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PERT Chart EXPERT Revisions
Below is a list of fixes and enhancements since PERT Chart EXPERT 2.0. Note that fixes are cumulative. For example, if you are using 2.3 and you upgrade to 2.7a you get the fixes for 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7.
PERT Chart EXPERT version 2.7a
Released on May 18, 2010
List of Issues and Fixes since version 2.7
Issue: PERT Chart EXPERT is not compatible with Project 2010.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT is now compatible with Project 2010.
PERT Chart EXPERT version 2.7
Released on February 1, 2010
List of Issues and Fixes since version 2.6
Issue: Help did not work in Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Fix: There is a new Help system in PERT Chart EXPERT that is compatible with all versions of Windows including Vista and Windows 7.
Issue: Hyperlinks to a .docx file did not work.
Fix: Hyperlinks now work with .docx files and browsing for Word docs in the Hyperlinks tab includes .docx files.
Issue: The Setup file was not digitally signed.
Fix: The Setup file is now digitally signed and displays as a "Trusted Publisher" when run.
Issue: Uninstalling PERT Chart EXPERT would attempt to remove components from MS Project even if it did not configure MS Project during Setup. This could cause problems if MS Project was not installed.
Fix: Uninstalling PERT Chart EXPERT will not attempt to remove MS Project components if it did not install them.
Issue: Users of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Taiwanese Windows would see incorrect dates in PERT Chart EXPERT when linked to Project. Instead of a date like 12/25/09 Wednesday, PERT Chart EXPERT would display something like 12/9/25.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT now display correct dates for users of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Taiwanese versions of Windows.
Issue: Accessing PERT Chart EXPERT from the command line and passing it a .txt or .csv file only worked if PERT Chart EXPERT was closed.
Fix: You can now access PERT Chart EXPERT from the command line and pass it a .txt or .csv file while the program is running.
Issue: You could not access PERT Chart EXPERT from the command line and pass it a View.
Fix: You can now access PERT Chart EXPERT from the command line and pass it View along with a .wbs, .txt or .csv file. Here is an example of the syntax you would use when running this process:
C:\Program Files\PERT Chart EXPERT\pertchartexpert.exe “c:\pert.txt” view=”view name”
PERT Chart EXERT version 2.6
Released on January 10,
2008
List of Issues and
Fixes since version 2.5
Issue: When using MS Project 2003 SP3 and attempting to create a PERT chart from MS Project a blank chart would appear in PERT Chart EXPERT.
Fix: This was due to a setting in MS Project that was added to the SP3 release. Installing PERT Chart EXPERT version 2.6 fixes this or you can manually fix this in MS Project by going to Tools-Options-Security and clicking the "Allow Legacy Files and Formats..." button.
Issue: Unlinking from a MS Project plan created in Project 2007 Standard would fail.
Fix: You can now Unlink from a MS Project plan created in Project 2007 Standard.
Issue: PERT Chart EXPERT did not support the Czech version of MS Project.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT now supports the Czech version of MS Project.
PERT Chart EXERT version 2.5
Released on February 9,
2007
List of Issues and
Fixes since version 2.4
Issue: PERT Chart EXPERT not compatible with Microsoft Project 2007.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT version 2.5 is compatible with Project 2007 (in addition to Project 4.1a, Project 98, Project 2000, Project 2002 and Project 2003).
Issue: Could not create PERT chart from MS Project plans stored on SharePoint. If you used MS Project to open a .mpp file stored on SharePoint and then tried to create a PERT chart it would fail.
Fix: You can now open MS Project plans stored on SharePoint and create PERT charts.
Issue: Problem with MS Project plans saved to mapped drive letters. If you saved a MS Project plan to a mapped drive letter (eg: Q:) the PERT chart was not able to link successfully to this MS Project plan in some instances. It would create a new PERT chart instead of linking to the existing PERT chart.
Fix: PERT charts can now recognize mapped drive letters correctly.
Issue: Passing a .pce chart on the command line would only work if you did not have PERT Chart EXPERT running. If you started PERT Chart EXPERT and passed a filename at the same time it would only work if the PERT Chart EXPERT program was not currently running. If it was running it would only switch to PERT Chart EXPERT and not open the file.
Fix: If you run PERT Chart EXPERT with a filename it will open this file in PERT Chart EXPERT even if the program is already running.
Issue: Clicking a .pce file in a Browser displays text instead of displaying a PERT chart.
Fix: You can now click a .pce file in a browser and have it display a PERT chart. However, if this does not work you may need to set the Mime Type or Content Type on your network. See www.criticaltools.com/mime for details.
Issue: Not compatible with Norwegian or Russian versions of MS Project.
Fix: Now compatible with Norwegian and Russian versions of MS Project.
Issue: When linked to MS Project, Cut and Paste in a PERT chart (and Drag and Drop of tasks in a PERT chart) would sometimes drop dependencies when Grouped by Outline Level. In rare cases it would refuse to perform the Paste altogether and the tasks you were attempting to Cut would disappear. This is mostly due to MS Project's way of handling dependencies when cutting and pasting tasks among different summary tasks. MS Project has an inconsistent approach to whether it maintains or removes links to tasks when cutting and pasting across summary tasks.
Fix: We now remember all dependencies on tasks that are cut and pasted so that dependencies are maintained. This actually works better then if you cut and pasted tasks in MS Project!
Issue: Issue with displaying and defining Months and Minutes when using the German version of MS Project.
Fix: Months and Minutes now displayed and used correctly when linked to the German version of MS Project.
PERT Chart EXERT version 2.4
Released on January 26,
2005
List of Issues and
Fixes since version 2.3
Issue: Problems when using Project Server 2002 or Project Server 2003 as described in www.criticaltools.com/projectserver
Fix: All known problems when using PERT Chart EXPERT and Project Server 2002 and 2003 have been fixed.
Issue: In Microsoft Project, if you use the Grouping feature you could not create a PERT chart. Clicking the PERT icon from within MS Project while Grouped displayed a "Bad outline level detected" error message.
Fix: You can now create a PERT chart from a MS Project plan that is Grouped.
Issue: No support for the Traditional Chinese version of MS Project.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT now integrates with the Traditional Chinese version of MS Project.
Issue: When using the Swedish version of MS Project, displaying a PERT chart with the "Hours" field would sometimes display hours as "0d" even though there were hours assigned to the task.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT now displays hours correctly when using the Swedish version of MS Project.
Note for other users of Non-English versions of MS Project: If your PERT chart of a MS Project plan displays all other values like Duration, Cost, etc. correctly in the PERT chart but does not display Hours correctly (dislpays "0d") please contact us for a fix. We would need to ask you for a few words of translation and can provide a fix within a day or two.
Issue: Transferring a standalone PERT chart to the French or Spanish version of MS Project would fail.
Fix: PERT charts are now correctly transferred to French or Spanish versions of MS Project.
Note for other users of Non-English versions of MS Project: If you experience trouble when transferring a standalone PERT chart to your version of MS Project please contact us for a fix. We would need to ask you for a few words of translation and can provide a fix within a day or two.
Issue: When installing into a Non-English version of Project 2003 it would sometimes stop with MS Project displaying a message to overwrite a View.
Fix: Fixed the Setup so that MS Project no longer displays a message.
Issue: When using PERT Chart EXPERT with certain Non-English versions of MS Project it would crash when Unlinking a PERT chart from a MS Project plan.
Fix: No longer crashes when Unlinking a PERT chart from Non-English versions of MS Project.
Issue: With a PERT chart linked to a MS Project plan, changing the Flag names in Tools-Border Names would not be saved.
Fix: Renaming the Flag fields in a PERT chart that is linked to a MS Project plan now gets saved.
Issue: Cannot display the CV% field.
Fix: CV% field now available.
Issue: Unlinking a PERT chart from a MS Project plan would fail when using Project 2003 Standard. Once Unlinked the PERT chart would disappear.
Fix: Unlinking a PERT chart from Project 2003 Standard now works.
Issue: External Task does not appear in the Borders Legend.
Fix: External now appears in the Borders Legend.
Issue: A MS Project plan that had Inserted Projects within other Inserted Projects would produce an incorrect PERT chart.
Fix: You can now correctly create PERT chart of a MS Project plan with multiple levels of Subprojects or Inserted Projects.
Issue: No support for double slashes in path names for areas such as "Save as Web Pages" folder or "Tools-Options".
Fix: Now supports double slashes in path names.
Issue: With a PERT chart linked to a MS Project plan you could enter greater than 255 characters into certain fields in the PERT chart. These would then disappear when the PERT chart was refreshed.
Fix: This is because MS Project cannot handle fields with more than 255 characters. We have fixed this so that you can enter up to 255 characters into certain fields in a PERT chart linked to a MS Project plan.
Issue: The number fields do not display commas.
Fix: The number fields now display commas or other appropriate number separators as defined in Regional Settings.
PERT Chart EXERT version 2.3
Released on October
14,
2003
List of Issues and
Fixes since version 2.2
Issue: PERT Chart EXPERT versions 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 are not compatible with Microsoft Project 2003.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT version 2.3 is compatible with Microsoft Project 2003. Download PERT version 2.3 from our website and install over your existing PERT Chart EXPERT software for compatibility with MS Project 2003.
Issue: Hyperlinks not supported.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT now contains a Hyperlink feature that allows you to go to a document or web page. If you doubleclick a task and choose the Hyperlink tab you can enter a Hyperlink Address and Subaddress (a bookmark or section within a document or web page). Any task with a Hyperlink will display a small box above and to the left of the task box. Click this box to jump to the specified Hyperlink.
Issue: When using the Grouping feature, if you set the Group Header color to None or the Top or Bottom line to None this was not being saved.
Fix: You can now set a Group Header color to None and Top/Bottom line style to None and it will be saved.
Issue: Creating a PERT chart from Microsoft Project while in the Task Usage or Resource Usage View could crash PERT Chart EXPERT and/or MS Project.
Fix: You can now go to PERT Chart EXPERT from MS Project's Task Usage or Resource Usage view.
Issue: Selecting Save As Default for customized Flag and Border Names that were not being saved.
Fix: Now saved.
Issue: Custom colors and box positions in a Standalone PERT chart that was transferred to MS Project would lose the custom colors and box positions.
Fix: Custom colors and box positions in a PERT chart transferred to MS Project are not maintained.
Issue: Box Widths and Box Heights were taking into account tasks that do not appear in the chart. Because of this, if you selected to Match Box Widths or Match Box Heights it would appear to make boxes much bigger than any in your chart.
Fix: Box Widths and Box Heights now only take into account the tasks on the screen.
Issue: Tasks with Custom Box settings that were hidden in MS Project would appear in a chart.
Fix: Now they stay hidden.
Issue: PERT charts linked to later versions of MS Project could not be opened using an earlier version of MS Project. For example, if you had a PERT chart linked to a Project 2002 plan and then tried to open it with Project 2000 installed it would fail.
Fix: PERT charts linked to MS Project plans are now backwards compatible.
Issue: Selecting more than one task in a Trace would give incorrect results.
Fix: Trace corrected.
Issue: Can't renumber PERT charts.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT now contains a simple Renumber option that updates the Id of tasks as they appear from left to right (and top to bottom). This option is only available when creating a standalone PERT chart by selecting Tools-Renumber Tasks. If you are linked to MS Project the Id's are controlled by MS Project and you must change them there.
PERT Chart EXERT version 2.2
Released on January 13,
2003
List of Issues and
Fixes since version 2.1
Issue: When working with PERT Chart EXPERT and large MS Project plans it can be slow to create PERT charts. Even when filtering a small number of tasks it still takes a long time to produce a PERT chart.
Fix: This version uses a new technique to extract data from MS Project which should make it much faster. Especially if you are using large MS Project plans and use filters to display only a small number of tasks. It no longer needs to grab all of the tasks from the MS Project plan but only the filtered tasks. You should now see significant speed improvements when displaying a small number of tasks from a large MS Project file.
Issue: When creating a PERT chart of a large MS Project plan, small changes would force PERT Chart EXPERT to stop and refresh all of the data from the MS Project plan. On large files this was very time consuming.
Fix: This is now optimized to only extract the relevant data from MS Project enabling it to be much faster.
Issue: Creating PERT charts from MS Project would leave various *.TMP and/or *.TXT files in the MS Project most recently used file list (the files you see at the bottom of the File menu in MS Project).
Fix: This process is now kept to a minimum and only one .txt file (CriticalTools.txt) is used. You should only see this file occasionally in the Most Recently Used File list in MS Project.
Issue: Using the @Risk software from Palisade Software with MS Project 98 or Project 2000, @Risk would stop working when PERT Chart EXPERT is installed into Project 98 or Project 2000.
Fix: The problem was that PERT Chart EXPERT installed a Table into Project with greater than 91 fields. If a table exists in Project 98 or Project 2000 with greater than 91 fields defined this would cause @Risk to fail. PERT Chart EXPERT no longer uses tables in MS Project and installing this new version of PERT Chart EXPERT removes the old tables. You can now install and run both @Risk and PERT Chart EXPERT in MS Project.
Issue: PERT Chart EXPERT could not link to MS Project Database files (*.MPD). You could create charts from a database file within MS Project but the corresponding PERT chart was not linked and any changes made to the PERT chart would not update the corresponding Database file in MS Project.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT can now create linked charts of Database files that have been opened in MS Project. PERT charts are Linked and any changes you make to a PERT chart are immediately reflected in the corresponding MS Project plan.
Issue: PERT Chart EXPERT could not link to MS Project plans stored in Project Server (*.published, etc). You could create charts from a published Project Server plan but the corresponding PERT chart was not linked. Any changes made to the PERT chart would not update the corresponding Project Server plan in MS Project.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT can now create linked charts of published Project Server plans in Project 2002. PERT charts are Linked and any changes you make to a PERT chart are immediately reflected in the corresponding MS Project plan.
Issue: When saving charts on certain networks an "Access Denied" message was displayed and you were unable to save to the network drive.
Fix: You should now be able to save on any network drive.
Issue: PERT charts (*.pce) linked to a MS Project plan would remember the version of MS Project that it was linked to. If you attempted to open this PERT chart using a different version of Project it could potentially fail.
Fix: When opening a PERT chart file (*.pce) it will attempt to open the version of Project it was saved with but if this is not present then it will open the latest version of MS Project installed.
Issue: Date fields displayed in the Header and Footer of charts were only being updated when the chart was created.
Fix: Date fields displayed in the Header and Footer of charts are now constantly updated to always display the correct date and time.
PERT Chart EXERT version 2.1
Released on May 13, 2002
List of Issues and Fixes since version 2.0Issue: PERT Chart EXPERT not compatible with Project 2002.
Fix: PERT Chart EXPERT 2.1 is compatible with Microsoft Project 2002.
Issue: Changing a View in a chart would not update the default unless you did an Export (which was not the obvious thing to do).
Fix: If you change a View in a chart this View is automatically saved over the default View of the same name in the Views folder. This means that when you open another PERT chart it will have the same formatting options.
There is also an option to Automatically Save Changed Views, Prompt to Save Views or Do not Save Views. These are set in Tools-Options.
Issue: Could not rearrange Groups when using the Grouping feature.
Fix: You can now rearrange Groups in the PERT chart if grouped by Resource Names, Resource Groups or by Text fields. If you save the chart these rearrangements will also be saved.
Issue: In the Groups dialog box putting an X in the checkbox would hide a group and this seemed backwards.
Fix: In the newly designed Groups dialog, an X in the checkbox means that the Group will be displayed. Remove the X to hide that Group in the PERT chart.
Issue: If you saved a PERT chart linked to a MS Project plan you had to save it into the Documents directory for MS Project to find it the next time you went from MS Project to PERT Chart EXPERT.
Fix: If you save a PERT chart from a MS Project plan the next time you go from your MS Project plan to PERT Chart EXPERT it will automatically open this saved PERT chart wherever you may have saved it.
Issue: If you created a PERT chart from Microsoft Project and saved this PERT chart this did not automatically save the corresponding Microsoft Project plan.
Fix: If you create a PERT chart from a Microsoft Project plan and save the PERT chart it also saves the corresponding MS Project plan.
Issue: Dependency lines would sometimes overlap and/or cross when not necessary.
Fix: Dependency lines are now drawn better to avoid line overlaps and crossing.
Issue: Dependency lines would sometimes be drawn off the top of the chart on big charts when using Windows 95 and 98.
Fix: Very long dependency lines are now drawn correctly in Windows 95 and 98.
Issue: Sometimes the screen would jump around when using a feature or menu.
Fix: Sometimes the screen would jump to the "current" task (the one with the red outline) when it was not necessary. This would cause the screen to move away from the area of the chart that you may have been viewing. We have fixed this so that the screen only moves when necessary.
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