iTaskX 2.8.1

iTaskX offers all necessary functions to organize, track, and manage your projects. For example, over 60 task fields with calculations for slack time, effort-driven scheduling, overtime, cost accruals, WBS codes, critical tasks and varying calendars for project, timescale, tasks and resources will give you the functionality to deliver your ideas on schedule, effectively and professionally. Furthermore iTaskX supports now multiple task splits.

iTaskX offers opportunities beyond the capabilities of most project management applications like: custom row heights (in all tables), custom fonts, custom bar labels, bar styles, text styles, custom background colors, supports graphics and images in schedules, print preview, footers, templates, dockable inspectors, multiple selections, resource import from address book, attach documents to every task. Thanks to the flexible and powerful features that come with iTaskX, you have practically endless creative possibilities to explore.

TaskX offers a high degree of compatibility, letting you easily exchange your documents over Industry-Standard formats like MS Project MPP (read), MS Project XML or MS Project MPX. Via this formats it is possible to exchange e.g. besides all calendars, resources (persons/material), baseline, more than sixty additional task fields. Therefore iTaskX can be regarded as a milestone for exchanging documents with MS Project.

Major Features:

1. Appearance
   • Multiple default Views (Gantt View, Tracking Gantt, Calendar, Network Diagram, Task Sheet, Task Usage, Resource Sheet, Resource Usage).
   • Possibility to format each table row individually.
   • Possibility to adjust the height of each table row individually.
   • Possibility to configure the displayed columns of each table.
   • Extensive display options for the Gantt Bars (shape, color, shadow...).
   • Extensive format options for the timescale.
   • Individually configurable custom views.
   • Print preview with page margins and complete set of controls to adjust the page settings for perfect print outs.
   • Filter for every view.
2. Usability
   • Supports multiple selections.
   • Integrated Project Guide.
   • Extensive Help files.
   • Supports shortcuts and context-menus for importance commands.
   • Interactive scheduling messages.
   • Quick insert of multiple tasks through the help of a special sheet.
   • Import of Resources from Address Book, Directory server and Public Folders of a Microsoft Exchange Servers.
   • Context menus.
   • Provides specialized sheets for updating the progress of selected tasks or the whole project.
   • Calculation of the project in real-time.
   • Complete support for drag and drop in the Gantt views.
   • Supports Templates.
   • Spotlight searching.
     
3. Scheduling and tracking
   • Complete task constraints (start as soon as possible, start as late as possible, must start on, must finish on, start no earlier than, start no later than, finish no earlier than, finish no later than).
   • Supports all possible task dependencies (Finish to Finish, Finish to Start, Start to Start, Start to Finish) and positive or negative lags for task links.
   • Extensive task information's (over 60 task fields).
   • Supports linking of summary tasks.
   • Effort driven scheduling (standard).
   • Configurable task types (Fixed Duration, Fixed Work and Fixed Units).
   • Scheduled, base und actual task dates for effective tracking.
   • Calculation of start slack, finish slack, free slack and total slack for tasks.
   • Support of work (persons or groups of people) and material (supplies, stock or other consumable items) resources.
   • Support of work and overtime work for assignments.
   • Support of time units for assignments units (for example, 5 Liter/h) of material resources.
   • Supports Fixed Costs, Cost per Use, Standard Rate and Overtime Rate.
   • Possibility to specify the cost accrual (Start, Prorated, End).
   • Supports of different calendars for the project, timescale, tasks and resources.
   • Multiple task splitts.
   • WBS codes.
4. Data exchange
   • Microsoft Project MPP format (read only).
   • Microsoft Project XML format.
   • Microsoft Project MPX format.
   • TXT (tab separated values).
   • CSV (comma separated values).
   • ICS (iCal calendar format).
   • OPML format.
   • Possibility to export each view as image (PDF, JPG, EPS, TIF, PNG).

Enhancements:

• Fixed a bug with deletion of tasks with resources.

Requirements:

• Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3 (min. 500 MHz),  G4 or G5 processor (G5 or Intel processor recommended).
• Min. 512 MB of physical RAM (768 MB or more of physical RAM recommended).
• Mac OS X 10.4.2 or later (Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later recommended). Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Intel compatible.
• Display with at least 1024-by-768-pixel resolution.
• About 25 MB of disk space required to install iTaskX.