Publishing, Subscribing, and Change Tracking

Publishing and subcribing can be used to keep a project up-to-date between members of a team. Choose Configure Publishing & Subscriptions from the Project menu.

Click the Plus button below the Publish & Update Actions list to add an action. These changes can be published upon save and updated via Bonjour (or at a specified interval). If you'd rather update manually, you can choose to publish whenever the document is saved or leave both options unchecked and use the Project ▸ Update and Project ▸ Publish menu items.

If you have resources used by multiple projects hosted on the same server repository, you can choose to share information between them to avoid resource conflicts and overloads. Choosing Publish resource loads will broadcast the resource usage of the current project to all other projects that have chosen to Subscribe to other projects' resources. Choosing both means the current project will both give and receive load information. When a project is leveled, resources will be reallocated to reflect their usage in other projects.

Resources are recognized by OmniPlan as identical across multiple projects on a server when they share the same unique email address.

Note that making changes to the Apple system clock while using Publish or Subscribe will result in an error, and should be avoided.

General actions:

Execute a custom AppleScript upon publish or update.

Export your document with one of the export options.

Use Subscribe actions to pull in changes from others. Be sure to set up sync accounts in OmniPlan ▸ Preferences ▸ Accounts, where you can set up and configure from among CalDAV, Google, Omni Sync Server, and WebDAV account syncing options to suit the needs of your project and team.

Note that due to limitations in Calendar sync, OmniPlan is able to fetch data out approximately 11 months from the present when subscribing to free/busy times from a Calendar server.

Choose free/busy times from the calendar server to see available resource times and be notified of changes for particular resources or all of them.

Choose offtime/overtime from iCal calendar to choose a calendar for the whole project or an individual resource. Specify whether events are extra or off hours.

Choose offtime/overtime from web calendar and specify a URL, along with the schedule for a project or particular resource, and how events behave.

Use Sync to make changes to the project and pull in changes from others.

Choose entire plan with OmniPlan server repository to sync all tasks, resources, and calendars—everything!—on a shared server.

Choose to sync tasks to/from calendar server events to make changes and bring in changes from events on a calendar server.

Choose to sync tasks to/from calendar server to-do items to make changes and bring in changes from to-do items on a calendar server.

Choose to sync tasks to/from iCal events to make changes and bring in changes from events in iCal.

Once you've specified the kind or kinds of subscribing you'd like to do, you can use Change Tracking to see your changes and accept or reject the changes of others.

To enable change tracking, use the Project ▸ Track Changes menu item. A sidebar appears that logs the changes you make and shows the changes of your teammates.

To accept or reject all changes, use the Accept All and Reject All buttons.

To accept or reject individual changes, use the Accept or Reject buttons on the individual changes in the list.