Release Notes Abraxio - July 2026
Introduction
This release lays the foundations for an in-depth overhaul of project management and strengthens the readability of steering across the entire platform. The guiding principle: make every deliverable genuinely manageable, give an at-a-glance view of workload and capacity, and clarify the information displayed on screen.
Five major features make up this release, along with various minor improvements:
- Introduction of work items into the schedule and their link with tasks,
- New charts for workload plans and capacity planning,
- Centralization of alerts and indicators in the toolbar,
- Deeper link between contracts and budget lines (Phase 2),
- Rolling lock of timesheets and enriched PDF exports.
🗓️ 1. Project Gantt overhaul — Work items & link with tasks (schedule)
Until now, the project schedule in Abraxio relied on a Gantt structure made up of lots, phases and milestones. This organization structures the work but does not clearly distinguish organizational elements from operational deliverables, and offers no link between the Gantt, tasks and budget.
This new version lays the foundations for an in-depth project management overhaul, with the introduction of a new concept: work items. These are operational deliverables, distinct from organizational groups, and integrated across the entire schedule, tasks, reports and exports.
In concrete terms, each project team can now structure its schedule with a clear hierarchy between organizational elements (groups) and operational deliverables (work items), manage these deliverables from a dedicated view (progress, dates, owner, associated tasks), and link tasks to work items.
This update is Phase 1 of a two-step overhaul: a Phase 2 will then establish the direct link between the Gantt and the budget, via allocations.
A project schedule now relies on three distinct object types.
- Groups are hierarchical organizational elements (Lots, Phases…) with no direct operational scope.
- Work items are the operational deliverables on which progress, dates, owner and tasks are managed.
- Milestones are control points qualified by a configurable type (major or not).
In administration (Admin > Configuration > Portfolios > Schedule), two new sections allow you to configure the object types for work items and groups (e.g. Deliverable, Lot, Feature).
The details of work items, groups and milestones open in a side panel that replaces the pop-ins. It includes two common tabs: Summary and Dependencies, as well as three additional tabs for work items: Tasks (create/view associated tasks and access the filtered Kanban), Files (up to 10 documents per item) and Comments (discussions directly on the deliverable).
Each milestone is now qualified by a configurable type (e.g. Go-live, Review, Delivery…).
The "Major milestone" concept determines its visibility:
- In flash reports, only major milestones appear, sorted by descending date
- In Project Review (Schedule view), the "Go-live" filter is replaced by "Major milestones"
- In a project's Management tab, the "Next go-live" KPI becomes "Next major milestone"
Major milestones are visually distinguished by an exclamation mark in their diamond.
The project Management tab evolves on three points:
- A new "Work items" block at the top of the right-hand column (number of completed/total items, any delays, access to the list or to creation)
- Accordion-style blocks (Tasks, Decisions, Notes, Documents collapsed by default with KPIs visible)
- An updated Schedule block, adapted to the new object types, with the shift from "Next go-live" to "Next major milestone" and the use of group colors.
The Compare option already available at budget level now arrives on a project's Work items page.
By selecting a published flash report, it displays additional columns (in purple) reflecting the flash report and calculating schedule variances in business days, with color coding (red if late, green if ahead).
On the API side, two new routes are available:
GET /v1/datasets/projects/{projectId}/planning(full schedule: groups, work items, milestones)GET /v1/datasets/projects/workItems/dimensions(configuration of work item analytical dimensions).
Two existing routes are enriched:
GET /v1/datasets/projects(milestones object completed with the milestone type label)GET /v1/datasets/projects/{id}/tasks(workItem node added if the task is linked to a work item).
On the Excel exports side:
- At the project export level, the "Schedule" tab is enriched (WBS columns, type, owner, task progress, analytical dimensions).
- The "Go-live milestones" tab is renamed "Milestones" and covers all milestones with their type and the "Major milestone" concept.
- The task export now includes a "Work item" column.
- The objects making up your schedules are carried over automatically to the new model.
- Lots and Phases become group types.
- Activities become work items.
- Your current labels are kept.
- WBS numbering is recalculated automatically across all objects.
- On the milestone side, two types are created at migration, "Go-live" and "Other".
Your existing milestones are distributed according to the value of their former field:
- Go-live milestones become milestones of type "Go-live" (major milestone)
- The others switch to "Other".
Finally, a "Standard template" Gantt is created automatically in each environment (with Design / Build / Deployment phases and a Go-live milestone). It replaces the previous "Abraxio Standard" template when initializing an empty schedule, and is now editable and deletable as you see fit.
📊 2. New charts for workload plans and capacity planning
Charts per screen:
- Capacity Planning: "Demand / Month / Profile" with a capacity curve and the option to filter by profile.
- Portfolios Workload Plan: "Budget / Month / Projects & Activities" broken down into allocated / remaining to allocate / budget overrun.
- Teams Workload Plan: "Allocations / Month" which adapts to the first grouping chosen, with a capacity curve.
Legends & alerts:
- An icon flags groups/projects/profiles in overrun or over-allocation.
- A new button lets you filter the items carrying the alert icon above.
- Alerts are recalculated when the context changes.
Table rendering:
- Density of your choice from the Show menu, improving readability when tables are fairly dense.
- A new histogram within the tables.
- Configurable thresholds. Set from: Configuration > Transverse > Allocation thresholds, as well as from the workload plan and capacity planning screens.
🔔 3. Centralization of alerts and indicators in the toolbar
The toolbar displayed many indicators with no clear hierarchy. This evolution reorganizes warnings and indicators into two distinct zones, everywhere the toolbar presented this kind of information (portfolios, finance, vendors, teams).
- Alert center: groups together situations that require attention (overruns, delays, over-allocations, overdue deadlines…), with a counter and grid filtering on click.
- Info / KPI center: groups together the contextual data available for consultation (dates, budget, progress, availability…).
- Display settings in direct access: the mode options (DxH / % / FTE) and add-ons (Consumed, Available…) move up into the toolbar — the "Show" button disappears from the screens concerned.
🔗 4. Contracts ↔ Budget lines link — Phase 2
Since last version, budget lines can be associated with vendor contracts. This Phase 2 makes the contract ↔ budget link more structured, more visible and easier to manage.
- Contract internal reference: automatic numbering with a customizable prefix (default "CT"), or manual entry; available in lists, exports, imports and API. Configuration is done from Administration > Vendors > Contract reference, and it serves as the priority matching key on import ("internalRef" added to the
GET /datasets/suppliers/contractsAPI). - Billing frequency: a new standard contract analytical dimension (monthly, quarterly, annual…), without consuming a dimension quota.
- Schedule warning: amounts shown in orange as soon as a budget is positioned beyond the termination date of the associated contract.
- Quick access to the contract and the vendor from a budget line's editing panel.
- Mandatory end date on a terminated contract.
🔒 5. Rolling lock of timesheets & enriched PDF exports
Locking timesheets required the administrator to perform a manual update every month. This version introduces an automatic rolling-month lock, and enriches PDF exports to facilitate audits and digitization.
- Timesheet Configuration reorganized into clear categories (Admin > Configuration > Teams).
- Rolling lock: a number of months (0 to 12) to keep open, applied automatically.
- "Timesheets locked through XX" KPI in the Time tracking toolbar, filtering in one click.
- Automatic signature in PDF exports (name of the employee/manager and publication/validation dates).
- Automatic remarks pulled from the Comments.
- PDF export in detailed mode at budget line level, in addition to the current mode aggregated by project/activity.
Locked timesheets are blocked regardless of their status. Only administrators can modify them, and a banner indicates this.
🌟 6. Other improvements
- Aligning the budget with actuals: a new option to distribute the variance, either "unallocated (balance on the line)" or "reallocated by the employee concerned".
- Special cases (departure, status change, negative allocation…) are handled automatically.
- Budget extension: on extension, activity allocation lines with no default daily rate will be valued using the effective daily rate of the current fiscal year.
- Excel export of the budget and simulations: "Type" column (Build / Run / Transverse) added in the "Sub-budget rights" tab.
- Timesheets: display refocused on recent months (period selector, dedicated M-2 / M-1 / M rows, late-entry KPI specifying the month).
- New Portfolio and Project / Activity Reference columns from data entry onwards.
- Undo: cancellation by action (and no longer cell by cell) with a counter of changes in progress.
Two new API routes to retrieve a project's members and its detailed tasks:
GET /v1/datasets/projects/{projectId}/members: consolidated members of a project/activity with their role.GET /v1/datasets/projects/{projectId}/tasks(+…/tasks/dimensions): detailed tasks of a project/activity.
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