Powerful project management for Mac OS X

iTaskX provides the support you need for professional project management. When we developed iTaskX 2 we paid much attention on maintaining the simple and intuitive operating management of eTask 1 despite increased functionalities in iTaskX 2. No matter wether you have to carry out large construction projects, sophisticated media activities or detailed time schedules, iTaskX 2 adapts to your working processes and ensures an overview on you targets, dates, costs and the current status of your projects. iTaskX 2 supports you in making your projects more transparent in terms of organizing, monitoring or administrating your tasks.

Furthermore the seamless integration of the Aqua user interface of Mac OS X and the built-in guide enables users to become familiar with iTaskX 2 rapidly. Accordingly initial periods are reduced to a high extent und you will be able to achieve productive results with iTaskX in a trice.

iTaskX 2 Highlights

• Numerous customizeable views for tasks and resources.
• Page layout view for printer preview with additional printing options as e.g. "Fit to Page"or "Range from".
• Customized calendars for tasks and resources including import of iCal calendars.
• Editor for individual bars or bar styles.
• Definable text styles for all project tasks.
• Splitting tasks.
• Supports linking of summary tasks.
• Import of Resources from Address book, Directory server and Public Folders of Microsoft Exchange Servers.
• Effort driven scheduling.
• Working with a baseline to compare the updated schedule and actual progress against the original plan.
• For each task in the project a specific attachment can be assigned.
• iTaskX now also supports working with templates.
• New import and export formats like MS Projekt XML, MPX, OPML, CVS, TXT...
• Spotlight searching (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger).

Appearance

• Multiple Views (Gantt View, Tracking Gantt, Calendar, Network View).
• Possibility to format each table row individually.
• Possibility to adjust the height of each table row individually.
• Possibility to configure the displayed columns of each table.
• Extensive display options for the Gantt Bars (shape, color, shadow...).
• Extensive format options for the timescale.
• Individually configurable custom views.
• Page Layout View with page margins and complete set of controls to adjust the page settings for perfect print outs.

Usability

• Integrated Project Guide.
• Extensive Help files.
• Supports shortcuts and context-menus for importance commands.
• Interactive scheduling messages.
• Quick insert of multiple tasks through the help of a special sheet.
• Import of Resources from Address book, Directory server and Public Folders of a Microsoft Exchange Servers.
• Specialized views for scheduling and tracking.
• Provides specialized sheets for updating the progress of selected tasks or the whole project.
• Calculation of the project in real-time.
• Complete support for drag/drop in the Gantt views.
• Supports Templates.
• Spotlight searching (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger).

Scheduling and tracking

• Complete task constraints (start as soon as possible, start as late as possible, must start on, must finish on, start no earlier than, start no later than, finish no earlier than, finish no later than).
• Supports all possible task dependencies (Finish to Finish, Finish to Start, Start to Start, Start to Finish) and positive or negative lags for task links.
• Extensive task information's (over 60 task fields).
• Supports linking of summary tasks.
• Effort driven scheduling (standard).
• Configurable task types (Fixed Duration, Fixed Work and Fixed Units).
• Scheduled, base und actual task dates for effective tracking.
• Calculation of start slack, finish slack, free slack and total slack for tasks.
• Support of work (persons or groups of people) and material (supplies, stock or other consumable items) resources.
• Support of work and overtime work for assignments.
• Support of time units for assignments units (for example, 5 Liter/h) of material resources.
• Supports Fixed Costs, Cost per Use, Standard Rate and Overtime Rate.
• Possibility to specify the cost accrual (Start, Prorated, End).
• Supports of different calendars for the project, timescale, tasks and resources.

Data exchange

• Microsoft Project XML format.
• Microsoft Project MPX format.
• Tab separated values.
• CSV (Comma-Separated-Values).
• iCal calendar format.
• OPML format.
• Possibility to export each view as image (PDF, JPG, TIF, PNG).