New Project.net 9.0 Features

General

  • New user interface design and layout means fewer clicks and a UI that pulls people into the application.
  • Personal, project and object blogs
  • MediaWiki-compatible wiki
  • See Skype status and initiate Skype chats from within Project.net
  • Project.net informs system administrators if there is a newer version
  • Extensive on-line help pages and a new User Guide (under construction) at Project.net On-line Documentation.

Project

  • Improved project dashboards
  • Capture key project information in the project's wiki - Version 9.0 includes a Wiki integrated with assignments and projects to track the current state of projects, and provide an incubator for ideas and solutions for project success.
  • Project blog with task entries, capture your progress in a blog entry as you record your work, plus receive feedback as responses to those entries. Easily see the activity of a project by scanning its blog.
  • User control over what information is shown in the work plan, add/remove and organize the columns
  • Ability to assign a task to someone and track that assignment
  • Import and export of project schedules in MS Project XML format
  • Additional project properties
  • User control over what is shown on the project portfolio page, design your own views

Personal dashboard

  • Improved personal assignments page - see all of your assigned tasks in one place across businesses and projects
  • Personal profile improvements, including personal blog
  • Each user has his or her own working time calendar for holidays or a custom work week

Resource Management Module

  • See who is working on what across projects
  • Allocate a resource to a project

Forms

  • A form record can be assigned to a person and appear on his or her task list
    • Track progress against this assigned form task
  • Non-Project.net users can submit form records from outside Project.net
  • Form definitions can be saved and loaded into any project

Workflows

  • Improved look and feel of workflow envelope page
  • A new option to place a form record in a work flow envelope at any time augments the current automatic method
  • Phase deliverables can be placed in a workflow envelope at any time.
  • Workflow envelopes in a workflow can be canceled at any time.

Document vault

  • Option to uploaded a single zip file and unpack into individual files

Calendar

  • iCalendar support

Miscellaneous

  • Switch to GPL v3, we feel this license best suits the construction of the world's best project and portfolio management application. Customers who require a different license can obtain a commercial license from Project.net Inc.
  • Version 9.0 and beyond will no longer support BEA Weblogic

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