Asta Powerproject version 15.0.01.458 release notes

This topic lists the issues that have been addressed in the Asta Powerproject version 15.0.01.458 fast track release.

Issue 31279/31545
Category Bar chart
Summary Unable to drag and drop calendars onto summary tasks, expanded tasks or hammocks.
Description Two customers reported that since the release of version 15.0.01, it was no longer possible to drag and drop a calendar onto a summary task, expanded task or hammock to update that task's calendar.
Resolution This issue has been resolved.

 

Issue 31511
Category General
Summary Changes to the Product Activation dialog.
Description This release sees some changes to the Product Activation dialog to ensure that Elecosoft is compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

 

Issue 31516/31639
Category Import and export
Summary Unable to import a project from Microsoft Project, in either XML or MPP format.
Description Two customers reported that they were unable to import a project from Microsoft Project. In one case, Asta Powerproject crashed; in the other case, a "This file does not exist or doesn't contain a valid XML" error appeared.
Resolution This issue was caused by the files in question including <ScheduleFromStart>1</ScheduleFromStart>, when the XML did not include a <StartDate> that was required. Asta Powerproject has been enhanced to cope with files that include invalid XML of this type.

 

Issue 31547
Category Histograms
Summary Use histograms to graph activity days.
Description A request was made for it to be possible to use histograms to graph the days on which activities are scheduled - also known as "activity days".
Resolution You can now graph activity days. To do this, select Task in the histogram pane resource selector and display a histogram report that includes the Allocation() generator, against which no resource has been specified.

 

Issue 31622
Category Asta Powerproject 4D
Summary IFC file fails to open in Asta Powerproject 4D.
Description A customer reported that they were unable to open an IFC file in Asta Powerproject 4D and that the "IFC model failed to load" message appeared.
Resolution The currency parsing error that caused this problem has been resolved.

 

Issue 31647
Category Logical paths
Summary Logical paths split with two links between tasks.
Description Before this release, if two tasks were linked by two links, one driving and one not, logical paths were calculated incorrectly and would split when they should not do so.
Resolution Logical paths are now calculated correctly in cases where two tasks are linked by two links, one driving and one not.