A few road blocks, if you looking for a serious tool.

A few road blocks that occurred on my road map:
1. Zoom tool (top, center) is not totally useless, but neither is it useful. There have been many intelligent ways to focus a specific time range in a multitude of applications. This is not one of them.
2. Speaking of time periods, there doesn’t seem to be a way to set or reset, if necessary, a start date. In removing finished events at the start of the roadmap, I was left with a blank space at the start of the road map. Which forced me to try and reset the time period using the painful zoom tool.
3. Place concurrent events in a swim lane, it expands to make room for them. Remove one of the concurrent events, it dutifully remains expanded (possibly in case you might want to put the event back). Could not find a way to resize the swim lanes to create more effective vertical spacing.
4. There are no linked, concurrent events, partial, or otherwise. If you link one event to another, the following event will automatically move to the end of the starting event. I tried dragging, changing the dates, etc., but it appears that you will need to plan everything strictly sequential.
5. Could not find a way to print out notes, making them superfluous,unless you prefer to go from event to event to try to understand the overall plan. This makes sharing a plan with others a matter of sharing your computer with others, so they can go from event to event to try to understand.
6. It is unnecessary to look for Help in the Help menu. No help has been provided.
7. I’ve dutifully reported my findings to the Support team. Again, no help has been provided.

Normally, I wouldn’t write a review, I’d simply write off my loss. However, I have paid a somewhat significant amount of money, considering the lack of maturity this application demonstrates. I’ve listed my pain points to allow you to decide for yourself. Your planning may be strictly sequential. The zoom tool is the only way to set a time range, but you may not need accuracy. Or notes. Or help. Good luck.

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