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ProjectLibre beta releasing on Thursday

August 29, 2012 - 07:15 am
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The ProjectLibre team is very happy to announce the beta version will be available for download on Thursday.  We need your help in promoting the availability!  There are many updates that have occurred over the past serveral months.  Our initial goal with ProjectLibre was to concentrate on a replacement of Microsoft Project Server.  However, the years of inactivity with OpenProj caused our retrenching and ultimately decided to have a new solution called ProjectLibre.  It was important to get the desktop project management replacement of Microsoft Project working first..... Our initial hopes for a quick turnaround were quickly dashed.  It has taken a dedicated 7 months to create ProjectLibre. In most areas ProjectLibre is a complete rewrite,  in the future it may be completely rewritten. 

We will send out a note on Thursday afternoon alerting everyone to the release.  Your feedback is appreciated!  We also are pleased so many people are signing up for the Global User Group.  This is the central correspondence but you can also join regional communities.  We will be announcing specific information for your regional groups as well. The ProjectLibre beta is a major improvement including:

  • Compatibility with Microsoft Project 2010
  • New Ribbon User Interface
  • Printing feature 
  • Major bug fixes and more

This is a screen shot of the new ProjectLIbre Gantt Chart.  It is important to note the ribbon user interface is related to what you are working on.... a major improvement for usability over the current release. 

ProjectLIbre Gantt Chart with ribbon user interface

 

Here is one more screen shot showing the ProjectLibre Network Diagram (I still like PERT Chart) Once again, the ribbon user interface is changeable based on your work.

 

ProjectLibre Network Diagram with ribbon user interface

 

Once again, it has been a long haul.  We are excited with the home stretch.  We have received a nice outpouring of support from the community. We have translation updates for Spanish, French, Russian. We have also had creative support for our logo and other areas.  The assistance is really appreciated!  Please send your feedback and stay active!  

11 Comments

In reply to by domu

August 31, 2012 - 21:48 pm

Yes, we have added a forum on https://sourceforge.net/p/projectlibre/discussion/buglist/  where you can add bugs.  Please keep in mind this first release does not have an installer.  We are adding that in the next two days.  Look forward to your feedback! 

In reply to by Silkhay

August 31, 2012 - 21:50 pm

I am running it on my Mac.  You can download the zip and click on projectlibre.jar and it will launch.  We are adding the installer later today or tomorrow.  That will be a better solution but it will run now....

September 30, 2012 - 00:56 am

Hi, I'm completely new to the product but love what I see so far.  Just had a question on whether there is a logfile of some sort that can help me diagnose issues I'm having with importing a Microsoft Project file in XML format that I created.  It's probably something I did wrong in the file creation, but don't see any error so am not sure where to start.  

 

Thanks!

October 2, 2012 - 01:27 am

Can you send us the XML file.... we have had a few people with issues and we want to triage the issue ASAP.  You can send it to [email protected]  We have a team looking at it now so very much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Marc