What’s new in Aspose.Tasks for Java 24.10

Release Highlights

The Aspose.Tasks for Java 24.10 release introduces comprehensive support for graphical indicators in extended attributes, allowing both reading and writing to MPP files. Additionally, this version enhances resource validation and improves compatibility with XER file formats, ensuring smoother project imports and accurate scheduling data.

New Features

• Graphical Indicators API Added:
  Full support for adding and reading graphical indicators linked to extended attributes. The API allows precise configuration of criteria, value ranges, and indicator behaviors across summary, non-summary, and project summary rows.

Enhancements

• Resource Availability Validation:
  Introduced validation logic for resource availability periods, ensuring correctness and alerting on inconsistencies in assigned date ranges or units.

Bug Fixes

• XER Format Improvements:
  Fixed incorrect initialization of key scheduling values such as MinutesPerDay, MinutesPerWeek, and HoursPerMonth when importing Primavera XER files with version 6.0.0.

• TaskLink LagFormat Consistency:
  Corrected the issue where the TaskLink.LagFormat was not correctly inheriting the Duration.TimeUnit from the assignment context.

• Availability Period Export Fix:
  Resolved bugs in the export logic that caused inaccurate period values during resource availability serialization.

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Added Types

• GraphicalIndicatorCriteria
• GraphicalIndicatorsInfo
• GraphicalIndicatorCriteriaType
• GraphicalIndicatorCriteriaValue
• ResourceValidationException

Added Methods

• Support for accessing and manipulating graphical indicators via:

  • ExtendedAttributeDefinition.getGraphicalIndicator()
  • GraphicalIndicatorsInfo.getCriteria(), setShowDataValuesInTooltip(), etc.
  • GraphicalIndicatorCriteria constructors and value setters

• New constructor:

  • AvailabilityPeriod(Date, Date, double)

• Exception metadata:

  • ResourceValidationException.getResource()

Added Enumerations

• GraphicalIndicatorCriteriaType with values: NonSummaryRows, SummaryRows, ProjectSummary
• FilterComparisonType.IsAnyValue

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Visit the official documentation: Aspose.Tasks for Java 24.10 Release Notes

graphical indicator api | resource availability validation | mpp indicator export