Trace Exactly What's Driving Your Milestone
On a complex, phased project where a missed milestone means liquidated damages, the question "what's actually driving this date?" needs a direct answer. Inspect Path has always shown the full network of connected elements, but that view includes a lot of activities that aren't actually on the driving path. Two new toggles in the Inspect Path ribbon change that: one filters to only the elements driving the selected activity or milestone, the other controls whether you see predecessors, successors, or both. The result is a focused, clean view of the exact chain that matters, available in both the Gantt and the Canvas.
Focus on What's Driving Your Milestone, Not the WBSs Around It
Inspect Path in Gantt is built for tracing what matters on your schedule. But when WBS groups show up alongside the activities, milestones, and tasks you're actually trying to analyze, the view becomes harder to read. A new Show WBS toggle fixes this: turn it off and the WBSs drop away, leaving just the physical work items sorted by start date. Whether you're looking at the driving path or the full path of an element, you get a clean, sequential read of what's actually on that path.
Edit Your Schedule at the Speed You Think
Every right-click and menu navigation adds friction when you're moving through a dense schedule under a deadline. Keyboard shortcuts are now available throughout Planera, and the design makes sure you discover them in context rather than having to memorize them in advance. The shortcuts surface directly in tooltips and context menus as you work, so they become part of your natural workflow.
Know When You've Created the Wrong Relationship
You may think that dragging a connection from the left side of one activity to the left side of another creates a Start-to-Start. However, Planera creates a Finish-to-Start instead, with no indication that the result differed from what you may have intended. Now, a tooltip appears immediately when this happens, and clicking change opens the relationship type selector so you can fix it before moving on.
Find Your Default Calendar Without Digging
Calendar configuration is something teams touch regularly during project setup, and it was one of those settings that required navigating to the wrong place first. The Default Calendar used to live inside Project Details, which wasn't where most people looked. It now has its own dedicated tab in Project Settings, visible in the sidebar alongside your other configuration options the moment you open it.
