Navigation:  7.21 (QDV 2021) > 7.21.0912

Released on November 25, 2021

Bug fix: After Check and repaint, the contents of the free area and the formatting of the Options header in WBS were lost

The free area in WBS is the area just above Options section where the user can enter free text. This text was lost after execution of Check and repaint operations. Similarly, the custom formatting of the Options header was lost as well. This problem was introduced in beta 7.21.909.

New: Merging extended to prevent “Unique field handling” dialog

The “Unique field handling” dialog popped up for all rows having unique fields different from parent and children. We’ve added the check box “Apply this answer to all in the current merging operation” to prevent this.

New: Solver for the quantities in the minutes

The minutes can contain complex calculations for the quantities because a lot of fields can be involved in this calculation: Throughput, Quantity Factor, Quantity Percentage, Quantity Number, Quantity of Parent set, QEval, etc.

So, when you want to reach a specific value it’s not always easy to calculate the fields you need to adjust.

For this purpose, QDV now contains a solver which can be displayed when your cursor is located in one of the following columns:

QUANTITY_X_QWBS, QUANTITY_FOR_QEVALWBS, QUANTITY_FOR_QEVAL, QUANTITY

To display the solver, place your cursor in a valid row of one of these columns and press F2 key as you would do to edit a regular column. The solver will pop up with all columns involved in the calculation of the quantity:

Just input the figure you want to reach in the red cell and press ENTER key. The light-green column will be adjusted to reach your value. You can select any column amid the green cells to be the adjusted column.

Undo operations are supported for these actions.

You may get the following message when the solver cannot reach your figure:

This will happen when your rounding levels do not allow your figure to be represented. For example, when you have this:

Your layout must have some complexity in the calculation of the quantities to display the solver. At least, you need the FORMULA_FOR_QUANTITY field in your layout.

At this point, the solver won’t show if you have a formula in the native quantity field. However, we’ll work on it on the coming months to also handle this case.