Phoenix Project Manager 3.0.17 brings a variety of features and fixes.
Ever wish you could change activity ids to match the current display order? Now you can. Simply select Renumber Activities from the View menu.
We’ve also added the option to set the id increment on newly created activities allowing you to change from the default of 10 to any increment your schedule requires. This also works with the aforementioned Renumber Activities feature so you can easily change every activity. You can find the option in Project Info within the File menu.
To improve workflow we’ve made it so you can access both the Page Layout and Page Setup dialogs from within Print Preview. Now you can quickly adjust the page layout and printer options and see the results immediately.
We’ve also added two new columns you can display on your schedule: the Predecessors column and Successors column. These lets you look up the relationships between activities at a glance taking the guesswork out of determining schedule logic.
Finally, we’ve also added formatting options for Network Diagram. Now you can adjust coloring, line sizing, and fonts to make your diagram look exactly how you want. The new options, as with all formatting options, are per layout allowing you to use multiple layouts to have more than one look for you diagram so you can meet multiple display requirements.
We’ve also included several fixes for various issues our users have reported:
- Network Diagram images now respect the timescaling by anchoring to a particular day and line number. Now no matter what size your schedule is the image will stay where you expect it to.
- For a small subset of users the PDF Printer we included with Phoenix for Windows would cause problems. After careful consideration we’ve decided to remove this feature. Given that several free PDF printer options exist for Windows users we feel that removing the Phoenix PDF printer is the best course of action.
- Currency fields in CSV files now support having a dollar sign or not.
- The third party software Sprint SmartView which is used by certain access cards for broadband internet access on the Sprint network has a bug in which it will kill any running processes named “phoenix.exe” every couple of minutes. This would result in Phoenix being closed randomly. We’ve renamed the Phoenix executable to prevent this from happening while get in contact with Sprint to resolve this problem with their software.
We hope you enjoy the new features and changes.
