Recently, we released PPM Express v9.0. This release was focused primarily on the Roadmaps module, visualizing your company and team strategies, and plans and communicating significant steps and milestones. These release notes will highlight several new great features to PPM Express. This June, we have added several new great features to PPM Express.
Release Notes 9.0
A new Roadmaps module was added to PPM Express to visualize your company and team strategies and plan and communicate significant steps and milestones. The Roadmaps module option is currently available as a Preview for customers on PPM Express Professional and Professional Enterprise plans.
The Roadmap consists of a series of tasks and milestones assigned to different teams or stakeholders. A roadmap allows decision-makers to plan and track their company’s progress at the macro level by combining team-specific roles and business objectives.
When the items are added, you can add them to the required groups and change the items’ position on the timeline directly using the drag and drop functionality.
It is also possible to change the timeframe for the item by dragging it to the required date on the timeline.
All Roadmaps can be viewed on the Roadmaps page includes a list of all Roadmaps and allows for creating and managing Roadmaps within the organization.
Like other PPM Express pages, the Roadmaps page may be viewed as cards or a configurable table. Use filters to find the required Roadmap quickly.
The scroll option was added to the Tags field to review all available tags at once
Before:
Only the first ten tags were available in the Tags field. Users could start typing the tag name and select the required one to find titles.
Now:
All tags are available in the Tags field. The scroll option was added to the Tags field to find the required title if users don’t know its name.
The People Management page was redesigned for more straightforward navigation
The Roadmaps permission section was added to People Management to assign permissions to view, edit and create roadmaps.
User Settings page was redesigned for more straightforward navigation.
Before:
Common settings, Project, Program, and Portfolio permissions were open and displayed on the User Settings page.
Now:
Common Settings, Project, Program, Portfolio, and Roadmap permissions are hidden. To assign permissions for a user as required, click on authorization to open it first. You don’t need to scroll down to the required approval. Please select it from the list and open it.
The items can now be deleted from the Edit Item Page directly using the red bin button
Before:
To delete PPM Express items, users selected the item in question and clicked the Delete item button.
Now:
A red bin button was added to the Edit Item page, and users can now delete items from this page.
Release Notes 9.1
‘Days of the week’ section was added to calendar exceptions
Both tenant-wide and resource calendar exceptions were updated with a new ‘Days of the week’ section.
Before:
When you created an exception and provided the start and finish dates, this exception was applied for the whole period selected.
Now:
When you create an exception and provide the start and finish dates, you can also specify the days of the week for which this exception should be applied. Thus, you can exclude the days of the week that should have regular hours or use another exception for these days.
New Features:
- You can now create Roadmaps, create groups and labels within the Roadmap, and add items manually or by importing them from PPM Express Projects, Portfolios, Programs, Tasks, Objectives, Key Dates, and Ideas.
Improvements:
- The items can now be deleted from the Edit Item Page directly using the red bin button.
- The Report settings page was redesigned to include the list of available report packs.
- The report packs are available for download from the Report Settings page directly.
- Users can add custom reports to the Report Settings page and make them accessible from other PPM Express pages for more straightforward navigation.
- The people Management page was redesigned for more straightforward navigation.
- The scroll option was added to the Tags field to review all available tags at once.
- ‘Days of the week’ section was added to calendar exceptions.