August 28, 2026 Release Notes

Release Summary

Work Plan

Summary: Work Plan enhancements give teams deeper control over how resources are managed over time, from time-phased assignment detail and expanded bulk assignment support, making it easier to plan precisely and see the full picture of resource usage.

Time-Phased Resource Assignments

• Detailed Assignment View: Manage time-phased resource assignments directly within the advanced edit work resource assignment view.
• Granular Control Over Time: Detail out any single assignment across its full duration, giving planners precise control over how work is distributed.

Resource Usage View

• Visibility Across Work Items: See work assignments at the time interval that matters most, across all work items in the plan.
• Better Capacity Insight: Understand how resource time is distributed to support more informed planning decisions.

Bulk Assign Material and Cost Resources

• Expanded Resource Types: Material and cost resources are now included in the bulk assign resources feature.
• Drag-and-Drop Simplicity: Drag and drop material and cost resources onto any work item, just as with work resources, for faster assignment.

Plan Detail Pages

Summary: Plan Details now support dedicated pages for more targeted data consumption, and rollup field updates deliver related plan data more quickly, improving the experience for large, complex datasets.

Dedicated Plan Detail Pages

• Targeted Data Views: Create specific pages within Plan Details to organize and present data for focused consumption.
• Support For Large Datasets: Improves the experience for plans with extensive data by letting users view exactly what's relevant.

Plan Rollup Field Performance

• Faster Data Delivery: Plan Rollup Fields update quickly when changes are made to related plans, keeping data current across the portfolio.

Dashboards

Summary: Dashboards now offer new ways to visualize and interact with portfolio, plan, and resource data. Widgets support more field types, new visualization options, and deeper customization, giving teams a clearer, more flexible view of what matters most across their portfolios.

New Treemap Widget:

• New Visualization Option: A new Treemap widget is now available for Portfolio, Plan, Global Resource Plan, and Modeler dashboards, giving teams a compact, proportional view of their data.
• Flexible Data Support: The Treemap widget supports resource plan, financial, and plan-level data, making it suitable for a range of reporting needs.

New Resource Capacity Data Source:

• New Data Source: A new resource capacity data source is now available at the Portfolio, Plan, and Global Resource Plan levels, giving teams more visibility into resource availability for planning.

Card Widget Enhancements:

• Expanded Field Support: Card widgets now support choice, lookup, and text type fields, giving teams more flexibility in the data they choose to surface.
• Field-Level Coloring: Individual fields on a card supports color coding based on field definition, making key information easier to scan at a glance.

Table Widget - Gantt View Enhancement:

• Timeline Visualization: The table widget now includes a Gantt view, letting teams visualize schedules in dashboards.
• Configurable Fields: Start, end, and progress fields can each be set independently, so the Gantt view reflects exactly the timeline data that matters.

Gauge Widget Enhancements:

• New Aggregate Functions: Additional aggregate function options give teams more ways to summarize and present key metrics.

Heatmap Widget Enhancements:

• Flexible Sorting: Heatmaps can now be sorted by values on both the X and Y axes, making patterns and priorities easier to identify.
• Updated Color Palettes: New color palette options allow teams to tailor heatmaps to their preferred visual style.

Lookup Field Support:

• Broader Dashboard Support: Lookup fields are now supported across Portfolio, Plan, and Modeler dashboards, giving teams more flexibility in the data they can bring into their views.

Financial Plan

Summary: Financial Plan updates bring material and cost resources and time-phased assignment data into the import process, add a rollup view for comparing related plans, and refine the viewing experience to keep users focused on what matters most to their plan.

Resource Import Enhancements

• Material and Cost Resource Import: The import now incorporates cost non-labor resources directly into the resource plan.
• Time-Phased Assignment Import: The import also accounts for time-phased work resource assignments from the Work Plan, keeping financial and resourcing data aligned.

Rollup Financial Plan View

• Compare Related Plans: View related plans' financial data directly within the financial plan of a given plan, making it easy to visualize and compare across plans.

Focused View Experience

• Relevant Data Only: The financial plan view now shows only what's relevant to the specific plan you're working in, keeping the experience streamlined and focused.

Financial Plan Administration in Front End

• Front-End Access: Administration is now available directly from the front end while working in the Financial Plan, removing the need to navigate to separate administration areas.

Resource Plan

Summary: Resource Plan updates improve planning accuracy with time-phased import support and bring administration directly into the front-end experience for faster, more convenient access.

Time-Phased Import for Work Resources

• Accurate Import Data: The import now supports time-phased data for work resources, ensuring imported plans reflect precise time-based allocations.
• Improved Planning Accuracy: Teams can rely on more granular, accurate data when bringing resource plans into OnePlan.

Resource Plan Administration in Front End

• Front-End Access: Resource Plan Administration is now available directly from the front end while working in the Resource Plan, removing the need to navigate to separate administration areas.

Project Connector

Summary: Scheduling data now flows between Microsoft Project and OnePlan with greater depth and precision, giving teams more complete visibility into costs, resource allocation, constraints, and dependencies across both platforms.

Resource Cost Table Synchronization:

• Cost Visibility: Organizations can now synchronize OnePlan's resource-level cost table with Microsoft Project, giving better accuracy when calculating cost.
• Flexible Control: This sync can be enabled on a per-file basis, so teams choose exactly which project files include cost table synchronization.

Time-phased Assignment Support:

• Granular Resource Planning: OnePlan now supports time-phased assignments during the Microsoft Project schedule sync, allowing resource allocation to be reflected across specific time periods rather than as a single total.
• Better Forecasting: This gives resource managers a clearer, time-based picture of how effort is distributed across a project's duration.

Task Constraint Type and Date Sync:

• Aligned Scheduling Rules: Task-level constraint types and dates now sync from Microsoft Project to OnePlan, keeping scheduling logic consistent across both platforms.
• Reduced Manual Work: Teams no longer need to manually re-enter constraint information in OnePlan after building it out in Microsoft Project.

Dependency Sync Enhancements:

• Preserved Relationships: External dependencies are now preserved in OnePlan when syncing from Microsoft Project, maintaining the full picture of how tasks relate across projects.
• Stronger Cross-Project Alignment: This helps teams manage interdependent schedules with greater confidence when multiple projects are linked together.

OnePlan Migration Tool

Summary: Enhancements to the OnePlan Migration Tool improve data accuracy during data migration by adding support for time-phased assignments.

• Import Time-phased Assignments: Organizations migrating from Project Online (or similar solution) can now bring over time-phased assignment data as part of the migration process, giving teams a more complete picture of resource allocation from day one.
• Improved Migration Accuracy: By importing resource allocation data ‘’enforcing resource-specific requirements during migration, organizations can reduce data inconsistencies and ensure migrated plans align with OnePlan’s resource model.
• Dedicated Migration Template: A new file template supports importing this data in its own structured format, making it easier to prepare and validate assignment data ahead of migration.

Timesheets

Summary: Timesheet updates give plan managers more control over where time can be entered and create a smoother, less disruptive day-entry experience for team members.

Day Entry Experience

• Flexible Detail View: Choose when to open entry detail while logging time, reducing unnecessary interruptions.
• Smoother Team Member Experience: A refreshed interaction design keeps day entry quick and focused.

Inactive Schedule Work Item Controls

• Focused Time Entry: Inactive schedule work items are now treated as ineligible for time entry, consistent with locked work items.
• Stronger Plan Control: Plan managers can ensure time is entered only against active, relevant work.

OnePlan Automations

Summary: Automations expand with broader backup coverage, a streamlined path from Plan notifications, and tighter tracking of approval activity, giving teams more complete oversight and less manual upkeep.

Automation Backup Coverage

• Global and Plan Automations Included: The OnePlan Backup Utility now captures Global and Plan automations based on your backup selection, ensuring a more complete backup of your organization's automation configurations.

Plan Notifications to Automations Upgrade

• Streamlined Automation Path: Plan notifications are upgraded to Automations, consolidating notification logic into a single, more powerful automation framework.
• No Action Required: The upgrade happens automatically, with no setup or migration work needed on your part.

Work Item Summary-Level Triggers

• Broader Trigger Support: Plan automations can now be initiated by triggers at the work item summary level, not just detail-level items.
• More Automation Coverage: Teams can automate a wider range of scenarios across the structure of their work items.

Automation Approval Notes in Work Item Comments

• Notes Tracked at the Source: Automation approval notes are now logged directly in the specific approval work item comments where the outcome is recorded, keeping decision context in one place.

Work Plan Performance Enhancements

Summary:  OnePlan now delivers a faster, more responsive experience across core planning activities. Teams can save work plan items, including backlog entries and tasks, more quickly, with the same speed benefits extending to any integration that adds or updates them. Schedules open and save more quickly as well, helping teams move through their plans without interruption.

 Schedule Performance: 

• Faster Schedule Loading: Schedules now open more quickly, helping teams get into their plans and start working without delay.
• Faster Schedule Saving: Updates to schedules now save more quickly, keeping teams moving as they make changes. 

Work Plan Save Performance in OneConnect Integrations:

• Faster Saving: Work plan items, including backlog entries and tasks, now save more quickly when using OneConnect integrations, helping teams keep momentum as they make updates.

OData Performance:

• Faster Data Access: OData endpoint performance has been enhanced, giving connected systems quicker access to OnePlan data.
• Smoother Integrations: Organizations relying on OData for reporting or integrations benefit from more responsive data retrieval.

Azure DevOps to OnePlan Integration

Summary: Organizations connecting OnePlan with Azure DevOps can now keep both systems continuously aligned, with updates flowing automatically from Azure DevOps to OnePlan and flexible controls to manage how that connection is applied across the portfolio using our new near real-time update feature. 

• Continuous Synchronization: Data updates made in Azure DevOps now flow automatically into OnePlan in near real-time, keeping project and portfolio views consistently up to date.
• Plan-Level Flexibility: Organizations can choose to opt out of automatic updates on a plan-by-plan basis, allowing teams to tailor the integration to their specific workflow needs.
• Dedicated Processing and Administration Support: A dedicated processing infrastructure handles updates at scale, while new administration screen makes it easy to configure and manage this feature on an ongoing basis.

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Configuring Near Real-time 

Resource Center

Summary: The Resource Center offers a more modern navigation experience alongside expanded view management, making it easier to work within the resource pool and manage Enterprise team views.

Modernized Resource Navigation

• Refreshed Experience: Navigating the Resource Center pool now features a more modern, streamlined design.
• Easier Day-to-Day Use: The updated experience makes it simpler and more intuitive to find and work with resources.

Enterprise Team Pool View Management

• View Management Capabilities: Create and manage views within the Enterprise team pool, tailoring what you see to your needs.
• Greater Flexibility: Quickly switch between views to focus on the resource data that matters most in the moment.