I have a lot of respect for AMBERV, and highly recommend reading her comments below. A quick guesstimate is that they've been mostly fixes, and eventually 1.5 did bring some new features: In two years, OmniPlan has certainly gone through various improvements. Two years ago I wrote some comments about OmniPlan. People with simple PM needs will probably enjoy OmniPlan, but for the same price there are better, more robust alternatives out there. For now, FastTrack Schedule and Merlin are clearly a better choice, and Merlin costs the same as OmniPlan 2. In terms of features and value I can't rate this higher that 2 stars. No problems with ease of use or stability. I tried the "Scale to Fit Project" option only to discover there's no Undo for this. Merlin offers an additional view (Net Plan). Merlin had a much cleaner view of the project, and this applies to Tasks or Activities, Resources, and Calendar.
It did open the MPP file of the same project, and that was a bit quicker than Merlin. Merlin opened the file in about 2 seconds. Version 2.0.3 was unable to open a MS Project MPX file, both using File>Open and dragging the file to OmniPlan. "Also new and notable! We’re getting started on multi-project support." Fortunately, the Omni people addresed this issue in a recent () blog post: If asking a simple question resulted in frowny faces, no doubt my review will be unpopular among the fanboyz.
Scheduling - Hammock task now round to whole days as expected in projects set to daily scheduling granularity.Scheduling - One hour tasks are now scheduled as expected over standard to daylight savings time changeover.Localization - Opted out of macOS Monterey’s keyboard shortcut localizing so keyboard shortcuts are consistent with past versions for all keyboard layouts.Leveling - ALAP milestones in a forward project now level correctly.Leveling - Fixed a bug that could cause leveling to repeatedly split and merge partially completed tasks.Leveling - Resource leveling no longer gives up on scheduling long sequences of as-late-as-possible tasks that end up determining the project end date in projects scheduled from a fixed start.Leveling - Leveling a "Adjust Assigned Amounts" task that is assigned to multiple resources no longer over assigns units to resources with less than 100% unit availability (previously, OmniPlan split the assigned amount evenly across all assigned resources, regardless of individual resource availability).Leveling - Fixed a bug that could cause resource start dates to interfere with accurately scheduling tasks set to "Task progress requires: Any of the assigned resources.".
Leveling - Leveling no longer unassigns resources assigned to manually scheduled tasks.Export - Fixed a bug that prevented successfully exporting "Task Outline Only" from Resource View.Export - Nested rows are no longer blank when exporting only the task outline from Outline or Resource View.iCloud - OmniPlan iCloud folder now reliably displays in Finder.Printing - Projects now always print with a white background and black text, regardless of current theme.For more detail, see the Omni Automation Release Notes (available in the Automation API Reference via the Automation menu in the menu bar). Omni Automation - Omni Automation improvements.Omni Account - Closing an Omni Account can now be initiated via the Omni Account window.Leveling - A warning is now presented when leveling could cause a hammock task to stretch endlessly due to an assigned resource that is also in the dependency chain for the hammock’s end date.Leveling - Improved leveling logic related to resource availability.This is useful for automatically assigning an available conference room from a resource group of conference rooms, for example. Leveling - Leveling now supports assigning a resource group that contains only equipment resources with 0% efficiency (previously this would trigger a "no dependency chain available" violation).OmniPlan 4 is now localized in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish on all platforms. OmniPlan 4.4 improves OmniPlan’s leveling and scheduling logic on all platforms, and introduces localizations on iPad and iPhone.
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