Release Summary
KeyedIn Enterprise v8.4.0 is a quarterly release with features and options available to support work management and business processes. Highlights of this release include Task Plan and GANTT enhancements, graphical workflow support for custom entities, Enhanced Forecasting updates, and an introduction to Sciforma’s user interface theme.
The release also includes many support fixes. Customers will be notified separately via our internal Support process for any of their tickets that have been resolved in this Release.
Highlights of New Features and Improvements
Task Plan – Schedule from end
A new option to set the end date of the project plan and work backwards to automatically calculate the start date of the plan.
Task Plan – Calculate percent complete
New option to calculate percentage complete for a task based on the planned effort compared to actual approved hours.
Task Plan – Display options
Additional display options to improve project visibility and make task management easier in the GANTT.
Custom Entities – Option to enable types and workflows
A system configuration option to enable types and workflows for custom entities allowing for business processes and variations in operations associated with custom entities.
User Interface – New Sciforma Themes
A new set of themes are available to introduce a common look and feel between Sciforma’s suite of applications and Vantage platform support.
Portfolio Analysis – Analysis tab views publishing to multiple login groups
Following the operations of My Work, Project, and Insights, users can publish Portfolio Analysis views to multiple login groups.
Enhanced Forecast – Data load demand for multiple forecasts
A new data load is available on the Search pane to bulk load and data load demand related to multiple projects and forecasts at the same time.
Project Finance Tab – Benefits available for analysis
The inclusion of benefits on the Finance tab allows companies to evaluate and perform analytics on project related benefits.
Project Finance Tab – Extended period view to 60 periods
Additional support for more period selections is available on the Finance tab to further evaluate and review a larger number of periods related to the projects, up to 60 periods.
Preview – New custom field Cascading field data type
Introduction of a new Cascading field data type that allows for parent/child keywords for use as a drop-down selection for user to select any value in the hierarchy.
See attached Release Guide for more details.
The service will be unavailable during the following maintenance windows.
| Data Centre | Affected Services | Maintenance Window |
| UK (keyedinenterprise.co.uk) | Web Portal, APIs | Wednesday 8th January 2025 between 00:00 and 02:00 BST |
| USA (keyedinenterprise.com) | Web Portal, APIs | Wednesday 8th January 2025 between 04:00 and 06:00 EDT |
| Australia (keyedinenterprise.net) | Web Portal, APIs | Thursday 9th January 2025 between 02:00 and 03:00 AEST |