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Gantt View Can Be Printed

You can now print a Gantt view. The Printable View icon on the Gantt chart displays a read-only view of the tasks you want to print in a new window. You can view a maximum of 300 tasks at a time. The page height automatically fits the tasks, and the page width automatically fits the column and period configuration.

Before you print the Gantt view, select the background colors and images option in the browser menu.

Note: Use the Alt key to enable the browser menu for Internet Explorer and Firefox.

CA Microsoft Project Interface Changes

The following Release 13.3 changes were made for the Microsoft Project Interface:

Resource Leveling

The CA Microsoft Project Interface supports the Microsoft Project Resource Leveling feature. If you do resource leveling in Microsoft Project and save the project into CA Clarity PPM, the resource leveling information is kept in the CA Clarity PPM database. The next time that you open the project in Microsoft Project from CA Clarity PPM, the resource leveling information that you entered is available.

Note: See the Microsoft Project documentation for more information about resource leveling.

Performance Tuning

The Microsoft Project Interface was tuned to improve performance in the following areas:

• Exporting a project from CA Clarity PPM to Microsoft Project
• Importing a project from Microsoft Project to CA Clarity PPM

Smaller projects show performance improvements for the import and export actions. Projects that have large time-scaled value data such as Assignment Actuals and ETC, or Baseline Cost and Usage Curve may not show the expected improvement.

Java Runtime Environment Is Provided

CA Clarity PPM provides a specific Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for use by Microsoft Project. The JRE is copied to the hard drive in the Microsoft Project Interface installation directory on the end-user workstation. The JRE is used for the Microsoft Project Interface integration and is independent of the JRE used for the Windows workstation.

The Microsoft Project Interface uses only the internal JRE version that is provided which we certify to be compatible. This approach eliminates issues that arise when the workstation Windows installation of the JRE is not the correct version or the JRE is missing. An IT department no longer has to update a JRE version when deploying the Microsoft Project Interface.

Silent Installation Support

In this release, the Microsoft Project Interface can be installed silently without any user intervention.

In previous releases, when you ran the Microsoft Project add-in setup, the Windows operating system displayed a message that the publisher could not be verified. You were then asked if you wanted to install the customization.

This message is no longer displayed. You receive a confirmation message after the add-in is successfully installed. The Microsoft Project Interface add-in setup closes the installer window automatically.