9 New Features • 18 Improvements • 35 Bug Fixes

This release is packed! 🚀 The Gantt view now supports Baselines! With backward scheduling during project creation, you can now plan from the end date. On top of that, there are more flexible list views (more options such as flat views), a new project browser, powerful portfolio analysis widgets, and extended workload views. And: Tasks can now be pinned directly as tabs!

✨ New Features

📐 Gantt: Baselines

Compare your current project plan with the original - or even multiple versions. With the new baseline feature in the Gantt view, you can save as many reference schedules (baselines) as you like and compare them against the current state at any time. This way, you can see at a glance which tasks have shifted and where deviations have occurred - ideal for planned vs. actual comparisons in project management.

📋 More Flexible List Views

• Save expand level per view: Define which hierarchy level should be expanded by default when opening a list view - e.g. all levels expanded, only main tasks, or subtasks down to a specific level. The setting is saved with the view.
• Show subtasks flat: A new list option allows you to display all subtasks "flat" - i.e. on the same level as main tasks. This makes it possible for the first time to group and sort subtasks across all levels. 

🔍 New Entry Point: Browse Projects

The project portfolio under the Projects menu item gets a new, faster entry point for quick access to your project: A searchable list of your recently opened projects, allowing you to find and open projects directly - including various quick filters.

Note: The project list and the project board, including all saved views, remain accessible under the Portfolio tab.

📉 Extended Workload Analysis

The analysis feature in the workload view has been expanded: The analysis panel now has its own, more prominent button, is displayed full-screen, and offers a new, scalable time axis (in a weekly or monthly view) for displaying team capacity. Team capacity and planned hours are visualized as line and bar charts - stacked by teams.

📌 Add Tasks as Tabs

In addition to views, you can now pin individual tasks as their own tabs in the project navigation. This also works with project templates: When a new project is created from a template, the tab automatically points to the corresponding task in the new project. 

Note: A pinned task in the tabs is automatically visible to all project members.

You can find the feature here: Project > Options menu > Manage tabs > Pin task  

Or alternatively in the task detail: Options menu  > Add to tabs

✅ Approval Workflows: Single Approval or All-Must-Approve

In the workflow settings, you can now choose whether - when there are multiple approvers - only a single person is sufficient or whether all assigned persons must approve for the workflow step to be considered approved. Additionally, the current approval status (how many persons have already approved) is now visible directly in the task detail.

📊 New Portfolio Analysis Widgets

The portfolio now offers generic bar chart and donut chart widgets. Both chart types can be flexibly configured and duplicated as many times as needed: Freely choose which number or formula flavor values as well as project master data should be displayed as axes and segments. Save your individual analyses as a view. Additionally, the filter in the analysis view has been brought up to date.

📅 Backward Scheduling for Project Creation

Projects created from templates can now be set up not only with a new start date, but also with an end date. The system then automatically calculates all task dates backward and provides you with the matching start date. Perfect for projects with a fixed target date - e.g. events, product launches, or deadlines: You immediately know when you need to start.

🌟 Improvements

🖨️ Gantt: New Print Function & Updated Toolbar

The Gantt view is now printable: The list on the left side is hidden when printing, so that only the drawn timeline is output. The print range automatically follows the first start date and the last end date, but can be freely adjusted for printing. The print output respects the expand/collapse state of levels. 

And: The toolbar has received a small overhaul.

📊 Workload: Extended Summary Rows & Capacity Distribution Across Projects

The summary rows in the workload view have been expanded in several steps:

• The summary rows now only consider open (not completed) tasks by default.
• New metrics: Capacity minus Planned Time and Capacity minus Recorded Time are available as additional summary rows.
• A new option in the options menu allows time entries on tasks that are not directly assigned to the person to also be included.
• The team workload now shows the "All Resources" button regardless of HR permissions, so team leads can see their complete team.

Additionally, the workload view now displays a proportional capacity distribution per project. Next to each project name, you can see the proportional hours and the percentage share of the total capacity - so you can tell at a glance how the workload is distributed across projects.

⏱️ New Setting: Visibility of Recorded Time Entries Configurable

In the workspace Settings under Time Tracking, you can now configure whether recorded time entries from other persons should be visible in the task detail or not. The setting is flexibly configurable with various options.

⚙️ Workflow Status: Individually Skip "Value Required"

For any completed status, you can now configure that the check for mandatory flavor values is skipped. This way, tasks can be closed as e.g. "not relevant" without having to fill in all required fields.

📂 Portfolio List: Edit Project Standard Fields Inline

The fields Project Lead, Folder, and Project Type can now be edited directly in the portfolio list view - without the detour through the project settings.

📋 More Improvements

• Timeline: 
  • Better readability: The shading for groupings has been improved - contours are now more clearly visible.
  • Subtasks now visible: Subtasks can now be displayed in the timeline view - previously only main tasks were visible. This is an early implementation that will be further expanded for better readability of subtasks.
• Project Lead in Related Projects: Project leads are now correctly displayed again in the related projects table.
• "Recently Opened Projects" widget: The widget has been marked as (deprecated), as the newer "Recently Used" widget is recommended. The Budget column has been removed.
• Insert flavor values in configuration: When adding values to single-/multi-select flavors, you can now insert multiple values at once - simply via copy & paste e.g. from Excel.
• API extensions: 
  • Dependencies (DependentOn) are now supported in the task endpoint. 
  • Tasks can now also be assigned via email address.
• Excel export: The columns for Blocked by and Blocks now resolve to task titles instead of GUIDs.
• "Map" flavor type extended: Latitude and longitude can now also be entered manually.
• Performance improvements: A lot of work has been done on the underlying infrastructure again to improve the response times of the entire system.

🐛 Bug Fixes

🖥️ User Interface & Navigation

• Filter feedback: When a project has no filter matches, an informative placeholder with a hint text and the option to remove the filter is now displayed.
• Show project names in tasks option: The setting works correctly again.
• Tabs after printing: Tabs no longer disappear after printing a list or the Gantt chart.
• Custom tabs on mobile: Pinned tabs now work correctly in the mobile view as well.
• Favorite views: Views opened via favorites now correctly open the corresponding project tab again.
• Archived projects: Opening and deleting archived projects via the sidebar works correctly again.
• Delete project from sidebar: When deleting the currently open project via the sidebar, you are now correctly redirected to the portfolio.
• Workspace views: Shared workspace views can be saved reliably again.
• Drag Outlook emails to folder: Creating tasks by dragging & dropping Outlook emails onto a folder works again.
• Bubble chart legend: The legend in the bubble chart widget is displayed correctly again.
• Emoji button in comments: The emoji button works correctly again when editing comments.

📝 Tasks & Projects

• My Tasks fixes
  • Grouping: Multi-level grouping now works correctly again when "Project" is used as a grouping element.
  • Visibility: Tasks that were moved from "My Tasks" to a project are now visible to all authorized persons - no longer only to the creator.
• Project creation: A bug where the redirect after creating a project did not work has been fixed.
• Task templates - sorting: The order of subtasks in task templates is now preserved when creating new tasks.
• Search & widget: The personal project is now correctly displayed in search and in the "Recently Opened" widget.
• Delete multiple tasks: Deleting multiple tasks at once via the All Tasks list works again.
• Open subtasks in list view: The notification that appears when completing a task that still has open subtasks now also appears when a task is completed in the list view.
• Flavor duplicate check: When creating flavors, the title is now correctly checked for duplicates again.
• Master data widget: Flavors are displayed in the master data widget again in the correct order and grouping.
• Restore via Feed: Restoring deleted tasks via the Feed widget is working again.

📊 Views & Filters

• Timeline:
  • Interaction: Tasks in the timeline can be edited and opened normally again.
  • Group by assignee: Persons with the same name are now displayed in separate groups.
  • Group by folder: Grouping by folder now works immediately after creating new folders without a page refresh.
  • Folder colors: The opacity of folder colors is now displayed correctly.
• Board
  • Moving: Moving tasks in the board works reliably again and tasks no longer jump back to the old folder.
  • Loading indicator: When reloading the board, task counts in columns are displayed correctly again.
• List view date grouping: Grouping by a date-type flavor now sorts correctly by date instead of alphabetically.
• "Only me" filter: The filter dialog now stays open when activating the "Only me" filter, and is no longer executed immediately.
• Bulk move subtasks: A bug when bulk-moving subtasks to other folders has been fixed.
• Portfolio - cell editing: Changing values in the portfolio list with active grouping no longer causes projects to "disappear".

📈 Workload

• Tasks after reload: A bug where tasks in the workload view disappeared after a reload has been fixed.
• View error: A bug when reloading the workload view with a selected view has been fixed.

🔌 API & Integrations

• Import working hours: Importing working hours via the API works reliably again.
• Person flavors via API: Person flavors imported via the API are now correctly displayed in the user interface.
• Task import: Empty entries are now prevented during import when no mapping is available.