BluePrint 2 Notes

© 1998 Sine of the Times



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January 27th, 1998



Notes for demo users:



1.  This version expires March 1st, 1999.



2.  When you install the new demo, any previous projects created with the older

demo are removed.  If you want to keep your old projects, you need to upgrade

to the full version of BluePrint 2.





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Release 15.0:



- user auto-summary feature added (you can create your "roll-up" fields now for

numeric columns)

- copy project feature added

- release version info added



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Release 10.3:



- gantt chart timescale offset problems corrected for weeks and days

- gantt chart now works on a full day (from 0 hours to 2359 hours)



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Release 10.2:



- printing problems fixed



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Release 10:



Features added:



- added "in progress" alert reminder.  For new projects, or first time upgraders

to BluePrint 2.10, this will be set to ON in the alert editor.  For 

users of the beta, this option will be initially OFF.



- you can now edit alerts from the alerts window



- alarms for Overdue and In Progress tasks are set to go off at 9 am each

morning (eventually the time will become a preference you can set)



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Release 10beta:



Features added:



- automatic recalcuation for imported projects (for both BluePort and

BluePrint 1.9x projects)



- new Alerts & Alarms system is similar to our old BlueStart program



In BluePrint 2, alerts & alarms are integrated into the system.  There is a

new field automatically added to all your projects which lets you set an

alert or/and an alarm for each task to remind you when it is Starting,

Finishing, or Overdue (or a combination of all three).  This field is added

to the end of all your other fields.



Alerts are reported in a new "Alerts" view - which shows you tasks which are

Starting, Finishing, or Overdue on today's date.  This allows you to do

daily task management much easier.  You can edit tasks directly from this

new view as well - the alerts view is dynamic.



Alarms, are real Newton alarms - which act like an alarm clock turning on

the Newton and beeping like crazy.  (They can be set loud enough to get you

out of a meeting :)  You can even snooze the alarms !



One note about alarms: they are set (or removed) when you *close* BluePrint

2.  Thus, you *must* close BluePrint 2 for the Alarm Manager to run.



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Release 5:



Features added:



- now imports BluePrint 1.9x projects

	- does not support resources, relations, cost information, notes or logs

- Recalculate all (ie. recalculate the timeline)





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Release 2:



Documents

- For a tutorial read "Guide.html" in the documents folder

- For a full feature specification, read "Index.html"





Features added:

- Remote project invocation for BluePort added

- Remote task invocation for BluePort added

- Remote invocation for BluePrint added





Problems Fixed:

- notes creation was problematic, sometimes overriding the name of the next task

- note lookup was also sometimes incorrect, because it was not set on the tasks

id

- summary tasks were not always being updated if a child task had a dependency

and had changed





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Known problems:



- You can only print Project Overviews in the "Print Now" mode



- deleting Notes created by BluePrint 2 sometimes cannot be deleted

without a reset of your Newton.  This does not occur with only Blueprint

2 installed, so we're assuming a conflict somewhere.



- This version uses a special soup manager, which does not work on 3-5%

of all Newtons.  If your Newton responds with "this is not a package"

when you install, then unfortunately you are one of the few.  There is

*no* demo version for these Newtons.  The full version will work on all

Newtons.



- Foreign locales are not officially supported - though BluePrint 2

should work acceptably on all Newtons









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For demo users, purchasing BluePrint 2:



- You can purchase BluePrint 2 through our website for $79.95

- REMEMBER: you must register with us asap to get free updates and support