Tuesday, June 29, 2021

UniPhi 17 - Drag and drop style ordering of WBS

UniPhi 17 has a completely new structure to its contracts module and included in this is 'n' levels WBS. This new 'n' level structure has a host of additional features to assist in laying out your structure including:

  1. Free data entry (no more clunky add buttons)
  2. Indent and out-dent to capture the levels
  3. Drill in to focus on one level and one deliverable tree at a time
  4. And today's blog entry, the drag and drop re-ordering 

Unfortunately us humans do make mistakes and most of the above is there to assist in fixing mistakes more than it is to establish the structure in the first place. Before UniPhi 17, a user would use numbering to re-order. This became frustrating when you wanted to move a deliverable to the middle of the list.

Old re-ordering 

As the above list shows, if I wanted to move line 15 to line 9 I'd have to do a fair bit of work.

Now, a user can do the same thing in less than a second by simply dragging the deliverable to where they want it to be using the symbol .


This simple change will save users considerable time in managing the structure of their contracts.

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