Release Notes

Welcome to the Fortes Change Cloud release notes. Every release has its own set of articles describing what changed and how it works.

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Release 22

• Accessibility Improvements — keyboard navigation, focus visibility, colour contrast, and zoom, working towards WCAG 2.2 level AA.
• Archive Hour Rates — archive hour rates you no longer use.
• Custom Page Tab on Project — build a project page from named sections with field and list segments.
• Dark Mode and High-Contrast Theme — pick light, dark, high contrast, or follow your system.
• Export Reference IDs in Timeline Reports — include the IDs of reference fields when exporting to Excel.
• Filter Teams on Team Fields — filter the capacity planning Teams pane on any team field, not just name and tags.
• Financial Funds in Portfolio — allocate and track budget across portfolio items using funds.
• Model-Based Views — define views centrally on a model and reuse them on every linked object.
• New Knowledge Base — a rebuilt, searchable, versioned knowledge base in English and Dutch.
• Numeric Entries in Workflows — collect planning numbers straight from a workflow task.
• Portfolio AI Assistant — ask questions about your portfolio through an AI assistant.
• Power BI Dashboard on Project — an embedded Power BI report on its own tab in the Project app.
• Replace a Reference in Planned Hours — swap a resource, skill, or team without rebuilding your planning.
• Stage Workflows on Portfolio Items — request stage-appropriate data per item and follow it from the item itself.
• Team Availability in Reporting — read the capacity a team offers its portfolio in the Entries report and in Power BI.
• Two-Way Sync with Azure DevOps — changes now flow back to Azure DevOps, with a direction per field.

Release 21

• Custom Fields on Cards with Model — add your own fields on Funnel cards, also when the portfolio follows a model.
• History in Properties Panel — open the history log straight from the Properties panel.
• Import Kanban Items via Integration Dashboard — import plan items of type Kanban through the Import/Export module.
• Improved Archive for Portfolio Items — a redesigned archive in the Portfolio app.
• Page Layout Editor for Portfolio Workflows — design custom page layouts for workflow configurations.
• Planning Intervals from ART Model — define Program Increments and Sprints centrally on an Agile Program Model.
• Power BI Performance Improvements — dashboards and BI Connectivity data load significantly faster.
• Report Model on Project Start — pick a report model when starting a project from a portfolio.
• Reset Power BI Dashboards from Model — restore an embedded dashboard to its default template.
• Views in All SPM Components — save, select, and manage views across all SPM components.
• Visual Calculations in Power BI Dashboards — add visual calculations to embedded dashboards.
• Workflow Import Wizard — a clearer, easier way to import data into a workflow task.