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Released on December 2, 2019

New: Copy / Cut / Paste operations take the database of the estimate into account

When you copy, cut tasks or branches in the WBS or copy, cut rows in the minutes; All possible articles or sets belonging to the database of the estimate referenced by the copied rows are also copied to the buffer.

When you paste from the buffer to an estimate which doesn’t already have all referenced articles and sets, a message prompts “Do you want to feed the database of the estimate from the buffer?”. If you reply ‘Yes’ all missing articles or sets are pasted to the database of the target estimate. Sets may refer to existing articles or sub-sets being already in the target database.

If you answer ‘No’ you’ll have a message listing the missing references as usual and you’ll have to manually adapt the database of the target estimate (this was the normal behavior before this extended feature).

Notice that this new implementation may lead to longer times when pasting if you answer ‘Yes’. This is because QDV must check which references are missing, paste them and adapt the target database.

If you answer ‘No’ the operation doesn’t take more time than before. However, the copy, cut operations now take a bit longer because referenced rows from the source estimate database are always copied from the buffer because QDV cannot know where they will be pasted.

Of course, this affects only estimates having the database of the estimate feature enabled.

Operations involving the glossary also use this feature when they are invoked from the WBS.

This extension is particularly sensitive because copy / paste operations are called from many places in the code so if you see any anomaly please report it.