About Timeline Presenter

Timeline Presenter is an application which turns a Microsoft Project Plan into a Timeline. It was born out of a lack of simple tools to generate a Timeline on the PC based on the finish dates in a project.

Download: Timeline Presenter V1.5

Timeline Presenter Features:

New with (V1.5)
- Added ability to show only milestones
- Added ability to filter by completion percentage
- Added Zoom In/Out Buttons for finer zoom control
- Greatly increased rendering and scrolling performance.
- Reduced depth of images to 16 bit to save memory - can handle larger projects now
- Added image dimensions so its possible to see how big the saved image is
- Supports delimited text files in addition to project files - can use multiple delimitors
  Broadens Timeline Presenter from just Project - use it for any timeline, log files etc!
  - Now supports hours/mins/seconds scale and added a day interval
  - Lets you optionally set columns for resources or milestones
  - Supports all .NET date formats, plus "dd/mmm/yy:hh:mm:ss" (apache logs), integer based time series (date) and hourly time series in seconds
  - In text files, milestones are recognised as integers >0 or non empty strings
  - Enter a range of columns for data
  - Supports a regular expression for matching or exclusion of data in the file
  - Defaults to respecting quotes (double and single) as whole entities. Adding quotes to delimitor disables quote handling.
- Changed End Date to represent the end of the day instead of the start of the next day
- Fixed Reset Time button to ignore unselected timelines
- Improved error handling under oversized bitmap conditions

Other features!
- Merge up to 5 projects in to one timeline
- Save a timeline as an image (PNG)
- Show resources on a timeline (set in Display Settings)
- Present a timeline by clicking through each entry
- Step forward or back in timeline. (Use arrow keys, space/backspace or mouse buttons), and Fullscreen!
- Filter tasks based on task level
- Set different line/text colours per timeline
- Build timeline based on preset or custom date ranges
- View a timeline in daily, weekly, monthly or yearly units
- Saves configuration on a per user basis - files/fonts/text/line color settings preserved!
- Customise timeline font
- Display Task End and Shaded Start/End Range
- Milestones in bold, Estimated tasks in Italics
- Items listed in date order on the same week/month etc.
- Print a timeline (1 Page)

[more detailed change history]

Timeline Presenter can be downloaded in trial form (using the link above).
The following constraints exist in the trial:

Maximum of 30 entries allowed
Task Level Filtering Disabled
Printing Disabled
Presenting Disabled

Current developments

Improved Large Timeline Handling: Rendering only draws whats needed, not the whole image every time.
Improved Busy Pointer feedback
Date low/high field selection for delimited files
Now recognizes date format "DAY MMM DD HH:MM:SS YYYY"
1.6 beta 1

Future Enhancements

Additional Graphical Customisation
- Different Fonts for Items, Timescales etc
- Different Layouts for timelines (entries below x axis, mirrored views, overlapping themes)
- Optimized bitmap handling for faster display
Mouse wheel/hot key support to scroll bitmap
Fit to Window with Auto Task Leveling
Multi-page Printing
Add a batch mode to save images automatically

Timeline Presenter : $50.00

Timeline Presenter Download - SoftwareArray.com

February 2011

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