Are you ready for the Holidays? Bamboo Solutions is ready. For this week in Bamboo, we’re excited to launch our World Clock and Weather Web Part with many new and updated features for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Please check out our storefront and get it for free! At the same time, we released some patches with lots of bug fixes for some products of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. The most important patches of the week are SharePoint Project Management Central (Release 2.0) and SharePoint Task Master (Release 2.0) for SharePoint 2010 where we fixed many bugs and have many great new features. Please see the list below for more details.
SharePoint 2007 Products:
HW17 World Clock and Weather Web Part Release 2.3
New:
• Provide option to Upcoming Events link based on a SharePoint Calendar list.
• Provide option to specify a local RSS Feeds.
• Provide option to click and link to a MSN Map to show the address of the local locations.
• New and Improved user interface links and icons.
• Use merged assembly and deploys Bamboo.Core.wsp and Bamboo.Core.V1.2.msi.
Bug Fixes:
• The snowflakes look like boxes in IE8.
HW38 SharePoint Poll Web Part Release 1.4.18
New:
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
• Use merged assembly and deploys Bamboo.Core.wsp and Bamboo.Core.V1.2.msi.
• Use new bundle installation.
Bug Fixes:
• Using SSL non-secure content warning.
• Fixed text wrap for Bar Chart. Unable to do text wrap for Pie Chart due to 3rd party control limitation.
Limitations:
• Unable to do text wrap for Pie Chart due to 3rd party control limitation.
The following products have the same release notes:
1. HW31 Virtual Map View Web Part Release 1.9.9
2. HW41H Bamboo Custom Identifier Release 1.0.35
3. HW29 User Profile Plus Web Part Release 1.4.7
New:
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
• Use merged assembly and deploys Bamboo.Core.wsp and Bamboo.Core.V1.2.msi.
• Use new bundle installation.
HW04 SQL View Web Part Release 1.6.17
New:
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.2
• Use merged assembly and deploys Bamboo.Core.wsp and Bamboo.Core.V1.2.msi.
• Use new bundle installation.
Bug Fixes:
• Unable to connect to remote database
SharePoint 2010 Products:
HW17 World Clock and Weather Web Part Release 2.3
New:
• Provide option to Upcoming Events link based on a SharePoint Calendar list.
• Provide option to specify a local RSS Feeds.
• Provide option to click and link to a MSN Map to show the address of the local locations.
• New and Improved user interface links and icons.
HW45 SharePoint Task Master Release 2.0
New:
• Create Tasks Using Start Date & Due Date, Start Date & Work, or Start Date & Duration – Users can now create tasks using Start Date and Work if they know when the resource can start and how long it will take the resource to complete the task. Users can also create tasks using Start Date and Duration if they know when the task can start and the length of the task.
• Multi-line Editing – Users can now modify multiple task items at one time.
• Save and Refresh – Users can undo recent changes via the Refresh button if they have not saved the changes.
• Show Selection – Users can focus on a certain number of specific task items selecting their check boxes and clicking the Show button.
• Bamboo Duration Column – A new Bamboo custom column displays Duration in days, hours or minutes.
• Filtering – Users can filter the available views, such as All Tasks or Active Tasks, to display specific criteria.
Bug Fixes:
• Internal bug fixes to support PM Central (SA12) R2.0
Known Issues:
• The Start Date and Due Date cannot be the same if the Duration is greater than zero and the Start Date and Due Date are set to Date only in the SharePoint list. See KB.12570.
• When using a Turkish site, the following error occurs when creating a new task: “Unbound reference in the aggregate expression ‘System.Data.AggregateNode'”.
• If the bar in the Gantt view is short, representing the length of a task, when users drag and drop, the result will not be as expected.
• The item will be displayed out of order where it will be displayed as the last item in order if its Start Date and Due Date are outside of the Gantt scale interval.
• When Task Master is not set to expand and users expand certain task summaries, if they go to another site and come back, this information is not cached in the browser, and all the items will be displayed as collapsed.
• When Task Master is first installed or new items are first added, even if the tool pane is set to Automatically Expand Level as (blank), the items will be collapsed. Users are required to edit the tool pane and click Apply and OK again.
• When users customize the default master page in SharePoint (blue band.master), Task Master shows no data. Use SharePoint Designer to check if the <WebPartPages:SPWebPartManager runat=’server’/> tag resides outside the <form> tag of the page. If so, modify the custom Master Page and move the <WebPartPages:SPWebPartManager runat=’server’/> tag inside the <form> tag.
• When upgrading from R1.8 or older to R2.0, the existing task items will display a 0 value for the Work and Duration columns. Users are required to click on the Recalculate button.
• If the options to use Save and Refresh are turned on, after clicking the Save button, the Filters drop-down list will not display any options. Users need to refresh the browser using the option Control + F5.
• With Task Master while editing a task in the form to change the Units (days/hours/minutes) for the Duration or Work fields, the browser window will display “boxes” instead of the site title.
• After upgrading from an older version to R2.0, when adding a new task in the grid, Task Master will display a JavaScript error. Users are required to refresh the page the first time via Control + F5 for the error to go away.
• Due to the current control that Task Master is using, when dragging and dropping a task in the Gantt view, the task might position outside of the Task Master Web Part.
• If the task has a Task Summary and child tasks where one of the child tasks is outside of the Gantt interval scale, users are required to click two times to expand the tasks that are outside of the scale.
• After moving to another page and coming back to the page, Task Master collapses all items even though “Automatically Expand Level” is set as blank in the tool pane.
• The color of items in the grid change after clicking on the Recalculate button. Press F5 and the color will go back to normal per the settings.
HW10 Password Reset Web Part Release 2.4.31
Bug Fixes:
• Anonymous user cannot reset password on a Claims Based Authentication web app.
SA12 SharePoint Project Management Central Release R2.0
New:
Manage Budget, Schedule and Progress:
• Budget Work and Cost – You can set the Budget Work and Budget Cost for the project in the Project Health list.
• Progress Management – The application updates the Actual Start Date and Actual Due Date based on the % Complete progress. The application updates the Project Actual Duration, Project Actual Cost and Project Actual Work when you select the Update Project Cost & Schedule.
• Baseline – Once you finalize the schedule and cost, you can now baseline the task, the project and the project cost. This helps you monitor whether there are any changes from the baseline as the project and the tasks progress.
• Create Tasks Using Start Date & Due Date, Start Date & Duration, or Start Date & Work – Users can now create tasks using the Start Date and Work if they know when the resource can start and how long it will take the resource to complete the task. Users can also create tasks using the Start Date and Duration if they know when the task can start and the length of the task.
• Multi-line Editing – You can now modify multiple task items at one time.
• Filtering – Users can filter the available views, such as All Tasks or Active Tasks, to display specific criteria.
Resource Management:
• Task and Project Allocation – Users can assign the percentage of the time the resource is working on a particular project and on a particular task.
• Adding Resources – Users can add resources to the project using the Enterprise Resource Pool (ERP) or add a SharePoint account as a resource to the list.
• Multi-Level Tracking and Reporting via 3-Tiered Architecture – Users can view data such as status, resource allocation and reports at the portfolio level and at the project site. Now, they can also review all this data at the department level.
• Customization – Additional “nested” master pages and “nested” CSS files are available for users to keep their customizations, including modifications to logos or color, so that in future upgrades post R2.0, they will be retained.
New Reports:
• Monthly Resource Cost/Work Allocation – Users can now view the resource cost/work allocation for each month in a line graph. They can also save this information to a list to reference it later on.
• Risk Reports for the Portfolio and Project Sites – Risk bubble charts are available at the project and portfolio sites. This helps users track risks and the projects that are at risk.
Administrative Tools:
• Health Check – The Health Check report displays which components in PM Central were not installed.
• Timer Job – The timer job for updating the Project Health List runs every 10-20 minutes. Users who want to update it sooner can manually run it.
• Monitoring the Upgrade of Sites – To help the users know what sites have been successfully upgraded to the new version, a monitoring page is available in Central Administration under Bamboo Project Management Central.
• Tooltips/Descriptions – To help users better understand what the components and fields do, we have added descriptions to each section as well as to the lists and fields.
• Site Creation – During the project site or department site creation, users can choose which template to use from the drop-down selection.
Bug Fixes:
• In the Task Summary chart, the legends displays as rectangular instead of circle on German Site
• Resource Allocation and Capacity Planning shows Empty when Regional settings are set to German
• When the login account has just Read permission, the Project Summary does not display the Project site
• The “Percent Complete” Bamboo Visual Indicator column displays incorrect percent value on German site
• “Days Overdue” and “Schedule Status” columns, which use [Today] as part of the formula, are not automatically calculated. Therefore, the columns display the wrong info. In R2.0, custom column is used for the Days Overdue and will automatically update when users click on the Scheduling View
• If user does not have access to one of the projects, the Project Summary returns errors
• Project % Complete is calculated based on the average of the tasks’ % Complete. The correct formula is now applied to compute the Project % complete.
• Resource Availability Chart Web part showing the wrong date on the Australia site
• Resource Work Project report displays negative values on the German site
Limitations:
• Users using anonymous login will not be able to see the My Summary, Overview or Issues tabs on the project site because the application sets the list view in SharePoint using the filter with user account = [Me] to show in the tab. This is a SharePoint limitation.
Known Issues:
• When upgrading from R1.8 to R2.0, users are required to do a remove all and reinstall during the install in order for the upgrade to be successful.
• Calendar Plus at the project site wraps the fields and causes overlapping of some text due the pixel size of the window.
• In Task Master while editing a task in the form to change the Units (days/hours/minutes) for the Duration or Work fields, the browser window will display “boxes” instead of the site title.
• Users need to log in with a farm administrator account in order to filter the department site if a PM Central top-site template was used to create the top site in the site collection and then a department site was created.
• The portfolio site’s Resource Cost Allocation Per Month tab only reports in U.S. currency.
• Users cannot create the department site or the project site from SharePoint. Users are required to select the Add New Project option under Central Actions to create a site from the portfolio site via the Site Creation Plus Web Part.
• Users should delete the department site from its Delete Site option in the department site’s Settings tab instead of from SharePoint Site Actions. This ensures that the department site item is deleted from the portfolio site’s department site list.
• When there are 1,500 or more items in the Tasks list, users should not use the Update Data/Update Now option to update the Bamboo Update Summary Project List Timer Job Settings Web Part or the Bamboo Update Task, Issues, Project Health Lists Timer Job Scheduler. Users will receive the error, “An unexpected error has occurred.”
• Users using an anonymous login will not be able to see some tabs on the portfolio site (Risks, Schedule, Issues) because the AssignedTo column is included to be displayed in the Data-Viewer Web Part via List Rollup R5.0. This is a bug in the backend of the List Rollup Web Part.
• Resource Allocation and Capacity Planning at the portfolio site might result in request timed out in cases where there are 500 items or more in the Tasks list per project.
• In R2.0, Days Overdue is now a Bamboo DaysOverDue custom column. In order to see the accurate status of Days Overdue and Due, users are required to go to the Scheduling View under the project site’s Tasks tab first instead of going to the Tasks list’s Overdue Tasks View. Clicking the Scheduling View will register today’s date and update the Days Overdue and Due columns.
• When exporting data to Excel from the Data-Viewer Web Part where the data source is from List Rollup Schema, such as Project Tasks under the portfolio site’s Schedules tab, the site path is blank.
Requires the following versions or newer for these Web Parts:
• Alert Plus Release 3.0 or newer
• Calendar Plus Web Part Release 4.0 or newer
• List Rollup Web Part Release 5.0
• SharePoint Task Master Release 2.0
HW69 SharePoint Video Library Release 1.2
New:
• Initial Release on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
Known Limitations:
• When the video links are redirect links, the Windows Media files will be saved as the .wvx files and may not generate thumbnails or metadata. Linking to the files directly should fix this.
• Windows Media files other than those in the supported file types list (ex. “Windows Media Screen”) may play, but may not generate thumbnails or metadata.
• Some video files using Advanced Video Coding or have high resolution may not generate thumbnails or metadata.
• FLV files using “chunked” transfer encoding may not play back correctly.
• MP4 files linked over MMS or RTSP may not generate thumbnails or metadata.
• Silverlight’s limitation where the videos will not play when using https if the video source is from another domain.
