Aspose.Tasks for Java 8.5.0 Release Notes

Major Features

We have supported several important features this release. Ability to extract objects embedded in task or resource view form, page settings writing into mpp format, reading Header and Footer data from MPP files have been implemented. One bug has been fixed. Please, see details below.

All Changes

Issue Type Key Summary
New Feature TASKS-16019 Read Header and Footer data from MPP files.
New Feature TASKS-33987 Adding Extended Attributes to ResourceAssignment for visibility in MSP
New Feature TASKS-33968 Support MPX format for reading.
Enhancement TASKS-30859 Custom Fields should ignore invalid characters
Task TASKS-27144 Ability to extract objects embedded in task or resource view form
Task TASKS-34043 TASKS-27144 Implement embedded Bitmap Image extraction from views.
Task TASKS-34042 TASKS-33909 Implement PageSettings writing to mpp
Bug TASKS-34056 Wrong calculation of assignment units after changing the task duration

Public API and Backwards Incompatible Changes

The following public classes were added:

Class name Description
Border Specifies the border types.
HeaderFooterInfo Represents header or footer data which is present in views and used for printing.
Legend Specifies the pages on which the legend appears.
OleObject Represents an object which is inserted into the mpp file.
OleObjectCollection Represents a collection containing the instances of the OleObject class.
PageInfo Represents page setup data which is present in mpp file format and used for printing.
PageLegend Represents a page legend which is used for project printing.
PageMargins Represents page margins for printing.
PageSettings Represents printing settings for a page of project view.
PageViewSettings Represents printing settings for a project view.
ParseErrorArgs Provides data for the ParseErrorCallback delegate.
ParseErrorCallback Represents a method callback to handle parse errors that can happen when reading xml data.

The following public fields were added to existing classes:

Field Name Description
com.aspose.tasks.FileFormat.MPX MPX file format

The following public methods were added to existing classes:

Method Name Description
com.aspose.tasks.Project.getOleObjects Returns a collection containing the instances of the OleObject class which are linked or embedded to this project file.
com.aspose.tasks.View.getPageInfo Represents page setup data which is present in mpp file format.