We’re excited to announce the availability of UMT360 v6.0, a major release supporting SharePoint 2016, 2019 and Project Online. This release includes a set of new features, as well as various enhancements across all product areas. All previously released public updates and private hotfixes are also part of v6.0. We strongly recommend that any release is validated in a non-production environment first before being applied to production environments.

Here is a list of changes that will be introduced with this release:

• Major new features:
  • UMT360 Entities and Fields
    • Stand-alone Entity Types (based on SharePoint Lists) are being replaced by UMT360 Entities. New features are available for UMT360 Entities, including configurable Fields with improved UI controls
  • UMT360 Teams
    • Flexible Team definition, supporting partially allocated resources to multiple teams
    • Automatically derive team capacity based on the capacity of each team member
    • Manage work assignments in resource plans using Teams, individual resources or a hybrid between the two
    • Mix and match team assignment and individual Resource assignments for a complete picture of the work being done in your organization
• Roadmap Manager
  • Added the ability to Group By and Filter By multi-select fields in both Timeline and Boards roadmap types
  • Added the ability to Sort By in Boards roadmaps
  • Made the Summary Field setting optional when defining Board roadmaps
  • Added the ability to resize Board roadmap columnsusing drag-and-drop
  • Added the ability to quickly Show Related Entities in Timeline roadmaps
  • Added the ability to manually select colors when grouping by Choice type fields
  • Enhanced the Search mechanism used in the Entity List pane
  • Groups are now alphabetically ordered in Timeline roadmaps
  • Fixed issue with sorting being reset after changing the position of a group in Timeline roadmaps
• Portfolio Manager
  • Enhanced the Search mechanism used in the Backlog pane
  • Fixed issue with entities not being displayed in the UI after adding an entity from the Backlog
  • Filtered out Financial Nodes that are not used by Entity Types included in a Plan
  • Improved usability of the Roadmap vertical scroll bar
  • Added CurrentEntityStatus column in ScenarioResourceValuesYearlyTotals OData view
  • The AvailableHours column from the ScenarioResourceAvailabilityYearlyTotals OData view will no longer include Backlog entities
• Resource Management
  • Fields from the Display Filter dialog are now alphabetically ordered in both UMT360 My Resource Plans and UMT360 My Resources web parts
  • Users are no longer required to perform a Save operation when adding Resources to a resource plan
  • Improved performance when querying AssignmentValues OData view
• Other
  • Added the ability to define a date range for which time-phased resource information is maintained for reporting purposes
  • Added the ability to change the UMT360 Security Group owner in the Manage Groups administration page
  • Improved the node selection in the Display Filter dialog from all financial web parts
  • Fixed issue with Reporting Entity Changed queue job timing out when “Enforce the use of Allocation Centers” setting was in use
  • Fixed authentication issue when using an extra blank space at the end of the URL
• Programmability (CSOM interfaces)
  • Added CRUD operations for UMT360 Teams Assignments and Team Assignment Values
  • Added UMT360 Entity Added, UMT360 Entity Updated and UMT360 Entity Deleted Remote Event Handlers
  • Added support to register all UMT360 Event Handlers as Webhooks
  • Fixed minor issues with reading UMT360 Resources via CSOM
  • Fixed issues with existing Financial Custom Fields values not being updated via CSOM

Visit the UMT360 Product Version History page for version details. Customers and Partners can download v6.0 via the online portals on www.umt360.com.