News EzPlan-IT release history June 9, 2008, Release of EzPlan-IT 4.0.00: New: Printer output can now be scaled to values > 100% New: Printer output can now be scaled horizontally and vertically with different values. New: TEzGraph now implements event OnGetHint which allows you to pass a hint value whenever the the mouse passes over a line. Fix: Scheduling a group of child tasks with a parent constraint of 'finish at or before' failed. October 10, 2007, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.8.90: Mix resource and capacity assignments in one task Detailed schedule data returned in property Task.WorkIntervals Support for resource operators implemented Fixed: schedule direction was not updated when a task had a DNL constraint. Fixed: when scheduling against capacity the scheduler returned the schedule result of the worst resource. Fixed: setting working hours to '24:00' was interpreted as '0:00' June 6, 2007, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.8.20: Unicode support Support for Delphi 2007 New EzDataset designer Easy copying of fields from your datasets Directly add new fields Print progress added Notify users about the progress of their printjob and allow them to cancel the job at any time. Important Scheduler now schedules against working hours instead of to duration. This requires a code change in your schedule routine (see file Release.txt). August 21, 2006, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.5.23: Fixed: Dragging a progress bar raised an AV Fixed: Records were loaded into the wrong row of the screen cache when gaoCacheAllRows was set. Fixed: Screen cache was refreshed when changing the size of TEzGanttChart and gaoCacheAllRows was set Fixed: Repainting problems when resizing TEzGanttChart and gaoCacheAllRows was set August 1, 2006, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.5.21: Summary bars can now also be moved using the mouse Support for adding predecessor relations to the gantt chart improved Problem solved with printing duplicate records on multi page report New event: TEzDbTreeGrid.OnDrawTitleCell May 4, 2006, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.5.00: All resource strings are moved to a separate file. Extra information when the scheduler cannot schedule a task, like:   - which resource failed   - how was the schedule window calculated May 4, 2006, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.5.00: Drag-and-drop support enhanced Bars can now be dragged to another row and a another location at the same time. Bug fixed with application icon being overwritten with an interal EzPlan-IT image. Behaviour of scrollbars fixed in TEzDBTreeGrid, TEzDBCoolGrid and TEzGanttChart when using AlwaysVisible property. Horizontal scrollbar range can now be set programatically for TEzGanttChart. February 13, 2006, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.96: Updating tasks %-complete using the mouse wasn't working. Problem in scheduler fixed when using 'do not level' constraint Function GetTaskWindow returned the wrong window. Check added for allocated flag Sometimes the 'allocated flag' wasn't checked when scheduling a task. This could cause a task to be scheduled accross another task even when the resource didn't have the 'work on different tasks simultaneously flag'. January 9, 2006, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.93: Error 'Property ClientHeight' does not exist fixed EzSpecials split in a runtime and designtime package for Delphi 2006 release. December 22, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.91: Bug fixed when opening and closing the resource allocation dialog When closing this dialog, an access violation was raised. This version fixes this problem. Support for Delphi 2006 added December 21, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.90: EzProject: each project now has a calendar assigned which is used for scheduling tasks that have no resource assigned. This calendar is also used to fill the background of the ganttchart. EzProject: Tasks are scheduled imediately when data is changed EzProject now schedules a task whenever data changes. EzProject: the buttons insert task, delete task, insert child task are always active. This way, you can add multiple tasks to the project by pressing 'insert' without the need for using the mouse. TEzCalendar now supports rules that skip each other week, two weeks, etc. A new property called Count has been added to TEzCalendarRule which controls in which week/month a rule is active. The default value for count is 1 which means the rule applies to every week/month. Setting Count to a higher value tells TEzCalendar that the rule only applies to every other week (count=2) or every two weeks (count=3). Count can only be used when a start date is also given for the rule (see RangeStart). TEzCalendar now supports rules which are active from a certain date. A new property called RangeStart has been added to TEzCalendarRule which controls the date from which a rule is active. TEzCalendar now supports rules which are active to a certain date. A new property called RangeStop has been added to TEzCalendarRule which controls the date to which a rule is active. TEzCalendar now supports rules are active only a number of times. A new property called Occurrences has been added to TEzCalendarRule which controls the number of times a rule is before it's deactivated. Format flags of Quarter scale were wrong The default format flags displayed in the EzTimebar dialog still used the old formatting style where # represented the quarter number. Because this format specifier has been replaced by '!3' the default flags required changing. August 12, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.60: New: Scale-to-fit support when printing New: Add a legend to your printout New: Rectangular selection of ganttbars using the mouse New: Offset property on TEzTimebar New: New function added to EzPraser: COMPARETEXT New: Range functions added to TEzParser: CHILDSNOTNULL PARENTNOTNULL PARENTSNOTNULL THISNOTNULL Bug: Bad ganttchart repaint when scale is set to msDay and using a large Count value. June 22, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.50: New: Format specifiers of TEzTimebar extended Special specifiers can be used to include the number of years/months/weeks/days between your project start date and the current date. Update: TEzTimebar.Canvas property is now public. Bug: Fixed EzPrinter so that it can be used with TEzPreview. Bug: Fixed problems with using some standard functions in the parser. Functions like 'trim', 'ltrim' and 'rtrim' can now be used. May 17, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.4: New: Predecessorlines are now selectable. New: Ganttchart is now updated while scrolling Updated: TGanttbarLabelPosition type redifined. March 9, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.2: You can now control how TEzGanttChart will hatch areas outside the project boundaries. Bug fixed when resizing the TEzTimebar cells. Bug fixed in TEzGanttChart where it does not show the vertical scrollbar when the chart opens. March 1, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.1: Delphi 2005 support (VCL/Win32 version) New: event in OnPrepareCacheRow added to TEzGanttChart This event fires every time TEzGanttChart needs to prepare a new row in the cache. Bug: Fixed problem with printing wide columns When the grid contained a column that was wider than the width of the page, TEzPrinter would go into an endless loop because it kept on trying to fit the column on the next page. Bug: Vertical scrollbar in TEzGanttChart is hidden even when AlwaysVisible is set to ssBoth. This problem is fixed. Updated: Enabled public write acesss to TEzTimebar.MajorWidth property Bug: Fixed bug when TEzTimebar used either hour or minute scale. Changed: TEzGraph now fires event OnOverLine for every line. Also when CanEdit is false. February 16, 2005, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.3.0: Changed: New TextFlags property in TEzTreegridScheme and TEzCoolgridScheme. This property allows you to set the standard Windows textflags used when drawing text on the canvas. You can now for example control whether or not ellipses should be drawn in a certain cell of the grid (tfEndEllipses, tfPathEllipses). Changed: New property ScrollbarOptions for TEzDbGrids. This property and it's sub-properties give you better control on how scrollbars are handled by the grids. For example you can now allways hide or allways show a certain bar. Changed: TEzGanttChart now supports a vertical scrollbar. This scrollbar is attached to the dataset of the ganntchart and determines the record position. Changed: TEzAvailabilityProfile now uses int64 values to store the datetime value (was TDateTime). Using TDateTime values caused problems with rounding which resulted in strange behaviour of the scheduler. Changed: OnOverGanttChart event added to TEzGanttChart This event is fired whenever the mouse moves over the ganttchart. It has additional parameters that allow you to inspect the location of the mouse and react accordingly. If you are now using TEzGanttChart.OnMouseMove then that event should be changed to this event. Changed: OnOverLine event added to TEzGraph This new event fires when the user moves the mouse over an editable line in the TEzGraph. Changed: OnLineMoved event added to TEzGraph This new event fires when the user moves and thereby updates a line in the graph with the mouse. Changed: TruncDateBoundaries property added to TEzPrinter This property controls whether TEzPrinter will trunc the date ranges of the printout to the nearest major scale interval. This was the default behaviour of EzPrinter, but property enables you to disable it. Your printout will normally be smaller when this property is False. Changed: TEzTimescaleStorage component added This component stores multiple scale definitions in a central place. Each TEzTimebar should now be attached to such a storage. Use the storage to predefine different scales like: week, year, day. Then then select the active scale used by your TEzTimebar with it's ScaleIndex property. October 25, 2004, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.1.5: Bug fixed: Gantt chart image gets missaligned after scrolling when scale is set to msWeek. Bug fixed: Vertical lines in gantt chart image get missaligned after scrolling when scale is is changed from days to msWeek. Bug fixed: Cannot compile applications with D6 and version 3.1.4 of EzPlan-IT. October 13, 2004, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.1.4: Various problems solved with printing to large pages. New caching option in TEzGanttChart. This option tells TEzGanttChart to cache all data which will greatly enhance the drawing speed during vertical scroll operations. Various problems solved with scheduler and prepared daterange in availability profile. September 1, 2004, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.0.7: Minor issues solved in EzPlan-IT and EzProject. July 27, 2004, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.0.3: TEzPrintPreview component added. Problem solved with scheduliong tasks that have multiple resources assigned. Version number added to package EzSpecials. Problem solved with using EzPlan-IT package in combination with BCB 6.0. July 21, 2004, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.0 (3.0.2): Drag-and-drop support added to the grid in the project window of EzProject; Order of tasks is now saved into the database The order in which tasks are listed in the project is now saved into the database. The order of tasks can be changed by the user using the mouse. Default cursor can now be sorted. This greatly enhances the speed of loading sorted views because now the data is loaded only once. Previous versions of TEzDataset used a two step approach when sorting data. First the data was loaded into the default cursor and then copied to the active cursor. This second step is no longer required and therefore loading a sorted view only takes half the time. Resource task switching implemented. The new schedule engine can handle task switching. Task switching means that a resource can work on different tasks simultaneously. Task switching can be enabled in the resource properties dialog. Improved support for milestones The scheduler now handles milestones is a proper way. Previous versions did not recognize milestones but simply handled them as any ordinary task. The changed behaviour of the scheduler can best be seen when you schedule a task against a milestone. The milstone indicates when the task must be completed and so a predecessor relation exists between the milestone and the task. The previous version of the scheduler would schedule the task against the milestone as if the task had a 'finish at or before' constraint and so the enddate of the task was set to the milestones date. Now, the scheduler will schedule the task normally thereby verifying that the enddate meets with the milestones date. July 14, 2004, Release of EzPlan-IT 3.0.0 beta: see special page on EzPlan-IT beta 3.0 (here) October 3, 2003, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.8.6: Indent and outdent functions added to EzProject application; Fixed 'record not found bug'; Fixed problem with TEzDelayedIdle component not firing the OnDelayIdle event every time. August 25, 2003, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.8.4: Scheduler can now schedule multiple intervals per task. Each interval is scheduled using the same constraints and after all succeeding intervals. Fixed printing problem under Windows 98 and Windows ME where all succeeding pages were printed as small images. Fixed problem with truncated columns in the grid of the gantt chart window. August 18, 2003, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.8.2: 'Invalid bitmap handle' problem fixed when print preview window was set to a zoom factor of 25%. Column alignment fixed in EzProject. August 1, 2003, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.8.0: EzSpecials is now included with the EzPlan-IT installation. Fixed installation issues with EzPlan-IT and BCB. Fixed problems with printing and computer crashing. Fixed problems with calendar rules: 'last day of the month'. June 19, 2003, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.6.4: Dynamic scheme support Change the appearance of each individual cell in your grids at will. Improved predecessor line drawing Draw abbreviated predecessor lines when the predecessor or successor bar isn't visible. Individual ganttbar selection You can now select individual ganttbars using the mouse. Multiple bars can be selected by pressing the Ctrl-key. May 22, 2003, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.6.0: Scheme support added Multi language support (currently English, Dutch and Italian) Column span support added to TEzDBCoolGrid and TEzDBTreeGrid A cell can now span multiple columns which gives a much clearer picture in grids having parent and child records. Check out our updated EzProject and see what we mean. January 16, 2003, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.4.0: Task locking functionality added to EzProject application. Locking allows you to fix a task at it's current location. A locked task will not be moved when a project is rescheduled. Multi Byte support added to TEzTimebar component. Weeknumber support added to TEzTimebar. EzCalendar component improved and extended with various properties. Various problems solved with form inheritance in combination with TEzDataset and TEzGraph components. Boolean support added to formula parser. You can now write: if(BooleanField, Field1, Field2) December 10, 2002, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.2.4: New record insertion methods: Add and AddChild These methods give better control on the location where a new record gets inserted. Solved: Printing gantt bars would give various results A new printer method fixes the problems we had with printing transparent bitmaps. Packages split into design- and runtime packages This will make your distribution smaller since you no longer have to include the property editors. Delphi 4 and C++ Builder 4 support dropped We no longer support these versions of delphi and C++ Builder. This is the result of switching to Text dfm files which cannot be read by these versions. Prefill parent values when inserting new records TEzDataset now fills the parent reference fields when the record is inserted. This gives a more natural user interface because a user sees where the record will be inserted. Solved: Index out of range error when inserting records into an empty dataset; SlaveMode added to TEzGanttChart SlaveMode ensures correct alignment between records displayed in your TEzDbTreeGrid and the TEzGanttChart. TEzCalendar extended with new properties New properties allow to further control the visual layout of the calandar. November 19, 2002, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.2.1: Solved: Printing of hidden columns could hang application. Solved: Index out of range error when inserting records into an empty dataset; Solved: Repeating rows in TEzDBTreeGrid; November 7, 2002, Release of EzPlan-IT 2.2.0: Two new components: TEzDBCoolGrid, TEzDBTreeGrid; Fixed column support added to grids; Support for day editing in TExtendedTimeField; Better control over the gantt bar visibility by means of new properties; GridLineColors and GridLineWidth properties added to grid components; Bug fix to solve the AV when dragging when the dataset is in edit mode; Bug fix that solves problem of displaying strange data for empty cells; Bug fix for AV when closing projects using EzPlan-IT components; Bug fix for ReadOnly property that would not make the column Read-only. October 1, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 2.0.0: Delphi 7 support; Fix for memory leak under Windows 95/98; Support added for field.NewValue; September 6, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.9.95: Fix for paint problems under Windows 98; Support added for field.OldValue; Problems solved when using printer component with a grid or gantt component only; August 28, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.9.91: Support for Borland's DataSnap technology (TClientDataset's); New calendar component; New graph component; Support for weekly, monthly and yearly recurrance patterns in resource availability profiles; Gantt chart scroll problems solved; EzParser's cache implemented to improve calculation speed; Missing files added to setup (EzProject.mdb, bpl files for BCB versions). August 2, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.9.8: New gantt bar paint functions This version of EzPlan-IT uses a new method for painitng gantt bars, using two bitmaps and a simple rectangle. This gives you the added benefit of using your own bitmaps on the gantt chart. Use our new TEzEndPointList component to add your own endpoints to EzPlan-IT projects. Calendar updated Manage resource availabilty using our new calendar object. Juli 18, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.9.6: Formula parser updated Our new formula parser can now handle international formated floating point values. Int64 support added Our dataset component, TEzDataset, could not handle int64 indexes. This problem has been solved. Synchronize mechanism improved TEzDataset's synchronisation mechanism has been improved which results in faster data access. June 26, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.9.5: Field mapping modified In this release we completely redesigned the way how fields are mapped between the TEzDataset component and the tables it is connected to. Our new design gives complete flexibility on the location where data taken from your tables is presented in the TEzDBGrid component. Formula parser added A new formula parser is added to the EzPlan-IT suite. This parser allows you to define and use formula's right in your TEzDataset components. Formulas can use any field avaible in your dataset, even if this field is part of a parent and/or child record. Line markers The TEzGanttChart component now supports line markers. Line markers are vertical lines drawn at fixed positions on the gantt. You can use these lines to mark certain events on your gantt chart. May 8, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.9.0: Printer component added Print support was a very demanded feature by our customers and our new TEzPrinter component now adds this feature to the EzPlan-IT component suite. Windows XP style added Add the XP-look to your EzPlan-IT apps with the new style properties within our dbgrid and timescale compnents. Overlap detection Our gantt chart can now detect and highlight ganttbars that overlap each other. Using this feature, users are attended to the problems within their schedule. March 18, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.8.0: Snap function added to TEzGanttChart. The TEzGanttChart now supports snapping while dragging bars. Snapping means that either the start or stop date of a bar is rounded to the nearest snap interval. The snap interval can be set to any size. Dynamic ganttbar dragging. New events allow you to change the appearance of a ganttbar during drag operations. Problems solved with our schedule engine. When the scheduler was run multiple times, the results would differ between runs. Under some circumstances, the scheduler would fail completely reporting that some tasks could not be scheduled. January 29, 2002 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.78: Full drag-and-drop support added to the gantt chart: You can now move a task to another parent or link two tasks together simply by dragging the mouse. EzDataset designer: A new designer is added. This designer makes it easy to setup your (hierarchical) data connections. TEzTimebar now supports counting which makes it for example possible to divide your scales into 10 minutes, 4 hours or 5 days intervals. October 12, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.75: This release makes EzPlan-IT available for Delphi 6 and C++ Builder 5. October 10, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.74: Fixed slow performance problems when using a TClientDataset with TEzDataset; Fixed problem with scheduler failing to reschedule a project once the scheduler failed the first time; Changed behavior when scheduling tasks of 0 (zero) duration; Various problems solved with TEzTimebar component. October 1, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.73: Drag and drop support added to our gantt chart component. This allows an user to visually add, link, move and delete tasks in the schedule. New properties give you full control of the actions a user is allowed to take. New predecessor line drawing functions draw cleaner lines giving a improved picture on screen; Improved performance of our dataset components improve drawing speed with large datasets; September 12, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.71: This version comes with a new schedule engine that has been rewritten from scratch. This new engine is fast, effective and stable. EzPlan-IT's grid component was graphically redesigned, a much sharper look is the result; New drawing functions for predecessor lines are added to the TEzGantt component. These functions allow for much more control over the way lines are drawn; June 1, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.61: Support for Delphi 4 and C++ Builder 4; April 4, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.60: Cursor object extended to improve speed of loading data into the TEzDataset object; Scrolling of TEzGanttChart object modified to allow for smoother (horizontal) scrolling; Various memory leaks fixed; TEzGanttCharts' screen cache simplified to a more straightforward design; Various components renamed; TPiTimebar became TEzTimebar; TPiCalendarGrid became TEzCalendarGrid; TPiColorCombobox became TEzColorCombobox; February 20, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.31: 'Availability profile' editor added; New calendar editor added; Resource allocation graph added to the Gantt chart window; Scheduling performance improved; Minor bugs fixed; January 24, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.20: Improved filtering mechanism for filtering records; Scheduling performance improved; Many problems solved with updating records (sometimes records where not updated or data was written to the wrong record); Improved drawing of predecessor lines; Much more... take a look for yourself; January 2, 2001 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.12: Updates to the detail datasets now cause an immediate update of the display; Field editor for duration fields updated to support editing of negative values; Extended error checking to get an better understanding when something goes wrong; EzPlan-IT could raise an exception when opening an empty project, this problem has been solved; December 20, 2000 (version 1.1) Kever-IT finished version 1.1 of EzPlan-IT. This new version has these extra features: The Gantt chart now draws predecessor lines; New cursor functionality enables you to filter records on any condition; Support for Milestones, the Gantt chart now draws a special marker for tasks having a zero duration; Enhanced drawing features for the Gantt chart which gives the display a much greater look; New properties added when specifying the looks of the task bars. September 26, 2000 Release of EzPlan-IT 1.0. THE FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE OF EzPlan-IT..... The internal dataset component now supports the definition of multiple cursors at once. This enables you to create all the required cursors at design time and then switch easily between them at runtime. Cursors are used to maintain the hierarchical structure of your data and determine how records are displayed in EzPlan-IT's grid. A cursor allows you to hide and sort your data. Some minor problems fixed with the cursor component. September 15, 2000 Release of EzPlan-IT 0.990. We consider this to be the final beta release. If you are still looking for that neat feature, let us know now so we can include it with the first official release (expected next month). New cursor component added which is much faster and supports sorting of records using any combination dataset fields; Gantt Chart caching to increase drawing speed of complex Gantt Charts; September5, 2000 Release of EzPlan-IT 0.924, having the following new features Resource usage view added; This new view displays tasks assigned to a certain resource. Detail view option; The Gantt Chart can now display detail gantt bars when a task is collapsed. August 2000 Release of EzPlan-IT, the new 'easier to use version' of Plan-IT, having the following new features Data-awareness; EzPlan-IT adds data-awareness to our existing components so you can connect directly to any database without any extra programming effort; Expand and collapsing of records; Our new data manager allows records to be expanded and collapsed on screen to provide a clear picture on the presented data. May 2000, Plan-IT 0.912 released A new version of Plan-IT is released having some very nice new features: Task highlighting; You can highlight taskbars that meet certain criteria like all tasks using resource 'M1' or tasks that are behind schedule. This function is a great help when solving resource over allocations. Gantt chart time markers; The Gantt chart now shows the current time, project start- and project stop dates. Allocation graph legend; A legend is added to the allocation graph showing which graph lines are displayed and to which resource this line belongs. April 2000 By now we are ready to release our latest version. This release will be a beta version of our software which you can use for testing purposes. We hope you will be enthusiastic about this release and that you provide us with input for new nice to have features which we can then add to Plan-IT. Don't hesitate to drop us an E-mail. 1999 In 1999, Kever-IT released the first version of Plan-IT and meanwhile we have received a lot of reactions from interested developers. Our first release was build using Borland C++ builder and lacked multi user support. This proved to be a great limitation of our system and therefore we decided to start all over again. We switched to Delphi because thats what most of you were asking for. We also added new scheduling features and, last but not least, we created a server module to make the system multi user. We believe that you will find our new release is much more exciting than our previous one.