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Project Perfect Members Club

Saturday, June 16th, 2012

For those of you who regularly visit our site, you will not have seen much activity over the last few weeks. We have been busy building a whole new area for you. Welcome to the <b style=”color:black;background-color:#ffff66″>Project Perfect Members Club.</b> As well as our library of over 150 white papers, we offer lots of other goodies.

  • Free software.  Get our Meeting Administrator and Method H software for free.  Method H normally sells for A$35.
  • Project Management Templates.  A whole range of templates to help you with your project management.
  • User Guides.  Documents that guide you through regular tasks such as risk management, carrying out interviews, managing scope, and lots more.
  • 40% discount on a single user license for Project Administrator when you pay an annual subscription to the members club.  The discount pays for your annual subscription.
  • Access to Software Package Selection Process.  SP2 is our online methodology for undertaking a software selection and implementation. Most of the methodology is applicable to any project.

There is lots more to come.  We plan to expand the offerings to make our members club a vital part of any project managers toolbox.

You can subscribe for A$10 per month and cancel at any time.  If you want to save some money, pay an annual subscription of A$100.  At the time of writing this post – mid June 2012 – the A$ is on parity with the US$. A$1 = US$1.

Click here to register.

Click here to find out more.

Project Administrator for Office 2010

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

We have just released a beta version of Project Administrator project management software for Microsoft Access 2010. There are versions for Access 2010 32 bit and Access 2010 64 bit versions.
As they are beta versions, we ask you let us know of any unexpected events. Send an email to support@projectperfect.com.au with any attached screen prints and we will try and fix your problems.

Pin a document to the Quick Launch Taskbar

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

I came across this little technique which applies to the Windows Taskbar.  If you try and put a Word Document or an Access Database in the quick launch taskbar, you end up with a link to open Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Access.  If you used another icon, for example the icon for a particular Access program, it is replaced by the standard Microsoft application icon.  There is a way around this.  We discovered it for our Project Administrator project management software which has a particular icon.

  • Create a desktop icon for the document/spreadsheet/presentation/database you want to open.
  • Change the properties to include the icon you want to use.
  • Change the properties to make the path two parts.  The first is to the program opening the document/spreadsheet/presentation/database and the second part the actual document/spreadsheet/presentation/database.  Here is an example for a Microsoft Word Document.  Assume we have an Agenda document we want to pin to the taskbar.

“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE” “C:\My Documents\Meetings\Agenda.docx”

  • Drag the shortcut to the quick launch taskbar and you have finished.

I hope people find that a useful tool to open frequently used files.

Project Administrator using Microsoft Access 2010 64-bit

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

We have had some enquiries from users who have 64-bit versions of Office (not 64-bit versions of Windows).  We do not support Access 2010 64-bit. If you have this version of Access, you will need to install a 32-bit runtime version of Access to run PA. For more information read the following Microsoft Technical Bulletin.

It seems Access 64 bit is still a bit immature for running many applications.  This is from the article above.

“Office 2010 lets users continue to use existing Microsoft ActiveX Controls, Component Object Model (COM) add-ins, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which are primarily 32-bit because no 64-bit versions are available yet for many add-ins. Supporting 32-bit Office 2010 applications that run on 64-bit operating systems allows for better compatibility with controls, add-ins, and VBA.”

Having read this, carried out our own testing, and talking with other developers, we will not be supporting Office 64-bit at this stage.  When it becomes more mature we will reconsider.

If you are running Windows 7 64-bit and  Access 32-bit you can run PA.

Project Administrator sold in 51 countries

Friday, March 11th, 2011

After sitting on 50 for a few months – Botswana was country number 50 – we have now sold in our 51st country.  The honour goes to Austria.  We just sold a 5 user license to a company in Austria.  Hopefully they speak English.

Project Administrator Build 12 released

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Today we have released build 12 of Project Administrator Project Managment Software.  Build 6 addresses two minor bugs relating to the use of distribution lists in emails, and being able to select all projects when viewing the project screen.  We also added an enhancement to enable version update checking to be suspended.  This was requested by an organisation that wanted to roll out upgrades themselves rather than have prompts to download from the web when an upgrade was available.

Project Administrator without Microsoft Access

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

You can now download our Project Administrator Project Management software even if you don’t have Microsoft Access installed.  We have developed a version that installs an Access runtime file that will allow you to use the software. Project Administrator enables a project manager to manage the schedule, risks, issues, actions, changes, budgets and expenditure, documents, roles and responsibilities and much more – all through one piece of software.

Download a fully functional 30 day trial version by clicking here

If you would like to find out more information click here, or view some videos.

Project Administrator with SQL Server

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

In the most recent release of our Project Management software, we have carried out some changes to allow you to upsize to SQL Server using the Access upsize wizard. Whilst most people will not need to do this, it is now an option. For more information click here.

What’s new in Version 6 of Project Administrator?

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Version 6 was released in October 2010.  It is a major step forward and includes:

  • New security process. PA no longer relies on native Access security.  Security can be set up for each user to access screens and reports
  • Help on each screen.  Help is available at screen level, and field level
  • Ability to update help. In addition, you can add your own comments to the help screens.
  • Option to turn off updates to help screen.  Each installation can be set up by the system administrator to either be able to modify the help screens, or restricted from modifying the screens.
  • Gantt chart. If your needs for scheduling are basic, you can create your own Gantt chart in PA.  If you want, you can still use Microsoft Project for your Gantt chart.
  • Able to track changes to the program. You can now track each change that occurs in PA.  History tracking can be turned off or on.
  • Automatic update of latest version. PA now checks online for a new version.  If it finds a new release, it will ask you if you want to download.
  • One button linking of database. No more having to delete old links and create new ones.  It is all done with one button.
  • Show the total number and completed actions for issues, risks etc.
  • This facility was available on meetings but is now on all action item screens.  If you have an issue, you can immediately see how many actions there are for the issue, and how many still outstanding.
  • Rearranged admin to centralise configuration at rollout. This will make rollout much easier.  When you install PA on a desktop, the system administrator only had to ensure two tabs of the admin screen are completed for the user to be ready to go.
  • Easier management of project access. Setting up project was another tedious task we have simplified.  It is now much more straight forward to manage who can see which project.
  • New Logon on process. There is now a simple logon screen that does not rely on Access.
  • Click magnifying glass to open expanded screen. Previously the magnifying glass indicated that you could right click the adjacent field to open an expanded window.  You can still do that, but now you can also click the icon to open the window.

We have also produced a 10 minute video to show you some of the features.  Click here to see the video.  If you like that video, we also have a range of other videos available to demonstrate features in Project Administrator.

Project Administrator Videos

Monday, November 8th, 2010

We have just launched a series of videos to take you through the main functions in Project Administrator. They range from setting up a project, to our new Gantt chart to managing issues and risks.  It is an opportunity for new users to understand how to use the software, and for potential purchasers to see the product in action.

For more information click here