LogFramer Changelog

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