What's new in LogFramer 3.1
Feb 8, 2018
- Addition of the Spanish user interface
- Modified Project Information Window to improve visibility and navigation on smaller (laptop) screens
- Bug fixes
- Logframer freezes when the window is minimised
- Error occurs when adding a new indicator
- Error occurs when adding a new assumption
- When closing the application, Logframer doesn't ask if you want to save your changes
- When the project is already saved to a file but the project title or short title aren't yet known then Logframer presents the 'Save as' dialog when you click to save
- Auto-save feature doesn't work
- Error when exporting to IATI if certain information isn't completed
- Error when exporting reports to Excel
- Error when importing a partial logframe (certain columns/sections only)
New in LogFramer 3.0 (May 21, 2017)
- Support to International Aid Transparency Initiative
- Ability to create IATI activity files
- Ability to create IATI organisation files
- Ability to read and edit existing IATI files
- Integration of four view modes (Basic, Advanced, IATI activity and IATI organisation mode)
- Addition of German user interface
- New Reports toolbar
- Possibility to indicate location of partner organisations, intervention zones and target groups on interactive Bing Maps™
- Additions to Project information window:
- Project lifecycle
- Narrative description of project and context; indication of activity sectors
- Intervention zones
- Funding sources; management of donors, budget lines and calls for proposals; overview of financial transactions
- Additional IATI specific information to identify project and describe aid streams
- New Expenses window (for IATI organisation file)
- Ability to store information about your organisation in a separate file and use it in each (new) project
- Possibility to translate text in different languages (project title and description, content of logframe, planning and budget, etc.)
- Improved print headers and footers with ability to include your organisation's logo and contact information as well as the title of the project
- Additional reports (printing):
- Expenses overview (IATI organisation only)
- Target groups with maps
- Intervention zones with maps
- New reports which can be exported to MS Excel:
- Target groups with maps
- Intervention zones with maps
New in LogFramer 2.0 (Dec 12, 2016)
- New Project information window with title, duration, overview of target groups, monitoring and evaluation planning (of indicators and risks) and partners and contacts
- Improved logical framework:
- Ability to show/hide sections as well as columns
- Ability to work with individual activities as well as processes with sub-activities (unlimited sub-levels)
- Ability to add sub-indicators to indicators (unlimited sub-levels)
- 17 different types of indicators
- Inclusion of baseline and multi-year targets (only one target possible in previous versions)
- Assumptions column with RAID typology: add Risks, Assumptions and Dependencies
- Resources can be linked to various budget itemsl. Allows calculation of (approx.) budget needed for each activity and output.
- Dynamic Planning window that allows to add and modify key moments, processes and activities in a Gantt chart (MS Project style). Replaces the previous static Planning window that only served to give an overview but didn't allow any modifications
- New Budget window that allows the design of simple and multi-year budgets
- New and improved tools:
- Automatic generation of Monitoring tool
- Improved risk register
- Budget templates
- New Microsoft Office-style ribbon
- Multi-document interface, allowing to open more than one project at a time.
- Office-style copy/paste ribbon and ability to copy text from other applications
- Collaboration tools: contact people via mail, e-mail or Skype
- Ability to import budgets made in MS Excel
- Improved performance in general interface (rendering) and print previews
- Interface in English, French and Dutch
- Reviewed undo/redo mechanism
- Complete review of code
New in LogFramer 1.3 (Nov 18, 2014)
- Import logframes from MS Word documents
- Export reports to MS Word documents with a wizard that allows you to import a
- report at the beginning/end of a document or after a bookmark.
- Export new reports to MS Word documents:
- The table of resources
- The project's planning
- The list of partner organisations
- The target group identification forms
- Autosave feature
New in LogFramer 1.2 (Jun 5, 2014)
- New features in this version:
- New and improved print and print preview window, with uniform print options
- Improved performance of the user interface, with the choice between more accurate or faster rendering
- Find contact (person/organization) tool, also with the ability to search by address, telephone number, etc.
- Importing of logframes from MS Excel workbooks: new and improved function replacing the (buggy) previous version
- Launch Logframer directly by double-clicking a document's icon
New in LogFramer 1.1 (Nov 1, 2013)
- Bilingual interface - select between French or English user interface
- Powerful find and replace tool - search your logframe and the various windows with detailed information for specific words and replace them if necessary
- Recent files list - quickly select a logframer document that you've opened recently
- More control over the lay-out of your logframe - choose the font and colour of the titles etc
- Increased number of options for the scheme of your project logic column
- Launch Logframer directly by double-clicking a document's icon
- Improved stability