- Schedule → Quick Status: We have added a new feature to Dash360 called the Quick Status. This page allows you to easily enter Schedule Status for the current Schedule Status Date set in your Admin → Projects → Edit Project settings. CAMs can now add their status in a more spreadsheet view making it quicker to update Actual / Expected Start & Finish Dates along with the Revised % Complete. CAMs can then submit their Status to their Admin quickly and easily.
- Admin → User Activities: The User Activities page has been enhanced. We have made the datagrid taller so you can see more activities at one time. We also allow you to now page back through the User Activity log as far back as you’d like. Before, it only showed the last 50 activities.
- Estimating → Cost Estimate Form → Edit Resource Assignment: A bug has been corrected where the Start and Finish date on a Resource Assignment would get set back to the first day of the month for the Start Date and the last day of the month for the Finish Date. This bug occurred whenever you changed the dates on the Start and / or Finish Date and then modified the start or finish dollar values in the datagrid below the dates. This only occurred if you had your Start & Finish dates not set to the first and last day of the month AND you changed datagrid values in those same months. It has since been corrected.
- Admin → Import / Export → Import Resource Assignments / Estimating → Cost Estimate Form → Import Timephase Data: A bug existed that allowed Admins to delete Budget Resource Assignments even if that Budget Resource Assignment had a corresponding Earned Resource Assignment attached to it. This would cause issues with the Calculate Earned Value functionality. The system now will not let you delete a Budget Resource Assignment if there is a corresponding Earned Resource Assignment. Instead, the system will show an error and tell the Admin they must first delete the Earned Resource Assignments before trying to delete the Budget Resource Assignment. As a best practice, Budget Resource Assignments with past historical data that have had Earned Value calculated on them should never be deleted from Dash360. Otherwise, you invalidate all of your past historical Earned Value.
- Admin → Projects → Calculate Earned Value: For Percent Complete work packages, the % Complete entered on the Cost Estimating Form should match the Earned % Complete value on the CPR. In a couple of customers cases, this was not happening. The Dash360 Earned Value system will now create an adjusting entry in the current period to insure that these 2 numbers are always equal to each other. This adjusting entry also will take effect on the Milestone % Complete EVT, too.
- Admin → Projects → Recalculate Project: To date, Dash360 can only support a value of 9.99 billion units in any 1 month. Customers can easily create a unit this large by accidentally entering a bad rate into their rate table. In the past, Dash360 would just throw a red error box and say an error had occurred. Now, the system will actually tell you that you have a value that is too large. It will then list the Resource Assignment(s) that caused the error. With this information, you can look up the Resource Code for your Resource Assignment and check all of the Rates attached to that Resource Code to fix the issue.
- Admin → Projects → Registry: A new registry item was created called “Risk-Register-Burndown-Charts-Hide”. By default, it is turned off. If you turn this flag on, the Burndown Charts that display on the Risk Register page will be hidden.
- Reporting → WBS Dictionary: The WBS Dictionary page was also added to the Reporting menu. It also is under the Estimating menu, too.