Release Notes
Welcome Screen and User Logon
New Style to the Standard Reports
Extended Reports Options
Resource Spreadsheet
Other Revisions

Having installed your new Hornet system you will already be familiar with the new customised welcome panel (or Splash screen as it is commonly known). This blue style panel will display the users details when Hornet is first started on your system, it is removed automatically.

If your Hornet system is to be operated by several users then you may wish to set-up a series of user Logon names and passwords. This will restrict access to Hornet to those users who have been given access codes by the System Administrator and will also restrict these users to load only their projects (or projects that have been granted access to a wider audience). For further details refer to the System Administration help page, or contact Hornet Support. You do not have to use this facility if you do not wish to, just leave the Hornet start up procedure as it is and you will have free access within the Hornet System.

We have upgraded the operation of the Hornet Standard reports to use a new Tabbed style of mask display. These screens have been added to all the 'Quality' or graphical style of reports (these reports viewed and printed through GraWin) and makes the reports much easier and quicker to access. Each report now includes its own settings for output style, notes and revision details, with the Tab markers giving direct access to all settings. You can save a series of standard options for each report and select any of these configured options when you re-run the reports.

All new masks have their own help pages defined and instructions on manipulating the data values are given on the help page.

Hornet's tabbed style of report masks are not available for user's own custom reports as a standard system facility. If you do wish to use these styles in your reports then contact Hornet Support for further details.

In response to requests from users the Standard Reports have been extended to include some new features:-

1. A second logo may be added to the reports allowing the company logos to be added to the top left and/or top right corners of the report header;
2. On bar chart reports the bottom timescale displays (showing dates, months etc.) may be omitted - this is a useful option when printing on A4 or A3 paper sizes;
3. Further options on the display of the vertical dividing lines on bar charts and histograms - the lines are coloured at week, month, quarter and year divisions and you can stipulate at what interval these lines are to be drawn;
4. An option for Annual Week Numbers has been added for both the printed reports and the dates scale on the screen bar chart - this option is included on the Project Settings panel.

We have received many requests from Hornet 5000i users for the Resource Spreadsheet to be returned to the system and this is now included. This spreadsheet allows you to display a series of resource usage profiles (the values that make up the histograms) in columnar spreadsheet display. Project dates are shown down the left. The facility is entirely menu driven and includes the following features - many of which will be new to Hornet 5000i users:-

1. Load up to 64 different resource usage profiles;
2. Resource overload values highlighted;
3. Convert profiles to and from s-curve status;
4. Summary panel showing resource totals etc.;
5. Add resource profiles together to make combined profiles;
6. Condense the timescale to show weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual totals;
7. Cut and paste resource data values (as above totals) to and from other spreadsheet applications;
8. Edit the resource profiles manually to set required values;
9. All calculated and combined resource profiles can be viewed and printed as histogram reports;

Other options and facilities have been revised in this release of Hornet Windmill:

1. The help pages have been extended to cover a wider area of the system and recent changes have been included. We are also introducing a two level help system on all major display panels - press F1 for a specific data field or column help or press Shift + F1 for more general help on the current display panel;
2. When creating calendars for your project you can specify which calendar is to be used as the default 'activity calendar' on the Calendar Management panel File menu (as well as on the Project Settings panel);
3. A new split grid function has been added to the main Activity Data grid - Lock Left Columns on the Window menu - which will hold the Activity Number column at the left of the screen display;
4. As indicated above the Standard Reports have been upgraded and are included on the standard menus. The older 'draft' or text based versions are still included on your Hornet system but are not installed as a standard option - if you wish to include these older reports on your system and Hornet menus then you should select this option when running the Hornet Setup program.

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