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It is now possible to print Gantt charts to paper or PDF. To do this, first open a workflow or project and press the Gantt Chart button.

The Project Calendar gives a project portfolio manager a detailed overview of all projects and their tasks combined.

Project managers who have multiple projects in their portfolio can now have an overview of the baselines of all their projects.

It is now possible to include links in notification emails that enable people to approve or reject a task by replying to that email.

It is now possible to send emails from problems, releases, workflows, tasks, projects, project tasks and risks using the user interface.

When editing a project task to add an assignee for that task, a user can now easily link him- or herself.

Several fields of project records that could previously not be accessed by automation rules are now available for automation.

Generic automation rules can be added to project tasks, for example to assign a project task to a person, team, or agile board.

The Financial Manager role has now been given the rights needed to read and update the value in the Cost per hour field of skill pools.

The start date and time is now included in the warning message when the assignee should not yet start to work on a task.

Many of the actions available in the Xurrent toolbar can now be used to update multiple records at the same time.

After opening a task in Xurrent Self Service or in the Xurrent App it is now possible to review the Gantt chart of the task's project or change.

Organizations can now automatically include a link for starting a Microsoft Teams chat session in each Xurrent person record.

The minimum planned effort for the completion of a task that is part of a change or project has been reduced from one minute to zero.

A few more date range filters have become available to create more specific views and reports of several record types.

When a specialist saves a record with a new note and a value in the Time spent field, the note gets linked to the time entry that Xurrent generates.

The Time spent and the Remaining effort fields of project tasks are now always available, regardless of the organization's timesheet settings.

Going forward, Xurrent will prompt specialists to specify how much time they spent after they entered information in the Note field.

Xurrent no longer makes the Note field required for a specialist if the same specialist added the previous note less than an hour ago.

To provide an even more complete overview of changes and projects, Xurrent now presents the current status of each task in the Gantt chart.

Xurrent’s Service Navigator could already be opened from requests, problems, changes, releases, projects and SLA reports. Now it is also possible to open the Service Navigator from change tasks and project tasks.

Finished tasks now have their own separate view in the ‘My Inbox’ section of Xurrent Self Service and the Xurrent App.

A total of 6 new reports have been added for the support of the Project Management process.

Two more reports have been added to the 'Reports' section of the Analytics console for the change and project management processes.

To facilitate more precise resource planning, Xurrent now allows the planned duration and planned effort to be specified in hours and minutes.

The formatting bar of the Note fields now offers the ability to add references to other Xurrent records, such as requests, problems, changes and tasks.

Xurrent’s Inbox console has undergone a major makeover. The new Inbox console offers a whole set of helpful usability features.

Project, change and release managers are now able to see the time that their colleagues spent on the on the work they coordinate.

The order in which the requests that are linked to a change are presented within that change has improved. In the past, the requests would be sorted by their ID. Now they are sorted first by their status and then by their ID. This improved sorting also affects the sorting of: Requests within a problem […]

Automation rules can now be added directly to task templates.

When you open a change or project in View mode and you click on a task within the small Gantt chart that is presented at the bottom of the screen, this task is presented in a popup over the change or project. If you have the access rights to edit this task, you can then […]

To ensure that change managers do not unintentionally affect a change template when they update a task template, they are now warned when this could happen.

Change managers have provided useful feedback that has been used to perfect the Gantt Chart interface they use to plan their changes.

Change managers can now plan their changes using a Gantt chart that offers of graphical representation of their implementation plans.