D_Ram, Thank you for the feedback. RationalPlan Single works with separate files for projects. One file per project... The Multi version will keep a list of projects that share common resources in the same file hence certain common details are kept. And the Server version has a database and not files...

Regarding scheduling I suppose you are making mouse actions on the Gantt chart...you actually do not change the end date but the duration. And you can not change the start date from the start bar because from there you adjust the % completion.

"Bill to" is not populated because in Single you can not add clients for your projects. But you do have a point. This way the invoice report gets useless. We need to fix that. Thanks!

Drop us an email to support@rationalplan.com with more feedback and you might get a free license on your name :)

HW, It's in the archive the program came in.

HW, it is ALWAYS a good idea to formally Extract All the zip giveaway bundle to a seperate folder rather than just open the zip since opening a zip in windows explorer is a virtual action and files are not extracted from the zip until you manaully open them. And even then there is no assurance the individual files will even end up in the same temporary folder!

HW, There is no such thing as a 1 month trial in our product. If you do not provide the license it is just limited to 20 tasks. The license is in the .zip. See https://www.rationalplan.com/tutorial/ch01s02.html for registration steps.

Sig Lane, it is ALWAYS a good idea to formally "Extract All" the zip giveaway bundle to a seperate folder rather than just open the zip since opening a zip in windows explorer is a virtual action and files are not extracted from the zip until you manaully open them. And even then there is no assurance the individual files will even end up in the same temporary folder!

Sig Lane, See https://www.rationalplan.com/tutorial/ch01s02.html

JohnL, You do not need to have Java installed. The application comes embedded with Java. There are no vulnerabilities and you do not have to worry about paying anything to Oracle not even for commercial purposes. However this giveaway can be used only for personal stuff as it is a giveaway.

We regularly update the embedded Java when we release new versions. We do not recommend to make changes to the installation as it might stop working properly.

RationalPlan, Thank you, that was most helpful and appreciated.

RationalPlan, your installation contains JRE for 64bit OS thus If the user has a 32bit OS they MUST have Java installed and disable your Java installation folder or it will not function.

RationalPlan, if you have a 32bit edition of windows you DO need to have Java installed since for some inexplicable reason you bundled only the 64bit JRE with this... Do you have a reason to do so since I know of absolutely no perrformance or security reason to use an old 64bit JRE over a universally usable 32bit JRE, are there any reasons to? They both run the identical JAR files...
TK

TK, On a 32 bit system you can access maximum 4GB of RAM. Plus we thought there are no longer 32 bits users... :( For example on Mac 32 bits applications are no longer accepted...

RationalPlan, at no point is your program ever going to need to access greater than a few hundred megabytes let alone 2 or 3 Gbyte of user memory allocation. Yours is not a studio quality uncompressed video frame level editor, it's a small data base and front end single user project planner. At no point is it ever likely to exceed the abilities of the 32bit java vm which is fully usable on both 64bit and 32bit editions of windows.
Fact, on a 32bit server eidtion of windows and 32bit desktop with a simple ntkrnlpa.exe patch can access upto 64GBytes of RAM, I personally have 8GBytes of RAM in my 32bit Windows Vista SP2+ system.
Java in either 32bit or 64bit form is never used in aplications requiring greater than 2GB of processing user memory allocation simply because java is just too slow at handling large data-sets. If a project requires large data-sets in excess of 2GB without disk swapping then native 64bit programming languages would be sensible NOT a 64bit JRE! Your program runs correctly and without any known restriction under Oracles 32bit Java VM under both this 32bit Vista and under 64bit windows 10 as I've written in previous comments. Switching to 64bit JRE under windows gains you nothing and shuts out yor 32bit windows users with no good reason unless they have moderate hacking abilities to replace your incorrectly installed 64bit JRE on their 32bit editions of windows.

RationalPlan, in addition even windows 10 is still sold in 32bit versions if your hardware needs it... like certain Intel CPU's only address 2GBytes of RAM and windows 32bit is far more efficient in a 2GByte RAM environment especially with Windows 10 memory compression.

RationalPlan, There is and will be for years to come 32bit users. There are too many licensed programs that users, individual and business, that are 32bit and have paid a lot of money for multi year and/or lifetime use. I have several of those on this PC alone and have been using this same Win 7 PC since 2008 and it has always worked very well (with regular maintenance) so I will continue to use it until it has a catastrophic failure :).

D_Ram, TK, we will probably revert to 32bit version of Java on Windows for the next release... Thank you for your feedback!

D_Ram, Is it possible you have a 32-bit system, as it includes a 64-bit Java runtime, only...

D_Ram, please see my comment at https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/rationalplan-single-5-6/#comment-669546

It explains the problem you have observed and offers a work around.

TK, EXCELLENT! I did not see this response until this morning but fortunately once I did get it running the license file still worked.

dpullum, The installation and registration is explained in the readme.txt file.

senzai6293, Maybe you need to renovate your apartment or your house. Or build a garage for your car... It will help you plan your work and compute costs.

senzai6293, if you mean by that that they don't use it because of the vulnerabilities in huge numbers then i would agree.

So let's hope this program today doesn't add new ones. x)

RationalPlan, thanks for answering but i'm not really a big planner when it comes to your usage suggestions.

I'm more the impulsive guy who simply starts things without thinking too much about them. I go as they come.

Blurp, I would hypothesise that Java is not often used for commercial software simply because it is relatively easily decompiled and reverse engineered for both unauthorised good and bad purposes and then recompiled for unauthorised use. No java based licensing is really very enforcable. At best a large portion of the functionality as well as the licensing code would have to be brought out to not easily reversible DLL's so the java contains ancillary relatively unimportant GUI and general file I/O.
I personally have done more than my fair share of JRE/JDK authorised by statute or license reversing and recoding for personal enternainment in the past.

RationalPlan, Is it just for physical personal projects like home renovations or can I use it to help with the process of commercializing a digital product or popularizing a website? How much flexibility does your software give me?

RationalPlan, May I suggest you create a project to plan a giveaway properly? No I am being serious! The jreWindows folder contains a 64bit JRE for NT version 5.2 and above! Excerpt from JRE "release" file:

JAVA_VERSION="1.8.0_201"
OS_NAME="Windows"
OS_VERSION="5.2"
OS_ARCH="amd64"

The problem is made worse is previous users of older versions on 32bit builds of windows are unhelpfully told to let the installer uninstall their WORKING previous version in order to install a new but 64bit version that CANNOT POSSIBLY WORK on their 32bit editions of windows!!! Because this program is using the Nulsoft NSIS installer system it is possible to try out the version to see if it can run on our systems by usinf 7-Zip to extract the setup.exe into an isolated subfolder and started manually OR at least attempt to start it manually by trying to start the file, in my case, Y:\Downloads\RationalPlanSingle562-pa02hd\Setup\RationalPlanSingle.exe Which is a 32bit executable but the JRE it is bound to is a 64bit set of executables cannot possibly run under 32bit windows. But can run across the shared drive mapped to a drive on my Windows 10 64bit system.

I have noticed a workaround... IF one is on a 32bit edition of windows, ANY version from windows XP and up but with a system wide installed Oracle Java Runtime Environment installed one can recover a working program from the above mentioned failing scenario by renaming or deleting the 64bit jreWindows folder so the RationalPlanSingle.exe cannot see the locally installed wrong JRE it will loook for and find the systems JRE and if it's a compatible version it will launch the giveaway and accept the giveway license and mitigate the installer build error.

I currently have this giveaway running under my systems java runtime with "release" file data:

JAVA_VERSION="1.8.0_281"
OS_NAME="Windows"
OS_VERSION="5.1"
OS_ARCH="i586"

Which should be installable under XP SP3 but is currently under 32bit Vista SP2+
TK

Jake, You can use RationalPlan for anything that requires some planning, management or organisation and for any domain. However since this is a giveaway you can use it just for personal purposes. For commercial usage you should buy a license.

RationalPlan, Thanks for your reply and the information therein.

RationalPlan, i'm curious. How do you know if i use it for commercial purpose or not?

TK, As I stated in my previous comment this did work, however, I did have to add myself full control permissions to remove the "Read Only" attribute from the folder and all contents before it would let me rename/remove the folder.

tom, If you go to About... menu you will see it says it is a giveaway license