Planzone gets a whole bunch of new features!

Our Planzone Development team is proud to announce the release of a new Planzone version. As usually we tried to integrate your feedback and hope that you will enjoy our new features! If you have any questions or need support, please visit our Planzone Knowledge Center or use the Planzone Forum!

> Time Tracking... next monday in the Knowledge Center

* My Timesheet: A team member can enter time spent per activity and per day, and re-estimate remaining work
* Project Timesheet: The Project Manager can view all time records and integrate time spent into the project schedule, in order to recompute actual and remaining work
* A validation process allows the team member to submit his/her timesheet when it's filled
* A discussion process allows the team member and the project manager to communicate on the timesheet

> Multi-project Reports for Administrator

* Excel reports
* All open projects dashboard, with schedule and budget indicators
* Resource utilization dashboard (on last 3 months, next 3 months or current year)

> Wiki Enhancements

* Button in toolbar to insert a Table of contents in a wiki page
* Button in toolbar to insert a Project status chart in a wiki page
* Button in toolbar to insert a Timeline in a wiki page
* Resizable editor box

> Milestone Constraints

* A milestone can be constrained by the dates of the linked activity, so that the milestone's due date is automatically recomputed whenever the activity dates are changed
* 3 types of constraints: <n> days before/after activity finish, <n> days after/before activity start, <n> % of duration

> Timeline Interaction

* Information pop-up on milestones
* Shortcut to share the Project Timeline with people external to the Planzone
* Change of activity start or finish by resizing the blue/green schedule bar
* Shift of activity dates by dragging the blue/green schedule bar
* Move vertical separator between activity tree and date/work columns
* Edition of % complete and remaining work in Resource Usage view

> Knowledge Center

* User Manual, FAQs, Videos, Glossary and interesting Articles
* Fully translated in English, French and German
* Available since early May 2009
* Now accessible from Planzone web application

> API

* First implementation of Planzone API
* Will be developed further during summer
* Sample of API client: Firefox plugin

> Miscellaneous

* Move vertical separators between left and right panels in several views (Timeline, Resource Usage, To-dos, Documents...)
* IE8 support