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Can Seavus Project Viewer run on Microsoft® Windows Vista?
Yes, Seavus Project Viewer now supports the Microsoft® Windows VISTA Operating
System in addition to our currently supported platforms (Microsoft® Windows
2000 Professional & Server, Microsoft® Windows XP & Professional
Edition, Microsoft® Windows 2003 Server).
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If a project plan has a protected password, is it possible to open a file with Seavus Project Viewer?
Seavus Project Viewer now fully supports opening password protected files.
Project managers can decide to protect an .mpp file for
appropriate team members viewing only the project information.
When a user tries to open a password protected file with Seavus Project Viewer, a
dialog window pops up for the protected password.
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What type of file format is .ssv?
Seavus Secure Project File(.ssv) is a file format that is generated from
Microsoft® Project while using Seavus Secure View. It allows project
managers to lock and hide columns that contain information which is not
appropriate for certain team members' viewing and saves it in .ssv file format. When this
file is opened in Seavus Project Viewer, users view only the information
that should be displayed.
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Does Seavus Project Viewer support .mpp files created in Microsoft® Project 2007?
Yes, starting from Seavus Project Viewer 2007 version, all project plans
created in Microsoft® Project 2007 are fully supported. While working with
Seavus Project Viewer 2007, users can view a new 3-D style for
Gantt bars.
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Can I save custom settings that I have made while using Seavus Project Viewer?
Seavus Project Viewer allows you to save settings; Seavus Project Viewer gives you the
ability to upload these settings every time you open plans or upload to another
appropriate project.
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What is ODBC and what does Import from ODBC mean?
ODBC is an acronym for Open DataBase Connectivity and is a set of protocols,
drivers and instructions for storing an access route which works with
different data sources. The ODBC data source will allow Seavus Project Viewer
to access data in DBMS (DataBase Management System) using SQL as a standard for
accessing data and presenting this data to the user.
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How can I export project information in Microsoft® PowerPoint?
Seavus Project Viewer collaborates with Microsoft® PowerPoint trough the Export to
Microsoft® PowerPoint function. You select which task and its data should be exported.
The selected data then is exported in
Microsoft® PowerPoint in a previously prepared template, where you can make
changes in its presentation.
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Which file formats, besides .mpp can be opened by Seavus Project Viewer?
Seavus Project Viewer can open project files saved in the following file
formats: .xml, .xls and .mdb. In addition, Seavus Project Viewer can open
project files created in EasyProjectPlan (.xls file format).
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Which applications from Microsoft® Office collaborate with Seavus Project Viewer?
The following applications from Microsoft® Office collaborate with Seavus
Project Viewer: Microsoft® Excel, Microsoft® Outlook and Microsoft® PowerPoint.
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How can I send one task instead of an entire project plan?
Seavus Project Viewer allows users to send entire project plans or a
single task to other team members via Microsoft® Outlook. For this purpose,
select the task that you want to send, click on the right mouse button and
select the Send Task feature.
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What is Contextual printing?
Contextual printing (or Print with Seavus Project Viewer) is a feature that allows you to print a project
plan faster (directly from Windows explorer). You
select the .mpp file, right click on the mouse button and select the Print with Seavus Project
Viewer feature. This will lead directly to the
Print window in the application. You only need to click on the Print button to
have a printed version.
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When can I use the Mail Recipient (As Schedule Note) in the Send To sub-menu?
Not only when you send project plans to other
team members, but Seavus Project Viewer allows you to also send groups of
several tasks to be viewed together. This feature can send both project plans and group tasks as a picture; the file
format for these images is .jpg.
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There are notes in the project plan, but when I select the Print preview option they are missing. How
can I print them?
Open the Page Setup window in Seavus Project Viewer and under the View tab select Print notes feature.
After performing this action, all notes in the project plan will be printed on
separate page(s).
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Can I import a project created in Microsoft® Excel?
Seavus Project Viewer supports importing
project plans made in Microsoft® Excel. To import, in the Microsoft® Excel template (Excel Template.xls) enter all necessary information regarding a project plan
(duration, start and finish date, predecessors, resources, outline level of the
tasks, notes, information regarding the resources).
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What is the best use of a Relationship diagram?
The best use of a Relationship diagram
in Seavus Project Viewer is for its Split window
feature. In the top pane, you can select Gantt Chart, and in the bottom pane
place the network diagram. When you've selected a task from the project
plan in the top pane (Gantt Chart), you will then view the immediate predecessors
and successors of that task in the bottom pane (Relationship diagram).
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On which platforms does Seavus Project Viewer run?
Seavus Project Viewer is tested and certified to work on the following platforms: Microsoft® Windows 2000
Professional, Microsoft® Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft® Windows XP Home
Edition, Microsoft® Windows XP Professional Edition, and Microsoft® Windows
2003 Server. Besides the 32 bit operating systems from Microsoft, the 64 bit
versions are supported through a built-in Window on Windows64 (WOW64)
compatibility layer of the operating system.
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Does Seavus Project Viewer support .mpt files?
Yes, Seavus Project Viewer supports .mpt
files (e.g. global templates featuring views, filters, groups, or tables created specifically
for employee needs).
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Is it possible to view "shared resources" and if so, how?
Seavus Project Viewer supports
viewing projects by using resources from a shared resource pool. When such a
project is opened, the user can choose to load the resources from the shared
pool, instead of the local ones defined in the project (.mpp) file.
This enables Resource Managers to keep updated resource information in one
file, ensuring that all Seavus Project Viewer users can access
up-to-date information when viewing their projects.
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How can I use my own timescale while viewing large
project plans that have been sent to me? The
project creator of the plan sent it to me with only days
and weeks showing, and it is difficult for me to
view.
Seavus Project Viewer provides a powerful timescale formatting
feature, which fully matches its counterpart in Microsoft® Project. It
can be used to customize the view over a project's tasks and assignments, by
changing the number of tiers shown on a timescale, labels shown for a
time unit, and similar settings.
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Our project manager has a special template used
to create and display project plans. How can
I see this template in Seavus Project Viewer?
Seavus Project Viewer can be personalized through its ability to
associate a so-called global template file with an application, defining
default views, tables, filters, groups, and calendars
available for any project (.mpp) file, even when not saved to
a file. By changing the default global template shipped with our
product, organizations, and even end-users can tailor their copy of a product to their needs, ensuring one standard way of viewing all project plans is
to their own needs, ensuring that a standard is established for viewing all project plans
within the organization (allowing team members and project managers
to share common views over tasks and assignments). It is even possible to design
one standard of template for all Seavus Project Viewer applications, thus avoiding the need for
administrators to constantly distribute changes in templates to each
user separatelly.
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How can I buy Seavus Project Viewer?
All details for ordering Seavus Project Viewer are described in the
Order section on our Web site.
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Are there any discounts available for purchasing
multiple copies of Seavus Project Viewer?
Please contact your Reseller or
support@seavusprojectviewer.com.
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How many license types are supported by Seavus Project Viewer?
We have designed four licensing options for our customers:
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Standard
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Concurrent
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Company
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Enterprise
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Does Seavus Project Viewer support sorting, Find and Go To options?
Yes, Seavus Project Viewer supports
different task and resource sorting options and
provides Find and Go To options.
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Does Seavus Project Viewer support filtering options?
Yes, Seavus Project Viewer supports
all standard task filters, available by default in Microsoft® Project,
for viewing specific aspects of tasks and resource filters for viewing specific
aspects of resources. In addition, project managers can create new
filters and modify existing filters by customizing a filter's criteria in Microsoft® Project.
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Does Seavus Project Viewer support different font types?
Yes, Seavus Project Viewer supports
different font types, styles, sizes and colors.
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What print options are available?
With Seavus Project Viewer, you
can print all supported views including headers, footers and legends.
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Can I print project plans with Seavus Project Viewer?
Seavus Project Viewer has an
enhanced print functionality, including print preview and page set up,
compatible with Microsoft® Office and most other leading applications.
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Does Seavus Project Viewer support large .mpp files?
Yes, Seavus Project Viewer supports
.mpp files up to 10GB in size.
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How fast does Seavus Project Viewer open .mpp files?
Seavus Project Viewer is highly
optimized to open .mpp files of all sizes quickly. The speed has been
segmented into two categories: .mpp files up to 1MB- open in less than 3
seconds, and .mpp files from 1MB to 10MB- open in less than 20 seconds.
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Is an automatic update feature included with Seavus Project Viewer?
Yes, Seavus Project Viewer comes
with a configurable automatic update feature. When a user starts Live
Update, our secure Live Update Server is contacted and checks for
available updates. The user selects the package(s) to be installed on their
computer, and Live Update performs the upgrade.
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Which versions of Microsoft® Project files (.mpp) are supported by
Seavus Project Viewer?
Seavus Project Viewer supports: Microsoft® Project 98, Microsoft® Project 2000, Microsoft® Project
2002, Microsoft® Project 2003 and Microsoft® Project 2007 .mpp file versions.
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Which views are supported by Seavus Project Viewer?
Seavus Project Viewer can interpret Bar Rollup, Detail Gantt, Gantt Chart, Leveling Gantt, Milestone Date Rollup, Milestone Rollup, Multiple baselines Gantt, Tracking Gantt, Network Diagram, Descriptive Network Diagram, Task Sheet, Task Usage, Relationship diagram, Resource Graph, Resource Sheet, and Resource Usage. See screenshots.
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Do I need to have Microsoft® Project installed on my computer?
No. Seavus Project Viewer is a
stand-alone viewer designed to read Microsoft® Project files, and
Microsoft® Project is not required.
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