- Dash360 now has a Risk Register! Track the risks for your project quickly and easily using our new Risk Register data grid. Add, Edit and Delete risks.
- View Risk Register Heat Maps that show risk distribution based on cost & schedule impact.
- Run Monte Carlo simulations against your risk register and see graphs showing you various outcomes for your project based on your risk data.
- The system also keeps track of every change you make to a risk with a real delta detection system. This allows you to easily track changes to risks throughout the life of your project. Dash360 shows these risk changes as old and new value pairs per field with a date timestamp, which user changed the value and what the old and new value were for that risk.
- A new Edit Project → Duration tab has been built that allows the admin to setup Uncertainty Classes for Schedule Durations for a project’s schedule. This feature allows you to define a min, max and most likely factor duration groupings that can then be selected by users in the Cost Estimate Form → Schedule section when adding tasks to the schedule. When the user selects an uncertainty class, the system automatically select the min, most likely and max factor and applies the percentage against the entered duration. The system then saves the corresponding min, most likely and max duration result from the class selection. Schedule imports and exports also have been updated to include these new uncertainty min, most likely and max durations.
- Startup Page - There is a new Registry setting that allows the Admin to choose which page should be the startup page for their installation. This setting must be set in the Default registry because it is system-wide (instead of based on project).
- Dashboard - The Dashboard was enhanced to make it load faster (a 300% improvement). Also, the Dashboard data is now cached and updated every 1 hour automatically. This also has improved overall Dashboard performance. The date / time that the data was cached is also shown on the screen. There is also has a refresh button on the Dashboard that allows any user to refresh the cache (in case changes have made the dashboard data stale). There is also a dashboard cache refresh registry setting that allows the admin to choose how long to cache the dashboard data in minutes.
- Admin → Users → Add / Edit User - We now have a hide user account feature. This allows you to create a user and then hide that user from all dropdown list in the front end of the product. Some customers requested this feature to hide some admins from the frontend of the system while still allowing those users to login.
- Cost Estimate Form: There was a small bug that allowed CAMs to progress to creating a work package instead of requesting a work package. This would happen if the CAM selected a Project, then a WBS and then clicked the process icon and then the Create a Work Package option. The system has been updated to not allow the CAM to create a work package from the frontend system. They must request a work package and have an Admin approve it.
- Cost Estimate Form → View Estimate Total Summaries - The popup cost widget now shows an orange hyperlink over the Labor, Non-Labor and Travel text. When you hover over this text, the system shows you a breakdown of the total costs per resource result (FTEs, Direct, Escalation, etc) for each resource type (labor, nonlabor, travel).
- Cost Estimate Form → Add / Edit Resource Assignment - Fixed a weird bug where copying and pasting into the Add / Edit Resource Assignment form would create an image upload with the data that you copied into a file upload. The system no longer performs this odd “feature”.
- Cost Estimate Form → Labor, Non-Labor and Travel sections - We added unit totals to each summary totals box. So, you now have the unit and total cost for each shown on the Cost Estimating Form.
- Cost Estimate Form → General Comments / Date Last Updated - Updated the dates & timestamps so they show the user’s timezone. This only applies to the dates and times on the Date Last Updated and General Comments sections.
- Copy Non-Labor / Travel Resource Assignment Unit Cost Bug Fix - Corrected a bug with copied nonlabor and travel resource assignments. To reproduce this odd bug, the user had to copy a non-labor or travel resource assignments who had a resource code whose Direct rate was set to → 1. Then, after copying the resource assignment, the user would have to change the Resource Code for the copied RA to a new Resource Code also with a Direct Rate → 1. In this case, the system would not update the Unit Cost display field to the new Direct rate.
- Cost Estimate Form / WP Report: Added a CAM Permissions field that allows admins to select a CAM and see all of their permissions in the system. This is really just a frontend shortcut to see all of the permissions for that CAM from the frontend of the product. Also, changed the CAM filter so that all users can now see it. This allows CAMs to filter the front-end WP Report by themselves or other CAMs.
- Cost Estimating Reports - Added separate Work Package Number & Description columns to most reports. Also added WBS Levels to most reports.
- Work Package Report: Added the WBS Dictionary to the WP Report. The Export to Excel feature now also downloads the Resource Assignment details if the user is viewing the Detailed version of the report and chooses to export to Excel.
- Staffing Plan Report: Added multiple hidden columns to the report for Resource ID and Resource Description.
- The loading graphic was shrunk down to a small size.
- The file upload tool used to show NaN for the file size for existing files. The file size has now been removed from the display.
- The Estimating → Cost Book Report has been removed from the system. It was almost identical to the more robust Work Package Report.
- FTEs / FTE (Months) - A few labels were changed in the system to signify FTEs vs FTE (Months).
- CPR → Load Previous Reporting Periods - this feature was throwing a javascript error when the system did not have a previous period. It is now fixed.
- Earned Value → RAM: You can now see the RAM for the Current Budget - making it a useful report even before you have Earned Value data.
- Format 1030 Report: You can now show non-currency fields (ex: FTEs) on the report. Also added new subtotal lines to the report.
- Copy Project - Enhanced the Copy Project feature to include more tables in the copy. Also, fixed errors with Signature Steps not getting backed up correctly.
- Backup Project - Added links to the Cost Estimate and Resource Assignment links spreadsheets in the Backup Project file. This allows the admin to see and download all of the files in a project.
- Bulk Edit - Fixed the select all functionality so that if you filter the results, only the filtered results are selected when you select all.
- Copy Resource Calculation - When you copy a resource calculation, now the Format 1030 code is also copied if it exists.
- A Registry attribute was added to allow you to hide the old Activity ID and Activity Phase columns. These columns have been replaced by the Activity IDs field which allows Cost and Schedule integration. We have left the fields in place for now as existing customers do have some pertinent data in the old Activity ID and Activity Phase fields.
- Admin → Rates: There was a javascript error after deleting a rateset. The rateset would get deleted, but the screen would not properly refresh. This has been corrected.
- Admin → Edit Project → Resource File - A bug would occur if the admin had a project with existing resource assignments and changed the projects resource file. The system would not automatically update all of the resource assignments to point to the corresponding resource codes in the new file (it would still have the resource assignments point to the old resource codes in the old file). This would then break the Edit Resource Assignment screen. This has been corrected. Now, when a new Resource File is selected for an existing project with resource assignments, the system correctly updates all resource assignments to point at the new corresponding resource codes. In order for this to work, resource codes in both files must have the exact same resource code name (Resource Id).