correct location.
- Dates — Fiscal years setting in Date Preferences is now remembered on relaunch.
- OmniPresence Sync — Opening a project synced from OmniPlan for iOS via OmniPresence no longer switches the iOS project theme from Light to Dark.
- Localization — All instances of “duration” are now translated properly in the French localization.
- Pro Upgrade — Toolbar buttons and menu bar items now update properly after Pro upgrade is purchased.
- Stability — Closing an empty dashboard no longer causes a crash.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when reverting changes or reverting to a saved version of a file.
- Stability — Control-return in task outline no longer causes a crash.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a file containing a dependency loop.
- Stability — Addressed a crash that could occur when selecting “Revert to Save” on a previously saved file in full-screen mode.
Version 3.2.1 - December 9, 2015
OmniPlan 3.2.1 is a minor update addressing issues related to date parsing, task scheduling, project scaling, and stability issues when opening a project in full-screen mode or refreshing the multi-project Dashboard
- Date Parsing — Entering duration or effort as “1 S” in French now results in 1 week instead of 1 second.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a project in full-screen mode.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when reloading the Dashboard.
- Zoom — Addressed buggy zoom behavior when using “Scale to Fit Selection.”
- Scheduling — Addressed an issue calculating task completion when reloading a project.
- Scheduling — Addressed an issue calculating total cost for individual resources within an assigned resource group after leveling.
- Scheduling — When a task is set to “Adjust Effort” and effort is manually changed, duration is now updated properly.
Recent Changes
Version 3.2 - November 18, 2015
OmniPlan 3.2 adds Dashboard printing, zoom shortcuts, and OmniPresence documentation (as well as fixes for some performance and stability issues).
- Dashboard Printing (Pro) — Multi-project dashboards can now be printed, both to physical printers and to PDF files.
- Zoom Shortcuts — Added keyboard shortcuts for the existing Scale to Fit Project and Scale to Fit Selection menu items. Also added new Zoom In and Zoom Out menu items with their own keyboard shortcuts. (It’s also still possible to drag the dividers between time periods in the Gantt’s header to change the scale.)
- OmniPresence Documentation — Added documentation explaining how to use OmniPresence to sync documents between Mac and iOS devices.
- Project Overview — Fixed an issue where the overview bar would not update if you navigated around the project by clicking a task chevron.
- Dashboards — Fixed a bug where Dashboards always opened in Gantt comparison view, even if the bar chart view was last selected.
- Inspectors — Fixed a bug scrollbars would overlap the inspector on launch.
- Inspectors — Fixed an issue where a soft return could cause an inspector’s text field to be cut off.
- Inspectors — Inspector field should now populate with details for the selected item when showing the Inspector sidebar.
- Inspectors — Fixed a bug where the start date of a task couldn’t be locked via the inspector.
- Contextual Menu — Fixed a bug where the “Add Group” item in the contextual menu would add a milestone instead of a group.
- Task Assignments — Fixed an issue where tasks set to “Adjust Task Effort” would display incorrect effort when opening a project with resource assignments other than 100%.
- Performance — Improved the performance of changes to some project schedules.
- Localizations — Fixed a bug where “Zoom In” and “Zoom Out” were not localized in the view menu.
- Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when reverting to saved while closing a window when “Ask to keep changes when closing documents” was enabled in System Preferences.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when OmniPlan tries to layout the timeline multiple times after adding a new task.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur while trying to use the “Contact Omni” menu item when a Dashboard was the most forefront window.
- Stability — Fixed a hang when editing a resource’s Cost per Hour value when that resource had a 0% assignment to a task.
- Stability — Fixed a hang that could occur when rescheduling tasks.
- Stability — Fixed a hang when using the Scale to Fit Project feature in the Gantt Chart.
- Stray Log Message — Fixed a stray console log message about not finding an image named OAInfoTemplate.
Version 3.1.2 - November 4, 2015
OmniPlan 3.1.2 fixes a scheduling bug in hammock tasks which was introduced in today’s 3.1.1 update.
Version 3.1.1 - November 4, 2015
OmniPlan 3.1.1 is a minor update which improves localizations and fixes some stability issues and other bugs. (OmniPlan 3.1 added support for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.)
- "None” Filter — You can now add a filter which requires that “none of the following are true,” in addition to the “any” or “all” options.
- URL support — You can now use an omniplan:///change-preference?key=value URL to change a hidden preference (such as your language setting).
- Task Dependencies — Fixed a bug introduced in version 3.1 which caused some task prerequisites to be ignored during scheduling.
- Document Refresh — Documents can now refresh in place multiple times when their underlying content changes, without closing and reopening all their windows. This improves the behavior of syncing through OmniPresence and iCloud Drive, as well as the behavior of restoring an older version of a document using Time Machine or one of the options in File > Revert To.
- Prototype Tasks — Prototype tasks now remember resource assignments across file loads.
- Date Headers in Reports — Fixed a bug where a report’s date headers would sometimes have extra copies of fragments of nearby headers.
- Network View — Printing a network view will no longer invert its headers and footers, and those headers and footers will now print the correct page number on each page.
- Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when unnecessarily updating some off-screen views during save.
Version 3.1 - October 26, 2015
OmniPlan 3.1 adds support for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. It also fixes some stability issues and other bugs.
- Localizations — We’ve added support for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. If you notice issues in any of these newly supported languages, please let us know!
- Inspectors — Inspectors now remember whether you last had them open or closed.
- Toolbar Buttons — Updated the Graphite variant of our toolbar buttons to match our default toolbar buttons.
- Dashboard Colors — Custom project colors are now restored when opening a dashboard.
- Task View — Fixed a drawing bug which could cause squished-looking headers at the top of the Gantt chart.
- Resource View — Fixed an issue where the resource load graph could draw bar graphs with incorrect heights in the Resource View.
- Resource Assignments — Fixed an issue where “Adjust Assigned Amounts” could overload a resource with too much work.
- Free Slack Calculation — Fixed computation of free slack for start-to-start dependencies on group tasks.
- AppleScript — Creating a task or resource from AppleScript will now assign a name to the newly created item, rather than leaving its name undefined (which could potentially lead to a crash).
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when saving and closing an OmniPlan document after leveling, our most common crash.
- Stability — Fixed a crash involving 10 or more named styles in the Styles View.
- Stability — Exporting an OmniGraffle document should no longer crash.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that would occur when exporting a Gantt Only PDF.
- Stability — Fixed a crash using the Applescript publishing action.
- Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when saving a duplicate copy of an open document.
- Stability — Fixed a crash sometimes encountered when loading a document.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when printing a large network view.
- Console Errors — Fixed some code which could trigger “Invalid context” messages on the console when exporting an image of an outline view during a save operation.
Version 3.0.2 - October 9, 2015
- Launch Crash — Fixed a crash sometimes encountered when launching the app.
Version 3.0.1 - October 8, 2015
- Keyboard Shortcut — Added a keyboard shortcut for View > Enter Full Screen.
- AppleScript (PRO) — Fixed an issue which could cause AppleScript to return “invalid key form” errors when referencing items via the document id specifier.
Version 3.0 - October 7, 2015
- Standard And Pro — OmniPlan Standard provides the core functionality that most users need to plan a project. OmniPlan Pro takes your project to the next level with collaboration, forecasting, and reporting features.
- User Interface — Out with the old, in with the new! The Gantt chart and resource timeline now sport a flat, modern design, and the inspectors live in their new home in the sidebar.
- Network View — An elegant and easy way to rapidly prototype and visualize your project’s flow as a network diagram of nodes connected by dependencies.
- Multi-Project Dashboard (PRO) — See everything at once! Assemble a beautiful dashboard to review your projects at a glance, and see how busy or idle every team member is across all of them.
- Earned Value Analysis (PRO) — Time is money! Measure a project’s progress at any given point in the schedule and forecast its completion date and final cost, without having to remember all of those EVA formulas.
- Meeting Task Type — A new resource allocation option that allows you to specify if multiple resources need to work on a task independently or simultaneously.
- Auto-Effort Estimation (PRO) — Think some tasks might take longer or finish earlier than expected? Let OmniPlan assign your best and worst estimates to account for every scenario.
- Monte Carlo Simulation (PRO) — Run multiple simulations in seconds to forecast milestone completion dates with varying levels of confidence.
- Off-Day Styling — Want to see every single off-hour time period, just the weekends, or just the holidays on your Gantt chart? You can now show or hide them all!
- Reports (PRO) — Generate project reports with a single click! We’ve created gorgeous, customizable HTML templates that are dressed to impress at your next status meeting.
- Unlinked Duration and Effort — Set different values for a task’s effort and duration, then let OmniPlan crunch the numbers for your resource assignment percentage.
- Display Task Hierarchy — Have a lot of repetitive tasks with the same name? Differentiate them by showing the full hierarchical path of a task and its parent group in the task outline and Gantt chart.