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Thursday, February 15th, 2024 Speed Enhancements
  • DASH-1310: Quick Status: We greatly increased the speed of the Quick Status especially when select the CAM → All filter. Pages that used to take minutes now load in < 10 seconds.
  • DASH-1312: Compare Project: This report was also sped up and returns quite quick for many projects.
  • DASH-1313: Compare Cost Class: This report was also sped up and returns quite quick for many projects.
  • DASH-1322: Earned Value Curves: A number of changes were made to this report to make it faster. Enjoy.
  • DASH-1306: Cost Estimating Reports → Form 1030 Quality Check Report: For some customers, this report was really slow (taking a minute to load). We have drastically sped it up to where it now returns in just a few seconds.
  • DASH-1308: Make Report Builder faster: The Report Builder has been sped up quite a bit. We still have more to do on this report, but we wanted to release some of the speed enhancements we found sooner. This report is still quite slow if you are loading a large project with the Data Type of Timephase Level.
  • DASH-1336: Restore Project: Several changes were made to the Restore Project to try to make it complete faster. It has been improved greatly, but we will continue to look for continued performance improvements in the future.
  • Note: We are continuing to improve the performance of the application every day (it is one of our top priorities). The above report performance improvements are just the start and many of the above reports will continue to be sped up and enhanced in the future. This is just our first pass at fixing some of the slowest reports in Dash360. Stay tuned.
New Features
  • DASH-1222: Quick Status Enhancements: We added several new rules to the Quick Status to make sure users understand what is required to fill in when doing schedule status updates. We also fixed error messaging so that it doesn’t get cut off in the UI and we made the boxes with errors have a bright red outline with a pink background to better call out the errors. If you click the Save button and there are errors, an error window pops up telling you that you have errors to correct. Finally, if there are changes you have made when you click Save, then the Quick Status now opens a modal with a version of the Schedule Status Update Report in it. This allows you to easily send your status updates to an Admin for approval. Once the status updates are sent, all Admin users receive a notification in the bell icon. Clicking on it will take the Admin to the Admin → User Status Updates page to Approve (or Delete) the CAM updates.
  • DASH-1323: Work Package Report Enhanced Filters for Download: When you are downloading a WP Report, the system now listens to the Cost Class and Resource Result filters that are selected in the left hand menu flyout.
Small Enhancements & Bug Fixes
  • DASH-1340: Make Automated Project Backups go faster: The automated project backup that runs every night and backs up every project to an Excel file has been limited to now only backup active projects. This is because some clients have dozens of projects and this was taking hours to complete on some customer servers.
  • DASH-1337: Fix Rebuild Index Nightly Job to Exclude Tableau and History Tracking: Modified the rebuild indexes script to not rebuild the indexes on the Tableau and HistoryTracking tables for speed reasons.
  • DASH-1324: Fix Rebuild Cache Nightly Job so that we can clear out the cache nightly before adding more data to it. This is to better optimize the cache we use for the Cost Estimating Reports.
  • DASH-1320: Setup Redirects to fix Browsing Errors: If you clicked on the Dash360 logo or went to some pages without the full URL, Dash360 would sometimes throw an error. We setup several redirects to fix this issue.
  • DASH-1321: Editing Hierarchal WBS Codes via the Admin → Codes → Edit Code dialog would sometimes throw an error when you tried to rename a code. This has been fixed.
  • DASH-1292: Cost Summary Report: If your project is setup with multiple Work Packages under a single WBS, then sometimes the Cost Summary Report would not total the correct total. This has been corrected.
  • DASH-1294: Variance Narrative Report: On some client machiens, if you scrolled the Variance Narrative Report too quickly, you would see gray boxes. Sometimes, these gray boxes would not fill in with the appropriate data. This has been corrected.
  • DASH-1314: Schedule Builder / Viewer: If you have a user view and you try to load the Schedule Builder or Viewer, Dash360 would sometimes duplicate your columns. This has been corrected in this release.
Other Technical Changes
  • DASH-1286: Reformatted the code of several areas to make it easier to read.