Omniplan microsoft project

Project is one of those real strange MS apps. The kind with 4 rows of tabs that rearrange themselves when you click one. I hope never to use it again, but it does work as advertised, once you've memorized where the committee decided to put everything. Anyway, there are a number of alternatives to Project also.

I'd recommend trying out some of the free applications or OmniPlan long before dealing with Project. Merlin seems to be the most capable Project Manager on the platform.

I'm surprised that Merlin looks so much more professional than OmniPlan does, considering Omni's long history on the platform. The Omni Group seems to have gone for the 'iPlan' look, but tacked on a Microsoft Project-like price. Originally Posted by JohnnyTheA. Originally Posted by chucker. As usual with OmniGroup vs. Microsoft such as with OmniGraffle vs. Visio , it boils down to Omni's choice having far fewer features, but having those designed in a much friendlier, more sensible manner.

After saving a backup of your data, remove App Lock by deleting OmniPlan from your device and reinstalling it from the App Store. When you delete OmniPlan, your files—and your App Lock password—are deleted from the device. After reinstalling OmniPlan, you can set a new App Lock password and use iTunes again to load your OmniPlan files back onto your device. If, however, you have your files stored in the cloud—either on Omni Sync Server via OmniPresence or some other cloud storage system—you can skip the whole iTunes process and just delete and then reinstall OmniPlan from the App Store.

After choosing a password, App Lock is turned on. The App Lock Settings screen offers the option to turn App Lock back off, change your password, or enable Touch ID as an alternative means of unlocking OmniPlan on devices that support it.

To change your password, Tap Change Password You are prompted to enter your old password, and then to choose and confirm a new one. With App Lock turned on, the next time you open OmniPlan you will see a privacy screen with a field to enter the password you chose. Enter the password, and work resumes unimpeded.

If you choose to use Touch ID, a prompt for your fingerprint will appear instead. You will still have the option to enter your password, or you can tap the fingerprint icon next to the password field to unlock with Touch ID if you dismissed the prompt initially. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Managing Your Project Files Like many other document-based apps word processors, spreadsheets, and the like , OmniPlan keeps information about your projects in files that are stored for safekeeping either along with OmniPlan on your device, or in an account in the cloud where they can be synced and accessed from multiple devices.

Keeping Your Work Private with App Lock If you use OmniPlan on a device that you occasionally share with your children, coworkers, or clients, for example , there may be times when you would prefer that your OmniPlan data be out of reach. Device-level security measures are recommended for those with additional security needs. Return to Table of Contents. The suggestions may appear in Spotlight, on the lock screen, in Siri Settings, and in the Shortcuts application.

Assemble a beautiful dashboard to review your projects at a glance, and see how busy or idle each team member is across all of them. Set up publishing actions to sync your project with a calendar, to export the current state of your project schedule, or to execute a script, and run them with all with a single click or automatically any time the project is saved. If a resource is shared between multiple projects published to the same server repository, the scheduled task load for that resource across all published projects can be taken into account when leveling.

Measure progress at any point in the project, and forecast its completion date and final cost, without having to remember all of those EVA formulas.

Run multiple simulations in seconds to forecast milestone completion dates with varying levels of confidence. Let OmniPlan assign your best and worst estimates to account for every scenario. Full Omni Automation support provides user automation that is truly Apple device-independent. Scripts and plug-ins, written in JavaScript, can be shared and synced between iPhones, iPads, and Macs, enhancing your project workflows by delivering consistent and secure automation.

Automate OmniPlan with the classic Apple scripting language for Mac. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Gantt Charts. Network Diagrams. Project Outline. Resource View. Project Scheduling. New Project Assistant. Automatic Schedule Creation. Schedule Granularity. Undetermined Project Dates. Resource Leveling. Violation Resolution. Catch Up and Reschedule. Task Dependencies. Like the Activity-on-Node network diagram, this diagram type emphasizes dependencies. When exporting to a Work Breakdown Structure or an Activity-on-Node network diagram, you can choose between two different node Styles : nodes that represent tasks as basic objects which just show the task name or as tables which show the task name, assigned resources, start date and end date.

If you own OmniGraffle, you can style and edit diagrams exported from OmniPlan. Documents in the Microsoft Project. A newly opened Microsoft Project file appears in OmniPlan like this:. If errors appear in the document, you can use Report Problems in the blue Imported Document bar to let us know about them.

Click Done to dismiss the bar and get back to work. The following Microsoft Project formats are supported:. MPX is an older compatibility format that can be read by Microsoft Project and earlier and written by Microsoft Project 98 and earlier.

Microsoft Project to can read and write these formats. MPP is the preferred format for most interactions with modern versions of Microsoft Project; as an open standard, XML is useful for interaction with other applications as well. MPP files generated by OmniPlan will still open in older versions of Microsoft Project, but may not be as fully readable to them.

Older versions of Microsoft Project may prompt you to download an update or converter from Microsoft to support the newer file format exported by OmniPlan.