Details of the update's changes:
This bugfix release brings the following changes:
The release of WPlanif v1.9 marks the return of new feature development. Included are:
A new dimension is added to WPlanif: you can now perform an advanced search on all tasks in the calendar.
Add a few service points or some clients to your context, adjust the date range, then hit the Search button to launch a search request.
Afterwards, you can refine your results by selecting additional filters. For example, you can easily find all tasks of certain types that are assigned to a specific person:
As easily, you can search for a keyword (in tasks' title and description) and filter using equipment:
If you click on a search results, the corresponding task form will open. When the form closes, you will be brought back to the search result list.
You can export search results as CSV-formatted files, which are easy to process in other software like Excel. The name of the exported file will correspond to your current search filters.
Note that once data is exported and modified, it cannot be re-imported. Nonetheless, a CSV export can still allow you to further analyse and explore the data under all its aspects.
The exported CSV files are semicolon-separated. If you are having trouble opening the file in Excel (your Windows Regional Settings may specify a different List Separator than the semicolon character), try renaming the file to a .TXT extension instead of .CSV, then use File > Open in Excel to open the file. Excel's Text File Import Wizard should start automatically, giving you maximum flexibility in how to interpret the file.
The work subdivision system has been slightly re-worked in the hope that its use will be more practical to you.
Small reminder: work subdivisions are sub-tasks that allow you to split your planned work schedule in more specific and more detailed sub-schedules. Let's take the following example:
Here, we wish to subdivide the task "B. Gear" planned on the wind farm Breeze of West. From WPlanif v1.9 on , two options are now open to us.
In the task form, click on "Subdivide Work" to create a sub-task:
You can then choose an independent schedule, different equipment and specific assignees for each work subdivision:
The main drawback of Option 1 is that it is more difficult to access existing planned tasks when your main work area is the Assignee / Service Points Calendar (planned schedules are only visible in the Site Calendar).
With WPlanif v1.9, a new option is available to you. Here is a typical scenario to illustrate:
You are presently looking at the Assignee calendar. You already know that, in the wind farm Breeze of West, there is a planned task of type Inspection that needs to be completed (this task is not currently visible). This Inspection must be split in many sub-tasks, because it will be completed by different assignees on each day of work. Thus, you should use the task subdivision system to link all those assignee's work assignements together.
At this point, instead of being forced to open the Site Calendar to subdivide the Inspection planned task, you can now remain in the Assignee Calendar and click to create a new task directly in the schedule of one of you available assignees:
Choose the site Breeze of West in the form to make your desired parent task appear:
Click on Assicuate to an existing task to start the association process:
Note that you are now in association mode. Here, you must select which of the parent planned tasks you wish to associate with your new task. Note that only the tasks "Breeze inspect", "B. Gear" and "Cantal Blade 2" are available: they are the only candidate parent tasks (i.e. those that are not children themselves).
Click on one of these parent tasks (i.e. those that are not transparent) to complete the association link.
Your are now toggled to the new parent planned task's form, which just got a new work subdivision attached to it:
Important: note that, when you associate to an existing parent task, your child work subdivision will lose its title, its description and its task type - this information are documented uniquely on the parent planned task.
You may have noticed that, at the last step of the scenario of the preceding section, the parent task did not keep its associated equipment: the new work subdivision was automatically given all the equipment that used to belong to its parent planned task.
The reason is simple: when a planned task is subdivided, we now force the equipment to be linked to the work subdivisions instead of to the parent. This will allow us to have better precision on assignment data and service interruptions when will attempt to estimate the impact of planned work on the power production of your wind farms (forthcoming in WPlanif v2.0).
Please, take the time to experiment with the new task subdivision functionalities and to forward us your feedback. Don't hesitate to send us your questions (taoneill@wpred.com and hugo.migneron@wpred.com, at your service).
Thank you for sending us your comments and suggestions.
