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Features that are new or improved in Project Management
- Customize the style, thickness, and color of the data date line to better distinguish the data date in printouts and on screen.
- Import several different types of Microsoft Project files, such as MPP, MPX, MPD, MDB, and MPT. A new template enables you to select the options used when importing and exporting data for use with Microsoft Project or other third-party applications (MPX only). You can also export to an XML file for use with Microsoft Project.
- Run a Batch Report through the Primavera Job Service. You can also select EPS nodes on which to run your job services.
- Two new fields on the General tab in the Project Details enable you to view the user that checked out a project and also the date the project was checked out.
- Customize an unlimited number of user-defined fields in any of the following subject areas: Activities, Activity Steps, Activity Resource Assignments, Projects, Resources, WBS, Expenses, Issues, Risks, and Work Products & Documents.
- Indicators, a new type of user-defined field, enable you to enter color-coded values in user-defined fields and display them in columns and reports.
- Use weighted project codes to rank or prioritize projects using a weight value and then view projects by score. Project Management works with myPrimavera抯 project codes and scoring feature to determine the score of each project code.
- Format the timescale color, as well as the font size, type, and color to display in the timescale and columns in the Bar Chart.
- Customize the header and footer for the current layout using new options that allow you to divide the header and footer into multiple sections, select a subject area, and format the font type and size for each section. You can also select which pages to apply the header and footer, and adjust its height.
- Use the Primavera Distributed Job Services (PDJS) feature to utilize job service functionality on multiple machines (rather than a single machine). Up to five PDJS servers can run jobs simultaneously as determined by the master machine (Controller). PDJS is especially useful when running large summarization jobs.
- Display a Stacked Histogram in the Resource/Role Usage Profile or Spreadsheet that displays different colors and patterns to represent multiple resource usage. You can also display the timescale in the profile or spreadsheet based on an average value you specify.
- Display a Timescale Logic Diagram that enables you to show a single summary bar or individual bars for collapsed grouping bands in a layout. You can show bar necking and relationships between the individual summary bars. When grouping/organizing a layout, and collapsing the band(s), the individual bars will move to the top of the grouping band, without overlapping the bar or label above or next to it, under the correct timescale date. Also, you can select which grouping band to expand or collapse to using the Collapse To menu item in the Display Options bar.
- Edit the Windows Registry settings to launch external applications from the Tools menu in Project Management
- A new project security profile, Perform Activity Resource Requests, enables you to assign resource requests to activities in myPrimavera, using the Resource Search Criteria. If a user does not have the privilege to add or edit project activities, this privilege will allow the user to only request resources for activities.
- A new global security profile, View Resource Role Proficiency, enables you to view and search by resource and role proficiency in myPrimavera.
- A new setting in Admin Preferences enables you to calculate earned value using the baseline Budgeted values or At Completion values.
- A new project security profile, Close Out Period, enables you to track an actual this period value for actual units and costs in a project.
- A new project level setting in the Projects Window, Project Details, Calculations tab that allows you to link or unlink the At Completion Costs/Units to the Budgeted costs/units for non-progressed activities.
- A new project level setting to determine how the duration and units of an activity are calculated when progress is removed from the activity. The setting to Reset Original Duration and Units to Remaining or Reset Remaining Duration and Units to Original is located in the Projects Window, Project Details, Calculations tab.
- You can now specify negative units, UPT, and cost (Budgeted, Actual, and Remaining) on activities and resources.
- A new default project setting in the Projects Window, Project Details, Resources tab to allow resources to drive activity dates when adding new resource assignments. If this checkbox is cleared, the resource dates of new assignments will be independent of the activity dates.
- A new resource type, Materials, whose units are not measured in time, but measured in units you specify in the User Preferences. Material type resources, such as supplies, can be measured in units such as pounds, or lbs. You can level material resources, however they can not have roles assigned to them. You can display material resources in the Activity/Resource Usage Profile and Spreadsheet.
- A new timesheets setting in Admin Preferences enables you to specify the number of past timesheets users can access in Timesheets. If 0 is entered, only the current timesheet will be available.
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