OmniPlan 2.0
What's new in OmniPlan 2: No Pain, All Gain
OmniPlan 2 is the same painless project management you've come to expect with loads of new features—including over-the-air collaboration.
Collaboration: Sync, Publish, Edit, and Track Changes
Use a WebDAV server to sync your projects between resources. Then, publish your tasks automatically upon saving. Grab new changes via Bonjour or at a specified interval. (You can also publish and update manually, of course.) Publish tasks and pull in updates from a server-based calendar. Export your plan automatically in any supported format. Execute custom AppleScripts from within the app.
Use Apple's Calendar Server to pull in free times and busy times for your resources. Import vacation and holiday schedules from a web-hosted calendar. Configure to check for updates periodically or via Bonjour.
Keep track of the changes to the project with visual change tracking. See your own edits on a personal project or see the synced changes on a team project. Accept and reject changes on a task-by-task basis or all at once.
Scheduling
Fiscal years are now supported in addition to calendar years so you can choose whether your tasks are due in Q2 or Spring. Schedule projects backwards from a fixed end date. Create, save, and compare your projects against multiple baselines. Highlight the critical path to individual milestones in the new Project: Milestones inspector. Resource schedules now have a start and/or end date.
Tasks and Resources
Split your tasks to schedule around interruptions. Create hammock tasks that have start and end dates based on prerequisites that you define. Effort and Duration can now be unlinked. Default task and resource attributes can be configured per project or in a template for faster task creation. Color-code tasks based on their resource. Choose independent display formats for duration and effort values.
Filtering
Save multiple, commonly-used filters for quick re-use later. Configure publishing actions to use filters.
Printing Options
Headers and footers are now more flexible. Expand or collapse all notes and task and resource groups. Page margins support mirroring on facing pages. Customize the margin above and below the header and footer.
Set Up Sync
To set up sync, select Configure Publishing & Subscriptions from the Project menu. From there, can click the plus button to add a sync type and then choose how you would like to sync your project. To sync your entire project, choose entire plan with the OmniPlan server repository. From here, you can create an account by selecting New Account from the drop down menu, followed by the Account Info button and entering the type of server along with your credentials.
OmniPlan 2.0.1 beta - September 7, 2011
- Milestone completeness is now changetracked and published.
- Filtering for “Assigned is not Resource 1” used to mean “any task with an assignment to any resource besides Resource 1”. What people really want is any task not assigned to Resource 1, so that's what it means now.
- Exporting images with the “Include notes: expanded” option caused groups that didn't actually have any note to clip the following row. This has been fixed.
- Implemented a possible fix for an crash following import of Microsoft Project files.
- In HTML Full Reports, the link to the Project Milestones .ics file is now reliable in Safari
- Schedule exceptions now inherit from parent resource schedules. This has always been the intent and reflected in the UI, but assigned task scheduling did not handle the case properly.
- Multiple fixes and improvements to on-line help.
OmniPlan 2.0.1 beta - August 31, 2011
- QuickLook previews are no longer written for autosaves, improving performance and preventing improperly timestamped changelog entries.
- On Lion, OmniPlan now uses the built-in facility for restoring open windows when the app is launched.
- When launched or when the app icon is clicked, OmniPlan will now always present a document window, creating a new one if necessary.
- The preferences to “Open projects which were open last time you quit” and “Create a new document if nothing else is open” have been removed. Both behaviors are now standard to Mac OS X and are always on.
- Added support for localization, currently in progress.
OmniPlan 2.0.1 beta - August 23, 2011
- Removed the new “Compact” plan template in favor of making the default attributes a compromise between the two templates. This is a better experience until UI for configurability can be developed.
OmniPlan 2.0.1 beta - August 22, 2011
- Improved stability.
- Dragging a named style onto an active field editor in the Task title column of the outline view no longer crashes.
- When the save panel is open, File menu items such as “Save As…” (which would cause a crash) are now disabled.
- Spelling autocorrection is severely unstable in OmniPlan and has been temporarily disabled.
- Publish & Subscribe
- HTTP redirects are now correctly handled.
- Syncing tasks to/from iCal events with a resource filter now syncs the expected tasks and handles them being deleted in iCal by restoring them.
- Loading saved filters into the publish action configuration was invisibly corrupting the search criteria, resulting in an incorrect set of tasks being published. This has been fixed.
- The PM is now empowered to check a task “complete” on the Calendar Server account configured for a “Sync tasks with Calendar Server to-do” action, even if that account doesn't correspond to a resource assigned to the task.
- Recurring events in subscribed calendars are now supported.
- A new “Compact” plan template is included in this release, slightly reducing font sizes and the space between rows.
- Loading performance for projects with baselines has been improved.
- Imported OmniPlan 1.x files now enable task numbering by default.
- Lion added a feature to restore open documents on launch. This feature combined with our own code to do the same sometimes resulted in documents opening in two windows. This should no longer occur.
- The table view of columns in View Options no longer allows row selection with the accompanying weird rendering.
- The “Focus” feature now works when the outline view is in “Flat Numbering” mode. WBS filters now filter on heirarchical number regardless of displayed numbering node.
- Resources with custom styles load properly and their assigned tasks can be copy/pasted without error.
- Fixed an error loading files with assigned resource filters.
- Fixed a math error in the “Extra & Off Hours” calendar that sometimes resulted in mouse clicks selecting the wrong week if your week does not start on Sunday.
- When tasks are copied from the Task view, dates will be put on the pasteboard for any enabled date columns and should be suitable for pasting into other applications such as Excel.
- Mouse manipulation of time blocks in work schedules now has resolution down to 5 minute increments.
- When enumerating assignments, HTML reports will report the amount of effort the resource will put into the assignment, rather than the total task effort. If the resource is not 100% efficient this will not equal the amount of effort they will contribute to task completion.
- Inspectors — Tabbing between inspector fields works once again.
- AppleScript — “set title” of the project entity now works.
- The controls on the “Customize Toolbar” sheet for setting the toolbar display mode and size now work.
- The resource allocation graph, if enabled, now draws correctly on printouts and image exports.
- Baseline Gantt bars now render behind Actual bars on printouts and images, where they are not rendered transparently.
- Improved date handling during import of all supported Microsoft Project files. Warnings that “The end date must come after the start date” are now likely legitimate problems.