Altus First Release - October 29th, 2024

High

Potential for system impact. Test item as a matter of priority and refer to notes.

Medium

Testing should be undertaken prior to General Availability

Low

Testing recommended, item unlikely to cause issues at General Availability

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#27797 

Added the ability to hide the Altus out of the box transaction type columns from the finance grids. Enabling customer scenarios such as providing an alternate place to show overall variance, if monthly variance is not relevant. 

L 

#27798 

Provided a way for the customer to determine a different way to calculate the Variance calculation. 

L 

#28673 

Added clarity where the variance is shown on the finance grids to indicate which variance calculation is being used. 

L             

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#26278 

Added capability to use ‘Create Plan from Schedule’ for Microsoft Project aligned projects.

L 

#27514 

Opened the “Create Plan from Schedule” resourcing functionality to external projects. 
Feature will rely on the synced tasks having resource assignments, effort, duration, start date and end date. 

L 

#27328 and #27461 

Resource Demand improvement to ease click-to-copy restriction and to make it consistent with autofill action. This will now work consistently on all proposed fields regardless of the availability. 

M 

#28213 

Increased fidelity of Resource Plan data and improved aggregation accuracy. 

L 

#28412 

Addressed an issue where Availability was not always copied correctly using the ‘click to copy’ functionality in Resource Plan. 

L 

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#28309 

We’ve added the Power BI Report Viewer control to enable reports that are automatically scoped to specific records on forms.

We’ve added the Power BI Report Viewer control to enable reports that are automatically trimmed based on their location. These include: 

• New Status Report tabs: 

• Second tab on Project Tracking. 

• Second tab on Program form. 

• Second tab on Portfolio form. 

• New ‘Report Viewer Config’ settings to link Paginated Power BI Reports to the new tabs.

Note: the new tabs will initially be hidden until the new paginated reports are available and configured

The new method provides better security since users can only access reports and data, they have permission to.  

Microsoft will be phasing out iFrame embedding for security reasons, so switching to the new method is recommended for all customers. 

This impacts customers that already have embedded paginated reports in their environment, please make sure that these tabs are not creating duplicates. 

More information on this feature can be found here. 

H 

#22876 

Visual improvements to the Portfolio Summary and Program Summary controls to improve consistency between % complete values. 

L 

#29454 

Sum of total effort columns for portfolio now includes projects within programs in addition to directly associated projects in the portfolio. 

L 

#24954 

Updated the Planner logo 

L 

#26484 

A new Custom API has been added as part of the Planner Premium integration feature. It allows for the retrieval and storage of Planner Premium plans within Altus. 

L 

#27345 

Ensured that Timesheet to Task Sync will continue to work with large datasets. 

M 

#28270 

We have updated the naming of the previously known as ‘Microsoft Project Config’ to now be the ‘Altus for Project Configuration’ under the same Projects Category. 

L 

#27260 

We have performed optimizations to the approach used for deleting tasks associated with external systems. In the process we give a bit more information about what is being done as its being processed. 

L 

#27517 

Updated the user experience to warn that unlinking an external project with over 300 tasks can take up to 45 minutes. 

L 

#27551 

Unlink Dialog Update: Long project names are now trimmed with ellipses if they exceed the window length. Hover over the name to view it in full. 

L 

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Description 

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#24659 

Addressed an issue where timesheets created on behalf of a user failed when updated by that user if the timesheet contained task references to projects the user does not have access to. 

M 

#26958 

Ensured that the projectEntityRecordGroupOwner configuration setting is correctly used to identify an additional security role to apply to a Group Owner team. 

M 

#27547 

On clicking Unlink MPP file the Project Name and External System no longer disappear after one minute. 

L 

#28323 

Resolved an issue that caused the Task Grid hide/show functionality to fail in some situations, preventing the tasks from appearing in the schedule UI. 

L 

#28588 

Resolved an issue where Timesheet to Finance Sync functionality was failing in unexpected data scenarios. 

L 

#28850 

Fixed an issue related to duplicating a previous status update when default KPIs have been removed. 

L 

#29018 

Addressed an issue with Status Updates where the default calculations for overdue deliverables, risks and issues were using UTC now instead of Today now. Meaning items overdue yesterday would only be accurate after UTC midnight. 
For those with custom configurations for these values, please update the tokens from {utcNow} to {todayDate}. 

L 

#29181 

Addressed an issue with Report Viewer where default state showing tab before configured. 

L 

#29184 

Resolved an issue that was incorrectly implementing unexpected ‘short hours’ calculations in ‘Proposed only’ and ‘Committed only’ modes of Resource to Finance sync. 

M 

#29202 

Fixed styling issue caused by third party CDN impacting Tasks list and Gantt chart display. 

L 

#29324 

Addressed an issue with long schedules (or target finish not in schedule view) where the dependency lines were not visible. 

L 

#29781 

Corrected support for custom column in the finance grid. 

L 

#29783 

Removed system users from appearing in resource picker. 

L 

#29804 

Fixed an issue with external project unlinking. 

L