Highlights

• Prevent users from editing benefits or cost data
• Display single-day tasks on the Gantt chart
• Ability to mark required custom fields
• Limit the length of text and text area custom fields
• Initiative completion history
• Issues Resolved

Prevent Users from Editing Benefit or Cost Data

 It is hard to deal with accidental edit or delete, especially, if it involves crucial data such as the benefit or the cost series. In this version release, we are introducing a configuration setting that will enable you to prevent users from making accidental edits.

In Amplify, the data entry pages of a cost or benefit are available to any team member who has the 'write' permission on the benefit or cost object. This means that not only the owner of the benefit but any team member with the write permission can add, edit or delete the data points.

At some of our customer sites, it is part of the process to enable users to update benefit or cost values from time to time. However, we have some other customers, who totally rely on the fast-load function for benefit and cost data updates. The last thing you want, in this case, is to allow users to update the values that are directly imported from an externally maintained source. 

The new configuration provides a solution to manage the second scenario.

Prevent Editing of Benefit Data

To prevent benefit plan, actuals or forecast data series for editing, we have introduced the following settings in the benefit classification form.

Prevent Editing of Cost Data

To prevent editing of cost values, we have implemented similar settings on the cost category definition page. 

More information on how to do this can be found here. 

Display Single-Day Tasks on the Gantt Chart

If you create a task that has the same start and end date, it appeared as a milestone diamond on the chart, regardless of whether you set the 'Task Type' as 'Task' or 'milestone'. It is not possible to resize or mark the exact progress on a milestone diamond.

We have enhanced this behaviour. Now you can create single-day tasks and apply any progress percentage-value to it. Just ensure that the task type is set as "task", and it will show as resizable taskbar on the chart. You can operate it like any other task. However, instead of using the slider, you will need to use the grid or the Edit Task form to change the progress as the taskbar will be too narrow.

Ability to Mark Required Custom Fields

Custom fields allow you to capture additional data required for your business process or workflow.  Amplify provides different custom field types that will enable you to collect various types of data.

The only limitation is, these are optional fields. There is no way to ensure that some of these fields contained values before they are saved. In this version, we are providing an option by which you can easily make custom fields required.  Read more about it here.

If you change the settings of a field that is already in use, upon saving the changes, Amplify will display the names of objects where the field is being used. You can click on the name link to access and add values in the field so that the mandatory condition is validated.

Limit the Length of Text and Text Area Custom Fields

 If you wish to set a maximum length for the number of characters that can be entered in a text or text area custom field, you can do so using the new setting we have introduced on the new custom field form. If you don't want to set a limit, enter zero in this field.

 If you set a maximum length for a field that is already mapped and has existing entries that exceed the specified limit, you will be allowed to change the entry. When you make the changes to the field properties and click Update Field, Amplify will display the names of affected objects. You can click on each name link to access the field and update it to validate the field length limit.

Completion History For Initiatives

 When an initiative is marked 'Completed', that transaction will appear in the History tab. The history page will display whether the change was performed by the integration function or a user. The completed date and time will also be captured in this page.

Read all about the History tab here.

Issues Resolved