Time Architect (TA) extends Enterprise Architect (EA) by Sparx Systems by bringing time and project management functionality and additional tools directly into the EA workspace. Tightly integrated with EA, TA seamlessly utilises your models to help calculate and visualise your timelines, effort and workloads.

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Product Variants - Time Architect

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New Features

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Export To A Microsoft Project Workbook File

TA 2.2 allows user to export data to a Microsoft Project Workbook file, which can be simply imported to MS Project.

Save And Load Import Wizard Settings

TA 2.2 allows user to save and load import wizard settings, this includes import format settings, column mapping settings, tagged value mapping settings, element type settings and link type settings.

Save And Load Grid Column Layouts

The layout for the order, filter and frozen state of grid columns can be saved and loaded from TA 2.2, this is saved into a TA Column (.tacol) file and it can be re-distributed freely. Please see this topic for detail.

Read Link Stereotype Filter

TA 2.2 lets user customize TA's reading algorithm further more - it is possible to read only the dependency link stereotypes you wish to read. Please see this topic for detail.

Improved User Interface

• Settings dialog's 'Close' button has been changed to 'Cancel' button, which means when cancel button is clicked, all changes made to settings dialog will be cancelled.
• When assigning duration to an unallocated task, TA will assign resource 'unknown' to this task.
• View quick holiday information in resource management dialog.
• It is possible to give a task 0 hours for duration, and setting a task's duration to be 0 will mark this task as a milestone.
• Milestones are clickable and it is possible to turn milestone highlight on or off.
• Improved Multiple Element Properties dialog - able to specify three states of milestone property.
• It is possible to add multiple public/individual holidays at the same time.
• TA's 'Save' button becomes enabled after the redraw so user can save changes after TA's time calculation
• In Multiple Element Properties dialog, tagged value list reads predefined tagged value names too.
• Improved Add New Element dialog to allow quickly add a number of tasks - added an option to clear name and notes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem that might cause Excel Import to fail while merging by tasks only.
• Fixed a problem that after the Excel Import to create TA Tasks and Risks, also for add or move multiple TA Tasks and Risks, created EA elements are drawn incorrectly on the diagram.
• Fixed a problem in Package Mode, TA might draw Gantt Chart incorrectly when setting a root task to start later than project start date.
• Fixed a problem that TA may stop working for packages or elements that are locked or security protected.
• Fixed a problem that the tasks may not be drawn correctly for Start_Finish relationship while the parent task starts at day start time after a weekend (for example 9am on Monday).

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Features

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Key Features:

Draw Gantt Charts

Time Architect can take EA resource information and display it as a truly interactive Gantt Chart. Not only does this allow you plan your project, but it also allows you clearly see what needs to be done when. Project managers can quickly and easily build the chart in TA and modellers can use this to get to the relevant tasks/elements, just by clicking on the appropriate task in the Gantt Chart

Powerful Data Grid View of your model

Behind the Gantt Chart is a powerful data grid that allows full filtering, sorting and group by functionality. TA's grid allows you to manage multiple tasks/elements at the same time, not only updating Resource information (Resource, duration, start date etc.) but also EA data such as Phase, Version, Status, Tags and more.

Export data to Microsoft Excel format

Having selected the correct elements in the Data Grid, it is a simple matter to export this information out to Microsoft Excel. TA remembers your configuration of sort, column order, group by and filters and exports what you see to Microsoft Excel (.xls). In addition, you can also select to have the element notes exported, kickstart other processes outside of EA.

Multi Element Management

When project managing through TA or modelling in EA, you often need to manipulate many elements at the same time. Time Architect extends EA's functionality with the following capabilities:

• Move elements to package
• Add Elements to diagram(s)
• Delete Elements
• Add related element
• Change EA properties for multiple elements.

Quick Chart

• Kick start your project planning process. Time Architect can read your EA complexity/difficulty settings and assign definable durations to tasks based on these settings.

Time Calculations

• EA provides a resource tab that allows you to record who is doing something and when. This is only informational in EA - there is no relationship between the start time, end time and duration. Time Architect uses this information to calculate the timings of your project correctly. Project Managers can now plan, live inside EA. Modellers can see what needs to be done, by them, by when!

Project Review

Time Architect makes it easy to see which tasks need attention and which are OK. TA adds review functionality to the data grid showing which tasks are finished, due to start, late ending and more.

Powerful Visualisation

As well as adding a colourful, meaningful, interactive Gantt Chart, Time Architect adds a new dimension to your EA models. It is now easy to see the relationships between elements based on timescales as well as the normal, UML relationships.

Other Features:

Improved Resource Management

Time Architect is fully integrated into Enterprise Architect and builds on many of the existing EA dialogs and their associated data. When adding Resources to TA it is one simple dialog to add the new resource, yet the EA fields are populated correctly 'behind the scenes'. TA passes your task information back to EA through the project management/Resources tab, correctly populating all the relevant fields.