What's new in TimePanic for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 5.0 Build 951 (Apr 15, 2016)
- 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).
- Minor improvement: 10 more icons have been added to the list of standard work type icons.
New in TimePanic for USB Drives 5.0 Build 933 (Jan 8, 2016)
- 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. Also, you cannot share your data with other users who continue to use a version of TimePanic earlier than version 5.0.
- Major improvements:
- The TimePanic user interface now supports the two flat designs Light and Dark. 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 data API, a C#-based programming interface, is now included as an optional component. If you select this component in the setup wizard, you will find it in the installation folder as a file named API\tipapi.zip.
- 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.
- The keyboard shortcut to show the main window only worked when the day view was active (customer request).
- Major improvements:
- Collaboration types can now be created, modified and deleted (customer request).
- 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).
- The license key can be entered 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 for USB Drives 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: A rounding problem can lead to very small differences when processing hourly rates (customer request). For example, 1 hour of work at an hourly rate of $ 50.01 incorrectly evaluates to $ 50.00.
- 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 for USB Drives 4.5 Build 751 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Fixed: Error in calculating hourly rates in certain cases (customer request).
New in TimePanic for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 4.5 Build 747 (Nov 4, 2013)
- Major improvements:
- There are now more ways to group a report.
- The data view now has features previously only available in print view:
- Minor improvements:
- Further columns are available in the report view
- Sorting in report view
- Statistical information in reports
- Changed features:
- The three tabs Data Source, Structure and Data of the report wizard have been combined in the new Data tab.
- The two tabs Options and View of the report wizard have been combined in the new Options tab.
- Bug fixes:
- Marking a day with zero planned working hours (not a Saturday or Sunday) as a partial day off (annual leave, sick leave, ...), specified in minutes, would crash TimePanic (customer request).
- Copying favorites by means of drag & drop in combination with the Ctrl key did not work properly (customer request).
- The advanced option Late rounding in status bar did not work in the report view. This has been fixed by introducing a second such option that only applies to the report view.
- In the USB drive version of TimePanic, work type images were saved with an absolute path.
- When a previous day is open in the day view, the regular intervals reminder displays the wrong currenty activity (customer request).
- Dropped Features:
- Windows 2000 is no longer supported.
- The report columns "Activity Number" and "Activity group number" have been removed.
New in TimePanic for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 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 for USB Drives 4.2 Build 606 (Nov 29, 2009)
New in TimePanic for USB Drives 4.1 Build 569 (May 12, 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.
New in TimePanic for USB Drives 4.1 Build 568 (Apr 25, 2009)
- Minor improvements
- The two dialogs "Options" and "Report Properties" now follow the style of Microsoft Office 2007.
- The maximum number of items displayed in the inplace-editing drop-down lists has been changed from 10 to 32.
- If you are using the time format "12 hour without display of AM or PM", TimePanic now chooses the most probable internal AM/PM indicator depending on the context - instead of always assuming AM (customer request).
- TimePanic now restores the maximized state of the main window after a restart (customer request).
- The placeholder feature now supports the user's login name (customer request).
- Other news
- A freeware edition of "TimePanic for Windows" with a reduced feature set is now available.
- Bug fixes
- Fixed: Typo in the toolbar: "View Year" changed to "Year View" (customer request).
- Fixed: Under certain circumstances, the font of the calendar in the day view changed unintentionally so that all days were displayed in bold (customer request). The "current project" drop-down list had a similar problem.
- Fixed: The lower part of the calendar in the day view was truncated on systems using large Windows fonts.
- Fixed: Divider lines appeared in several drop-down lists containing favorite activities and were displayed as random character strings (customer request).
- Fixed: The current project drop-down list did not hide projects whose parents were invisible.
- Fixed: The "Help" button in the dialog Modify Side Pane Tab did not work (customer request).
New in TimePanic for USB Drives 4.0 Build 555 (Apr 14, 2009)
- Major improvements
- Activities no longer have to be contiguous (customer request).
- In-place editing of activities is now possible in the day view (customer request). If you do not like in-place editing, you can turn it off in the options.
- The main window has a third toolbar that adjusts itself depending on whether you are in the day view, the year view or the report view. This new toolbar makes some of the already existing features more easily accessible (customer request).
- A new report wizard page lets you create reports based on a selection of simple examples. This simplifies the use of the report wizard (customer request).
- The TimePanic user interface now follows the color scheme of Microsoft Office 2007. You can choose between blue, silver and black.
- Minor improvements
- The usability of the side pane has been improved:
- The side pane can now be hidden (customer request).
- The order of the side pane tabs can now be changed by drag & drop.
- Side pane tabs now have a context menu, which makes some of the already existing functions easier to discover (such as enabling the current project feature).
- Favorites can also be renamed via the context menu.
- It is now possible to insert divider lines (customer request).
- Many TimePanic messages now contain a Do not ask again check box. In particular, the "Save changes?" message is now easier to disable (customer request).
- The option Show information texts no longer requires the restart of the application.
- The report option Group activities by titles can now be combined with other grouping options (customer request).
- Placeholders for favorite activities and for reports are now easier to use because they can be inserted by means of new arrow buttons (e.g. on the Save tab of reports).
- In TimePanic 3.5, the only way to create reports that showed projects without their sub-projects was to specify an activity filter that used the second selection mode. As of this version, hiding sub-projects is an independant option (customer request).
- If you create activities with zero duration and if there is a high probability that this was not your intention, a warning is now displayed (customer request).
- Planned breaks can now be disabled temporarily for the current session (customer request).
- When sidegrading from "TimePanic 4.0 for Windows" to "TimePanic 4.0 for USB", absolute files paths in favorite reports are now automatically replaced by relative paths (customer request).
- New commands have been added to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, for example Replace (customer request).
- The Choose Columns dialog in the day view is now resizable.
- When you create a new child project, its cost center is now initialized with the parent project's cost center (customer request).
- A new report column is available: day of the week (customer request). For reports grouped by days only, three new columns are available: start time of first activity, end time of last activity, non chargeable hours (customer request).
- The report option "Include days off as special work types" has been moved from the Options tab to the Structure tab to make it easier to understand.
- The new report option Show days off and empty days was implicitly activated in the previous version.
- The year view now allows entering day comments (customer request).
- Bug fixes
- Fixed: The Structure tab of the report properties tended to make previously hidden report fields visible again even if nothing was changed (customer request).
- Fixed: Some rarely used types of reports caused TimePanic to crash.
- Fixed: Several (invisible) formatting problems in HTML reports have been corrected.
- Fixed: For reports grouped by cost center, sorting by cost center did not work (customer request).
- Fixed: The keyboard shortcuts F11 and F12 for settings flags in the year view did not work. They have been changed to F9 and F10, respectively.
- Fixed: Entering 8.2 on the Working Hours tab did not work properly (customer request). Internally, this input was converted to 491 minutes instead of 492.
- Fixed: Days containing data are no longer displayed in bold in the day view calendar when navigating via the calendar caption (customer request).
- Fixed: Some menu items displayed random "phantom" texts in the status bar when selected (customer request).
- Bug fixes related to ActiveSync synchronization
- Fixed: After a daylight saving time clock change, activities created on the mobile device before the clock change were synchronized to the PC one hour off (customer request)