Altus First Release - April 24, 2024

Updates to Altus are deployed quarterly. The updates outlined below have now moved into Altus First Release and are available for your review and testing. 

Testing Key

We’ve ranked the updates that have been moved into First Release based on their anticipated complexity/platform impact. The aim is to assist you with creating testing priorities for your organisation. Your staff responsible for testing will have a more detailed understanding of likely impacts that will inform your specific testing requirements.

High	Potential for system impact, test item as a matter of priority, refer to notes
Medium	Testing should be undertaken prior to General Availability
Low	Testing recommended, item unlikely to cause issues at General Availability

Details of these updates can also be found here.

1. General Updates

Ref #

Description

Priority

#23265

Update to support Altus in the new Microsoft Teams.

Note: Due to changes implemented by Microsoft in the new Teams client, we can no longer support Altus to Teams authentication while using Altus embedded in a Channel website tab app (Teams in browser). Related features will work however if already logged into the Altus Teams App.

2. Resource Grid Improvements

#22085

Update to resourcing grids regarding named resources with no capacity in a given period:

No capacity is highlighted in the tool tip.
In-capacity percentage mode we will show “NA” in the grid

#24079

Inactive Resources are now excluded from the list of assignable resources to tasks.

This prevents users from inadvertently assigning tasks to resources who would be unavailable to work on them.

Note: If inactive resources are already assigned to a task an “(inactive)” indicator will be displayed.

# 24671

To enable better alignment with the resource to finance sync, resourcing now allows you to manage resource hours at the Fiscal Period.

3. Continuous Improvements to Baselines

The Baselines feature made available in the previous First Release in January has received some additional improvements.

#23367	Warning message is displayed when deleting a reportable baseline. Deleting a reportable baseline can result in some reports not working properly unless another baseline is subsequently flagged as reportable. Hence, this is being called out to users to avoid deletion of important data.	L
#23391	This change enables Partners to be able to customise baselines on behalf of customers.	L
#23473	Added Baseline Finish and Finish Variance (Days) fields to the All Active Projects view. This ensures that critical information about the baseline is visible when reviewing all projects.	M
#24089	When viewing the Reportable Baseline in the task control, the “Reportable” icon will display in the legend. This makes it clear to the user that the baseline currently being viewed is the one marked as Reportable.	L
#25257	Changed “Is Reportable” field label to “Reportable Baseline” in Altus Baseline forms for clarity.	L
#25401	View name is updated from “All Active Projects – Baselines” to “All Active Projects – Baselined” for additional clarity.	M

4. Additional Updates

# 25467

Added server-side check to prevent duplicate timesheet rows from being created.

5. Bug Fixes

The following bug fixes have been included in this release and can be reviewed as part of your normal testing process.

Item	Description
#22847	Fixed an issue where opening the same timesheet in multiple browser windows/tabs and performing save would create duplicate rows. Concurrent saves on the same timesheet will now display an error to prevent duplication of timesheet rows and, in instances where duplicate rows are present, a banner is displayed to notify the user to consolidate the data. In instances where duplicate rows are present, a banner is displayed to notify the user to consolidate the data:
#23490	Fixed an edge case issue where timesheet can be closed prior to the save being completed, added a prompt to alert user when attempting to close a browser window/tab with saving process in progress.
#23237	Resolved an issue with Projects when unlinked from their external system and their tasks are deleted that the project effort and percent complete are reset to 0.
#8660	Fixed an issue with calculated project effort and percent complete when project is unlinked from their external system and their tasks are deleted.
#14311	Resolved an issue wherein deleting dependencies does not work in some cases.
#23261	Resolved an issue where empty spaces could appear on the right side of Gantt chart when the task timeline is zoomed out in some situations.
#22877	Fixed an issue with the finance export to CSV which was ignoring rows with a 0 total.
#21639	Resolved an issue with show/hide functionality for the task grid columns.
#22298	Resolved an issue in the Altus Schedule where summary tasks would double count effort from child tasks. Effort on Gantt (when field is displayed) for parent tasks: Matches effort on the form:
#22849	Fixed an edge case problem where the solution could fail to deploy because of Locale issue.
#22687	The status update duplication functionality now supports portfolios.
#21614	Export to PDF is restored on the task grid with various choices of paper sizes, the default being A0.
#16194	Resolved an issue where fulfilling re-submitted resource requests were not showing as Set by approver on the tooltip.
#21846	Resolved an issue where the task type of external tasks was forced to be Fixed Duration.
#21847	Resolved an issue where external task field values on the Altus Schedule do not match the values in the external system. Gantt tool now will not recalculate the schedule.
#22294	Altus schedule changes when discarded will now return the project form to a saved state.
#22834	Updated Project for the Web Project Dataflow to fix an issue with Percent Complete values not syncing correctly. This Dataflow fix will not automatically update any environment, it can be downloaded from this page.
#8977	Resolved an issue preventing Project level fields from being updated after unlinking an external project.
#10978	Resolved a bug where changing the positioning of a Bucket in Project for the Web was not reflected in Altus.
#11212	Resolved an issue with text overflow on the Status Summary control.
#14391	When the KPI is configured to show more than the default rows, the visual now spans 100% of the available horizontal space.
#15298	Resolved an issue where tasks synchronised from Project for the web were not being correctly updated into Altus if they were outdented to become top level tasks.
#22587	Resolved an issue where Unassigned Resource assignments were not being filtered out correctly in the Project Online Task Dataflow, causing Unassigned Resource to be created.
#22591	The Delete button is now hidden on the task form when viewing a task published from MS Project.
#9904	The percent complete on the task list now renders as a progress bar.
#10861	Resolved an issue where tasks synchronised from external systems could be marked as complete from the Kanban task view.
#13164	Resolved an issue whereby effort values were not being reset on a Project upon linking it to a Planner Plan.
#15298	Resolved an issue where tasks synchronised from Project for the web were not being correctly updated into Altus if they were outdented to become top level tasks.
#18607	Addressed minor style issue in Timesheet search box overlapping status banner.
#22086	Addressed an issue where editing a newly added task to the Altus schedule would not open the correct task in the dialog after saving.
#22273	Resolved an issue where the expand/collapse header button was defaulting to the wrong state in the Add Task dialog for Timesheets.
#22274	Resolved an issue where long project names were breaking the formatting of the Add Task dialog in Timesheets.
#22276	Configured Projects tab on the Program form to show all aligned Projects regardless of their Status value.
#22277	Configured Projects tab on the Portfolio form to show all aligned Projects regardless of their Status value.
#22279	Configured Programs tab on the Portfolio form to show all aligned Programs regardless of their Status value.
#22619	Resolved an issue whereby Resource to Finance Sync was failing when Fiscal Periods were present in an environment but did not cover in entirety the dates of a Resource Plan.
#24087	Fixed an issue where Submit for Approval button in Timesheet would sometimes flicker when typing values in Timesheet grid.
#24095	Resolved an issue where assigning a resource to a task via form in some situations could cause resource assignment to get removed.

That’s all the details for the Altus April 2024 First Release. Please get in touch with your Altus partner representative if you wish to discuss any of the above updates.

Wishing you a great quarter of successful project management,

The Altus Product Development Team