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| − | + | 2) These new '''capabilities, features, and enhancements''' are: | |
| − | : | + | :a) User Interface Upgrade |
| − | : | + | :b) The Smart Task/Milestone Text Labeling - Text Label Collision Avoidance Feature |
| − | : | + | :c) Task/Milestone Text Sub-Shape Selection Capability |
| − | : | + | :d) The Multiple Swimlanes Feature |
| − | :(6) New Desktop Applications (TBD) | + | <!--:(5) Text Font Standardization (TBD) |
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===Other Changes for OnePager 7.0=== | ===Other Changes for OnePager 7.0=== | ||
Revision as of 16:32, 22 November 2019
Contents
Overview
Upgrades and New Features
1) OnePager Pro (OPP) and Express (OPX) version 7.0 provides four new capabilities, features, and enhancements that are summarized in this article.
2) These new capabilities, features, and enhancements are:
- a) User Interface Upgrade
- b) The Smart Task/Milestone Text Labeling - Text Label Collision Avoidance Feature
- c) Task/Milestone Text Sub-Shape Selection Capability
- d) The Multiple Swimlanes Feature
Other Changes for OnePager 7.0
2) In the process of producing OnePager 7.0 we responded to our customers by making changes to our terminology usage.
- a) We changed the terminology used to refer to the principle graphic output of OnePager from project view to chart. We did this because the great majority of our customers use OnePager to produce what they call charts and rarely us the term project view when referencing the output products of OnePager in their schedule conversations. In this document (Wiki) the word chart replaces the term project view.
- b) To be consistent with the change to the word chart, we changed the name of the Project-View Properties (PVP) form to Chart Properties form.
- c) Finally, under this terminology change, the Project View Editor (PVE) becomes the Chart Editor everywhere in this Wiki document.
3) The subsections below provide an overview and links to more detailed descriptions of these new capabilities, features, and enhancements:
User Interface Upgrade
Overview
1) The User Interface Upgrade is our approach to giving OnePager products a more up-to-date look and feel consistent with the latest versions of the Microsoft Office and other Project Scheduling software products interfacing with OnePager.
2) This upgrade involves a modernization of the Chart Editor, its tool bar tabs, button icons, and dropdown menus.
3) In a similar way, all primary forms such as the Chart Properties and Template forms are modernized to be consistent through out our product line and to make sub-control groups easier to identify. Additionally, other sub-forms were simplified to achieve the same goals.
More Information
4) Please take a moment to look at the Read More… article below which provides additional information on the new OnePager User Interface upgrade and some examples of the look and feel changes made to the Chart Editor and supporting forms.
- Read More... User Interface Upgrades for OnePager 7.0 0.4.2.1-70
The Smart Task/Milestone Text Label Collision Avoidance Feature
About The Smart Task/Milestone Text Labeling Collision Avoidance Feature
1) Previous versions of OnePager Pro and Express required you to re-position text labels for task names in the chart when various editing actions caused text labels to collide. That is, when the text labels overlay a task shape or other task text labels and become difficult to read in the chart.
2) In such cases, you need to select the task shape, go to the Home tool tab's Position control group, and select a new text label position from those available in that control group. Often, it required several selections and perhaps the creation of a text label in a comment box and a few drag and drop actions before the text labels became more readable.
3) With OnePager 7.0 the capability is provided for you to use the Smart Task/Milestone Text Labeling Collision Avoidance feature that recognizes these text label collision situations during updates of the chart and automatically attempts to take the task shape text labels involved out of collision.
- a) Implementation of this new feature comes with two additional text label position options: Best fit all directions and Best fit above/below.
- b) Also provided are a set of controls that give you options for establishing the priorities with which the text label collision avoidance algorithm, as we call it, employs the feature for you.
- c) Finally, there is a new command provided in the task shape right-click context menu you can use to perform the text label collision avoidance algorithm manually on selected task shapes that are involved in a text label collision situation.
More Information
3) Detailed information on the new Smart Task Milestone Text Labeling Collision Avoidance feature can be found at these link: Resolving Task/Milestone Text Label Collisions (Portal) 9.7.1-70, Task/Milestone Text Labels for OnePager Pro 10.15.1.-70, and Task/Milestone Text Labels for OnePager Express. 10.16.1.-70.
4) Please take a moment to look at the Read More… article below which provides an introduction of these new Text Collision Avoidance features with examples below:
- Read More... The Smart Task/Milestone Text Label Collision Avoidance Feature. 0.4.2.2-70
New Rules to Task/Milestone Shape and Text Label Selection in the Chart
1) As part of the Smart Task/Milestone Text Labeling feature's implementation introduced in OnePager 7.0, we changed the rules for task shape and text label manual left-click and right-click selection as follows:
2) Left-Click Selection Rules:
- a) To select a task shape in OnePager 7.0 you left-click the task shape itself.
- b) To select the task shape's text label left-click the text label only.
3) Right-Click Selection Rules:
- a) A right-click on a task shape accesses a context menu with commands that are associated with edits to the task shape itself.
- b) A right-click on a text label accesses a specific context menu tailored with commands that are for edits to the text label.
- c) When a set of task shapes and their associated text labels are in a text label collision situation, a right-click on the tasks shape accesses the context menu augmented with a command to invoke the text label collision avoidance algorithm.
4) Select Associated Text Checkbox Usage:
- a) Since these new rules represents a change from previous versions of OnePager Pro and Express with respect to selecting task shapes and their text labels, OnePager 7.0 provides a option for setting the behavior of task shape selection to that of previous versions.
- b) This option is controlled by a checkbox in the Advanced tab of the Template and Chart Properties forms in the Display options control group called Select associated text.
- c) The default setting in the checkbox is checked OFF.
- d) Checking this checkbox to ON changes the behavior of a left-click on a task shape such that the left-click selects both the task shape and the text label.
- e) Regardless of the setting in the Select associated text checkbox, there is no difference in how the right-click on a task shape and/or text label operates.
5) Changes to Task Shape and Text Label Right-Click Context Menus:
- a) The changes to task shape and text label selection described above offers an opportunity to simplify the context menus associated with task shapes and text labels.
- b) The right-click on task shape context menu contains commands available in previous versions of OnePager Pro and Express with the addition of a new command associated with the Smart Task/Milestone Text Labeling feature - the Re-optimize text collisions for the selected task/milestones command.
- c) This new context menu command is explained in greater detail in the Wiki articles referenced below.
- d) The right click on a text label has a simplified context menu of two commands that allows you to edit the text label name and to access the Change Task/Milestone Properties form at the Task Label tab. As in previous OnePager versions this form allows you to turn the display of text labels ON and OFF, change their positions relative to their task shape, and change their font properties.
More Information
6) Detailed articles on the new Task/Milestone Shape and Text Label Selection rules can be found at this link: Selecting Task/Milestone Shapes and Text Labels 9.1.1-70
7) Please take a moment to look at the Read More… article below which provides an introduction of these new Task/Milestone Shape and Text Label Selection rules with examples below:
- Read More... New Task/Milestone Shape and Text Label Selection Rules 0.4.2.3-70.
Related Links
User Interface Upgrades for OnePager 7.0 0.4.2.1-70
The Smart Task/Milestone Text Label Collision Avoidance Feature. 0.4.2.2-70
New Task/Milestone Shape and Text Label Selection Rules 0.4.2.3-70
Selecting Task/Milestone Shapes and Text Labels. 9.1.1 -70
Resolving Task/Milestone Text Label Collisions (Portal) 9.7.1-70
Task/Milestone Text Labels for OnePager Pro 10.15.1.-70
Task/Milestone Text Labels for OnePager Express. 10.16.1.-70
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