What's new in TimePanic FE 5.1 Build 1031
Mar 9, 2019
- Fixed: The option Minimize application after saving did not allow to show it again, it stayed minimized (customer request).
- Fixed: Build 1809 of Windows 10 causes a previously dormant programming error in TimePanic to suddenly manifest itself: Under random circumstances, selected time entries in the TimePanic day view are either rejected with the error message "Invalid DateTime", or they are unexpectedly rounded in some fashion (customer request).
- Fixed: Under certain circumstances, the calculations of the Days property tab in the year view were off by a factor of 100 (customer request). This could be reproduced as follows: In the year view, select all the days, go to the menu "Edit / Properties of the Year", switch to the Colors tab, close the properties. Open them again and switch back to the Days tab. Check out for example the line "Regular workings days".
- Fixed: Reminders are now disabled when the screen is locked to avoid premature reminders (customer request).
- Minor improvement: The duration of an activity in the day view is no longer read-only, it can be changed directly (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 5.1 Build 1024 (Sep 18, 2017)
- Build 1024 fixes a bug:
- Fixed: The in-place drop-down lists in the day view were not keyboard-usable anymore. This problem was introduced in version 5.1 (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 5.1 Build 1023 (Jul 10, 2017)
- TimePanic is now compatible with higher DPI settings, greater than 100%. The DPI setting (dots per inch) is a display parameter you can change in the Windows Control Panel. In particular, TimePanic is now compatible with 4K monitors, for which the DPI setting is typically set to 200% for normal readability.
- TimePanic now includes large versions of all icons. This is how the icons are used at different DPI settings:
- 100%: The old icons are used.
- 200%: The new large icons are used. On a 4K monitor, these icons have the same size as on a regular monitor but look twice as sharp.
- Other settings: The icons are scaled to match the required DPI setting. Scaled icons are less sharp than the original icons.
New in TimePanic FE 5.0 Build 1006 (Mar 20, 2017)
- Fixed: TimePanic crashes when started with a collapsed calendar in the day view (customer request). This bug was introduced in the previous patch.
- Fixed: The resume command does not work as intended when used on previous days (customer request). This bug, too, was introduced in the previous patch.
- Fixed: Under rare circumstances, TimePanic crashes sporadically when a report is generated. Under Windows 10, though, this type of crash may occur much more frequently (customer request). This bug crept in with version 4.5.
New in TimePanic FE 5.0 Build 1002 (Mar 6, 2017)
- Usability: Context menus now look better when using the new flat designs Light and Dark.
- Fixed: In the activity properties dialog, selecting a work type was not possible using the button with the three dots (customer request).
- Fixed: The warning intended to prevent the user from inadvertently modifying a past of future day now appears less frequently and is better targeted (customer request).
- New Feature: The calendar in the day view now highlights special days such as leave days or weekends, leveraging the same color codes as the year view (customer request). This function can be disabled in the options.
- Usability: TimePanic now avoids a common problem related to the use of multiple monitors (customer request).
- Minor improvement: Again, 10 more icons have been added to the list of standard work type icons.
- New Feature: Automatic pause detection can now be used independently of reminders. Use case: If you inadvertently close a reminder window, you can always consult the list of detected pauses of the current day.
- Minor improvement: The new setting First week of the year allows to control how calendar weeks are calculated (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 5.0 Build 964 (Apr 15, 2016)
- Fixed: Weekend days whose planned working times were set to 0 hours could not be marked as annual leave days or sick leave days (customer request).
- Usability: The Data tab of the export wizard has been rewritten. In particular it now allows rearranging fields by drag & drop. Also, the export wizard can now be resized.
- Fixed: Creating a report filter for activities without a collaboration type was not possible (customer request).
- Fixed: The application crashes when editing an activity without work type and switching to the "Unstructured Data" tab (customer request).
- Fixed: The application crashes when creating a new report while the favorites tab is hidden (customer request).
- Minor improvement: Again, 10 more icons have been added to the list of standard work type icons.
New in TimePanic FE 5.0 Build 951 (Apr 8, 2016)
- Major improvements:
- The TimePanic user interface now supports the flat design Light. The old themes are still available and can be activated in the Options.
- Build 951 fixes several smaller bugs (not detailed), two major bugs and improves usability:
- Fixed: The week numbers shown in the calendar of the day view were incorrect in many countries (customer request).
- Simplification: The new setting Ignore current project makes it easier to control the current project feature (customer request).
- Usability: Where possible, drop-down lists now display the icons of the items they contain.
- Simplification : The tab allowing to create temporary reports without a name has been removed from the report wizard.
- Fixed: If you have not enabled auto-save, the save confirmation dialog loses unsaved data of the previous day when starting the computer from sleep or hibernate mode the next day (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 5.0 Build 933 (Jan 6, 2016)
- Note for users of previous TimePanic versions:
- Please note that the new TimePanic version stores its data in a format that is incompatible with previous TimePanic versions. In other words, once you have started the new version, you cannot uninstall TimePanic and reinstall a previous version.
- Major improvements:
- The TimePanic user interface now supports the Light flat design. The old themes are still available and can be activated in the options.
- Changed Features:
- New style: The images of all work types, which are mainly used for favorite activities, have been modernized. Custom images now require a different file type. There is however an option to return to the previous style.
- Simplification: The work type is no longer mandatory in activities. The work type Open no longer exists in new installations.
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 884 (Oct 6, 2015)
- Fixed: On high DPI screens, the reminder dialogs did not display correctly and were unusable (customer request).
- Fixed: Changing activities in a multi-user report did not work (customer request).
- Fixed: Since build 879, copy & paste of reports was incomplete: the selected columns were missing (customer request).
- Fixed: Since build 879, inverting flag filters in reports did not work any more (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 879 (May 4, 2015)
- Fixed: Sorting reports cleared all selections (customer request).
- Fixed: Hiding toolbars is no longer possible in dialogs where there is no way to make them visible again (customer request).
- Fixed: Searching for activities in the day view and the year view did not work any more (customer request).
- Fixed: The setting Use formats from the global options dialog was not saved (customer request).
- Usability: Ctrl+A now selects all activities in the day view.
- Usability: In-place creation of new projects, work types and collaboration types can now be disabled (customer request).
- Usability: Limiting the duration displayed in the status bar to the selected activities can now be disabled (customer request).
- Internal changes: New build computer, new version of Visual Studio, new version of external UI library.
- The TimePanic data API has been updated to Visual Studio Community 2013.
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 865 (Jan 3, 2015)
- Usability: Renaming of items in the side panel can now be cancelled with the ESC key (customer request).
- Usability: In previous versions, it was not possible to delete the last favorite activity or report in a side pane tab. This limitation has been lifted (customer request).
- Fixed: Under certain circumstances, the year view and the calendar in the day view had font scaling problems (customer request).
- Fixed: The action Finalize Last Activity in the notification area menu only worked if the day view was active.
- Fixed: Empty reports contained a single empty entry (rather than no entry) under certain circumstances.
- Dropped features: The commands New from Selected Activity and New from Current Report have been removed.
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 854 (Nov 15, 2014)
- Fixed: Titles and comments were converted to upper case in reports if filters were applied to them (customer request).
- Fixed: The specified start and end date in a search was ignored under certain circumstances (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 852 (Nov 3, 2014)
- Usability: The automatic start of TimePanic can now be disabled in the options (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 846 (Oct 2, 2014)
- Fixed: As a result of introducing enhanced in-place editing of activities in build 809, the mouse wheel no longer worked in the drop-down lists (customer request).
- Fixed: Automatic reloading of favorite activities changed by TimePanic Sync did not work any more.
- Simplified: The Directories tab has been redesigned to make it easier to use for new users. The previous version it still available by clicking on avanced settings.
- Usability: The two new functions Export to File and Import from File in the report view make it easier for users to exchange favorite reports (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 832 (Sep 2, 2014)
- Usability: To the right of the current project drop-down list you will now find a button for opening the Manage Projects window (customer request).
- Usability: The status bar of the day view now shows the sum of the selected activities. Previously, the selection was not taken into account (customer request).
- Usability: It is now possible to delete entries from the the drop-down list of recently used activity titles in the day view using the DEL key, but only after having selected an item using the arrow keys (customer request).
- Downgrade: TimePanic is now able to warn the user if he tries to load report definitions created with a newer and incompatible version of TimePanic.
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 823 (Aug 18, 2014)
- Fixed: Grouping by projects did not work correctly in build 813 (customer request).
- Improved: It is now easier to move the reminder windows to the corner of the screen: Dragging a reminder window (or the main window) close to the edges of the screen will make it snap automatically to the edges.
- Simplified: The two report tabs Flag Filters and Activitiy Filters have been replaced by the new Filters tab. This will also make it easier to add more types of filters in future versions.
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 813 (Jul 3, 2014)
- The application crashes on some systems when using in-place editing of activities (customer request).
- The color scheme (blue, silver or black) is now also applied inside dialogs. This can be disabled in the options.
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 809 (Jun 30, 2014)
- To create a new project, work type or collaboration type, it now suffices to type its name directly into an activity of the day view (customer request).
- Editing the title of an activity now offers a list of recently used titles.
New in TimePanic FE 4.6 Build 800 (Jun 5, 2014)
- Minor improvements:
- The setup now supports a per-user installation into the user-specific application folder. In previous versions, TimePanic was always installed to the program files folder.
- The demo data have been updated to represent a more recent year.
- Bug fixes:
- Changing the selected columns in the export wizard did not work (customer request).
- During uninstall, the window that prompts you for deletion of your time tracking data no longer appears in the background.
- Major improvements - The setup program has been rewritten and offers the following improvements:
- The location of the time tracking data can be specified during setup (customer request).
- TimePanic now supports silent installations (customer request).
- Patches (newer builds of the same version) can now be applied without uninstalling the previous version first (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.5 Build 755 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Fixed: Sorting in data view is lost when switching to print view (customer request).
- Fixed: Day comments are incorrectly processed in reports (customer request).
- Fixed: If automatic time adjustment is off, activities created on previous days can have the wrong date internally if the current day does not contain any activities yet (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.5 Build 750 (Feb 10, 2014)
- New: Favorite reports can be sorted (customer request).
- Fixed: The internal ids of report descriptors were not always unique.
- Fixed: In the report view, the status bar displayed incorrect sums in case of multiple levels, arranged as a flat list (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.4 Build 660 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Fixed: The placeholder menu Today's Date inserted the wrong place holder (customer request). This only applied to the English version.
- New: Favorite activities can be sorted (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.4 Build 655 (Feb 10, 2014)
- New: A new function in the day view allows to select, as start time or end time of an activity, the computer start time (customer request). For users without Windows domain, the user's login time can also be selected.
- New: For the first activity of a day, a lead time can be specified (customer request).
- Fixed: When waking your computer from hibernation or stand by, the keyboard shortcuts did not work any more (customer request).
- Fixed: The Colors tab in the year view was always empty.
- New: The Replace command now supports multiple selection.
- New: The notification area menu now includes the command Finalize Last Activity (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.4 Build 649 (Oct 31, 2010)
- New features:
- TimePanic now supports partial free days, for example half day holidays or two hours of sick leave (customer request). (only available in the commercial versions)
- Changed features:
- In previous versions, two-colored days in the year view were used to display free days containing activities. As of this version, two-colored days are used for partial holidays and partial leave days.
- Some of the numbers shown in reports (such as the number of annual leave days) can now have decimal places.
- The minimal decimal resolution of the duration format has been changed back from 0.05 to 0.01 (customer request).
- The option automatically compensate for rounding errors is now enabled by default in new reports. It is now also available in TimePanic FE (the freeware edition).
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: In some types of reports, sorting did not work properly (customer request).
- Fixed: Copying days in the year view did not work properly for days that extended beyond midnight.
- Fixed: Grouping activities by quarters and half years did not work properly in matrix mode.
- Fixed: The command Flag Activities of the Report did not work (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.2 Build 615 (Jun 22, 2010)
- Fixed: Changing the flags of an activity by means of the F11 key or the F12 key always adjusted the times, even if automatic time adjustment was off (customer request).
New in TimePanic FE 4.2 Build 614 (May 13, 2010)
- Fixed: Starting a new activity by clicking on a favorite activity caused the activity list to flicker (customer request).
- Fixed: In some reports, the calculated amount was missing (customer request). (only available in the commercial versions)
New in TimePanic FE 4.2 Build 612 (May 13, 2010)
- Under Windows 7, if TimePanic is minimized to the task bar, the "Do you want to save your changes" dialog, which is displayed when shutting down Windows, remains invisible and locks the application (customer request).
- When a report in matrix mode is saved from the data view to a text file, the column headers are exported incorrectly: The generic name is used instead of the column names visible in the report view (customer request).
- The option late rounding in status bar now also applies to the TimePanic title when running minimized in the task bar (customer request). (only available in the commercial versions)
- Under certain circumstances, the license key (and other user preferences) were not saved when closing the Windows session (custom request). Time tracking data were not affected.
New in TimePanic FE 4.2 Build 606 (Nov 29, 2009)
New in TimePanic FE 4.1 (May 7, 2009)
- The user interface now follows the color scheme of Microsoft Office 2007.
- In-place editing of activities is now possible.
- Activities no longer have to be contiguous.
- Many more usability improvements.