Luckily, OmniPlan is great at those too! Here you’ll find details on all the formats the app can understand and export, as well as details on Microsoft Project support present in OmniPlan Pro. Chapter 12, Importing and Exporting OmniPlan contains all the tools you need to execute projects at all levels of complexity, but sometimes external requirements call for interaction outside the OmniSphere. This chapter details the settings each inspector provides for your Project Info, Milestones, Tasks, Resources, Styles, Custom Data, and Attachments. Chapter 11, Using the Inspectors As you move between views in OmniPlan, the inspectors bring continuity to your experience and provide detailed access to controls for whatever aspect of the project you’re working on at the moment. Styles View is where you’ll go to customize the visual side of your project at a high level, and this chapter explains how it’s done. The app also offers a full set of tools for customizing your document’s presentation, from styles affecting the entire project down to individual bar colors in the Gantt chart. Chapter 10, Working in Styles View OmniPlan includes a professional-grade default set of fonts and styles designed to clearly convey information about your project. It’s great for rapidly iterating on a new project or getting a strong representation of the relationships between tasks, and this chapter explains how to get the most out of this new view. Chapter 9, Working in Network View OmniPlan’s Network View provides a way to visualize and develop your project as a node-based diagram of tasks and groups (similar to a PERT chart). Establishing the working hours for your project, and universal and individual exceptions to them, are covered in detail here. Chapter 8, Working in Calendar View Tasks and resources are united in the calendar view, where schedules can be set for every aspect of the project to make sure goals are met on time. Accurately assessing and organizing your resources will help your project run at peak efficiency, and this chapter delves into how Resource View can help you do just that with tips on creating and assigning resources, making resource groups, tracking your project from a resource-based perspective, and the concepts of duration and effort. Chapter 7, Working in Resource View If tasks are a project’s building blocks, resources are its lifeblood. Since they live as optional columns in Task View, this chapter also introduces OmniPlan’s Earned Value Analysis tools to OmniPlan Pro users. This chapter explains how! Chapter 6, Working in Task View If you work on projects that are geographically distributed or have more than one contributor, or you’re responsible for multiple simultaneous projects, the collaboration (Pub/Sub) and multi-project dashboard features are tremendously helpful for managing even the most complex project states. Chapter 5, Collaboration and Multi-Project Review (Pro) OmniPlan Pro offers additional tools for more complex project arrangements. This chapter explains violations, scheduling and leveling, establishing and working with baseline schedules, catching up and rescheduling tasks, and other tools for ensuring your project accurately reflects the real world. When unexpected circumstances arise, adjusting the project will keep it shepherded toward the goal. Chapter 4, Maintaining Your Project After your project is up and running, OmniPlan helps you keep it carefully tended-like a bonsai tree-to help it mature into its final form. After you’ve worked through it you’ll have the tools you need to build your own project from the ground up. The tutorial guides you through the process of setting up and maintaining a project, from creating your first task to reaching the last milestone. Chapter 3, Working in OmniPlan: A Tutorial If you’re eager to get your first OmniPlan project up and running, this is the place to start. Nothing too deep just the basics to get you rolling-it’s a great place to start becoming familiar with OmniPlan’s various bits and pieces. You’ll learn about toolbar, the app’s five views (Task, Resource, Calendar, Network, and Styles), and, of course, the inspectors. Chapter 2, Getting to Know OmniPlan This chapter dives right in and gives you a top-down overview of OmniPlan’s user interface. Here you’ll find notes on the newest OmniPlan features, an introduction to the app, and guidance on how to get the most out of this manual. To help guide you through the documentation and better learn about all things OmniPlan, here’s a list of the chapters that you’ll find up ahead: Chapter 1, Introduction The chapter you’re perusing right now.
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