IMPORTANT INFORMATION ===================== !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! Before unzipping the application files in PRODUCT.ZIP ! ! please read LICENS.TXT. ! ! You must not unzip PRODUCT.ZIP only if you do not ! ! agree with the contents of LICENS.TXT ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ordering -------- Please see below Installation ------------ Please see INSTALL.TXT. Features and Performance ------------------------ Please see FEATURES.TXT Description ----------- Please see MANUAL.TXT Printing -------- Please see PRINTING.TXT HTML-Export ----------- HTML.TXT Manual ------ We ship a 72 page printed manual on registration. The manual is available in English or German language (please specify). ----------------------------------------------------------- | Warning!!!!!!! | | When used without a registration number the following | | restrictions apply: | | 1. Number of activities in one file restricted to 15 | | 2. Number of milestones in one file restricted to 4 | ----------------------------------------------------------- Registration ------------ You can register through RegNet. ProPoc LITE US$34.95 ProPoc PROF US$49.95 RegNet - The Registration Network: ProPoc LITE: RegNet #: 1490 ProPoc PROF RegNet #: 1491 RegNet can be reached on the World Wide Web at the following URL: http://www.swregnet.com or by calling 1 800 WWW2REG (1 800 999-2734) or (805) 288-1827. -------------------------------- Entering the registration number -------------------------------- Press MENU, / , ENTER, ENTER then enter first name and the registration number. Note: The entered name must be part of the machines owner name. The registration number must be issued on the entered name. Updates ------- Updated versions can be downloaded from http://www.online.de/home/lichtbild Author contact -------------- bdaum@online.de ProPoc Version 2.4x - Release Notes ================================== Program Description ------------------- ProPoc is a project planner. It can handle multiple projects, activities, milestones, and resources. Activities and milestones can depend on the completion of other activities. Activities can share resources, even between different projects. ProPoc determines the StartDate and EndDate of each activity, the ActualDate of each Milestone, the number of slack days, and if a activity or milestone is critical. The results are displayed in graphical or table form on screen or can be printed in ASCII- or WORD-form (tables). The Professional version allows output to SPREADSHEET and AGENDA, too. For a detailed comparison between PROPOC V2 LITE and PROPOC V2 PROF see FEATURES.TXT . Platforms --------- ProPoc LITE runs on PSION S3/S3a/S3c/Siena and Acorn PocketBook I & II. ProPoc PROF runs only on S3a/S3c and Acorn Pocket Book II. ProPoc can also run on the S3a-emulator where it can use screen sizes up to 640x400. ( Set SERVER_PARAMS -X640 -Y400 -D in HCSERVER.PAR for the big screen) Requirements ------------ ProPoc LITE: The disk space requirements are 102-160k depending on the options. ProPoc PROF: The disk space requirements are 156-292k depending on the options. When active, the system requires a minimum of about 40k main memory. Some functions can require considerable more memory. We recommend to install the system on flash SSD, the PROJ folder (data drive) on the internal disk or on RAM SSD. New in Version 2.43 ------------------- - One dialogue step less in the Unlink function, if there is only one prerequisite. - Gantt mode now supports a split screen (resource schedule and cashflow analysis). - The resource summary in project statistics is now shown as scrollable report box. Use PSION-H to view a detailed resource schedule. - Print function: A new format "custom report" prints project in task data in report style, but controlled by the table definition. - Preferences, Table Definition: There is now a copy function for tables, for instance copy screen table to WORD table. Some more attributes were added. Attributes in parenthesis apply only to custom reports but not to tables. - German version: Hotkeys PSION-Shift-A, PSION-Shift-K, and PSION-Shift-G swapped. New in Version 2.41 ------------------- - Cosmetic changes to HTML-export New in Version 2.40 ------------------- - The condensed screen mode has been replaced GANTT mode. GANTT mode is also supported by both bitmap and semigraphical diagram printing. - (PROF) The hotkey for Agenda call has been changed from PSION-Shift-G to PSION-Shift-C (English version). - In inconsistency in the user interface has been removed: Subdialogues (for instance in "Edit task") are now always invoked with the TAB key (instead of Enter). - Variable scaling is possible in both normal and GANTT mode. Press "+" or "-" to stretch/shrink in horizontal direction (this works on top of the Zoom function). - (PROF) Resource schedules (task lists) can now be exported (Save as) as an Agenda file. This will always create a new Agenda file with the entries stored in a ToDo-List (named with the resource name). Style and alarm settings are taken from the settings in Preferences|Alarm/Agenda and the project definitions. You can merge this file into your main Agenda file by using the AGENDA's merge function. - Printing functions to printer, text file and WORD file have been revised. (PROF) The standard headers and footers can be customized (second screen after printer setup). The usual variables can be used in header and footer %F file name %P page number %D date %T time %% single % character When printing to WORD file, headers and footers go into the WORD headers and footers. The same variables can be used in headers and footers for HTML-output (page number is replaced by page name). - (PROF) Project and task descriptions can now be optionally exported to spreadsheet and HTML, when using "Save as" from a report box. - (PROF) A new option for HTML-Export allows to inhibit the output of costs and budgets. - (PROF) Output to HTML is now controlled by a template file which can be customized by the user (see HTML.TXT for details). - (PROF) It is now possible to use master files with a larger time base. For instance a day based file can be used as a master file for a minute based file. - (PROF) ProPoc is now more tolerant against time axis overflows, which can happen when the time base was set to hours or minutes. If a resource caused the overflow, ProPoc will indicate which resource caused the problem. You should then review the resource workload and resource calendar to remedy the problem. Otherwise ProPoc switches to table mode, and you should delete or shorten tasks, until the problem vanishes. - significant performance improvements for table display. - ProPoc now skips unnecessary screen redraw operations. (For instance during quick sequences of cursor keys, diamond key, + or -). This allows faster navigation. - (LITE) ProPoc LITE now supports PSION Siena. Because of screen size some menu function titles are abbreviated. - ProPoc accepts no longer project files from ProPoc V1. New in Version 2.33 ------------------- - (Prof) New menu function "Split" splits task into two and links the parts. New in Version 2.32 ------------------- - (Prof) When jumping to the Agenda you can now force ProPoc to update the Agenda entries first, provided project data has changed. It is now possible to perform Agenda jumps on items that have not been exported to the agenda. ProPoc will use the start date of the item, then. - (Prof) The Year symbol is not longer used to identify a project file in the Agenda. Instead, a new file ID is used (default value = file name). Optionally an S3c-entry code can be defined. On S3a this is used as year symbol. - (Prof) All changes to alarm preferences (style, sound, alarm time, prewarn time, entry code) are now carried through to existing agenda entries. New in Version 2.30 ------------------- - A new report type in the resource schedule: Cost: lists the resource cost per task (in outline mode per project). to allow for better cost/resource tracking. As other reports, this report can be printed or exported to spreadsheet, too. - Resource schedule lists now show which tasks are critical or completed. critical: bold, completed: strike through, absent: italic. - (PROF) Export to HTML An optional module allows to create HTML documents containing descriptions of projects, tasks, and resource. These files can be viewed on PC, Mac, or UNIX with HTML-Browsers, or can be published to World-Wide-Web or intranets. To output to HTML, invoke the "Save as" function and select HTML. Then select the output directory and options. ProPoc will do the rest. - the active filters (show,but only) are now applied to print-outs, too. New in Version 2.25 ------------------- - Task duration The duration can now be entered as a formula. Or press ENTER on the duration line to specify the duration as a from-to interval. Note, that the entered interval is only a convenient way to specify the number of workdays and has nothing to do with task start and end dates. - Enter resource workloads as formulae Enter expressions such as 3/16% (3 days of 16) to compute the percent value of resource workloads. - New option in Preferences, View The new option controls cueing, the display of task attributes as the cursor is moved. You can now choose to display the task type, the task description or nothing. New in Version 2.20 ------------------- - Automatic link proposal When switched on (Preferences-Mode) and the cursor is placed on an elementary task and you insert a new elementary task, ProPoc will automatically propose a link to the task at the cursor position. This is to allow speedy definition of task sequences. - In table mode items can now be sorted along various attributs in descending or ascending direction. To define the sort criterion, go to Preferencec-Define Table. Differing sort criteria are possible for different tables (Screen, Printer, Text, Word) and are saved and loaded with table styles. - Resource calendar entries can now describe part time week patterns. To create an entry with a week pattern, insert a new entry, select "Part time = yes". In the following screen define the week pattern. New in Version 2.15 ------------------- - New Agenda link provides seamless integration with Agenda. All Agenda entries created by ProPoc are now hotlinked with the corresponding ProPoc tasks: Press PSION-Shift-G to jump to the Agenda. And in the opposite direction: While in the Agenda press an application button assigned to ProPoc to jump to the corresponding ProPoc task. The layout of Agenda entries has changed. You can now define separate sets of attributes to critical and uncritical tasks. These attributes will be updated in the Agenda when the project changes and tasks become critical or are no longer critical. !!! Note !!! Because of the changed layout, Agenda entries from older ProPoc versions are not longer recognised. This can result in duplicate entries. - The PSION-TAB key combination to call HyperPoc has been replaced by the menu function PSION-Shift-Y. To return from HyperPoc to ProPoc press Shift-System or the application button assigned to ProPoc. New in version 2.10 ------------------- - Table styles (Preferences) Load/save current the table setup from/to file. A table style includes all table definitions (Screen/Printer/Textfile/Wordfile in Outline/Detail mode), the table font, and all filter settings (PROF). Table style files are stored in the same directory as the project files and have the extension .PRS. Table style files can be used and reused from any project file. Example table styles: Normal.prs Normal setting (to reset tables) Finance.prs financial overview Crit.prs overview about critical tasks (PROF) - Summary tasks (PROF) Create a summary task with the insert function. To create a new task within the summary task place the cursor on the summary task or on a task within the summary task and use the insert function. To move a task into a summary task, use the Link function. Place the cursor on the task you want to move, invoke the Link function and navigate to the target summary task. Then press ENTER. ProPoc will automatically update WBS numbers. To move a task out of any summary task, use the Unlink function. You can nest summary tasks. There is not really a limit to the depth of nesting, but we suggest to use not more than 5 levels. You can restrict the displayed level of detail for each display mode separately (Preferences, View, Show parameter). Warning: If you delete a summary task, only the summary task will be saved into the clipboard, not its contents! New in version 2.04 ------------------- - New printing options - Landscape format supported on some printers - Number of copies can be specified - collated/uncollated on some printers - detection of printer time out (out of paper, etc.) - MPX-support for German version of MS Project added (PROF). This module is in beta status. Comments and help welcome. MPX-export indicates now code page 850 for correct code translation by the importing application. MPX-import will now translate ANSI-code (WINDOWS) into code page 850 (PSION). - We have dropped the requirement that task names must be unique through the whole file. Now task names must only be unique within the same project. This has consequences for attached documents. Documents are identified by the task name. This allows you to use the same document for different, but identical named tasks. However, you can force documents to be identified with a unique task ID by including a special character (other than letter, numeric digit, or underscore) into the task name. End of document ---------------