As 2025 comes to a close, we are highlighting the Touchplan updates that helped teams plan and schedule more intuitively, collaborate more effectively, and make better data-driven decisions. Below is a recap of this year’s most impactful enhancements and how they are improving planning and execution across construction projects.
Visibility and Analytics Improvements
Role Insights for Performance Clarity
A new Role Insights dashboard was added to Project Analytics, giving teams deeper visibility into expected and actual performance for each role. By surfacing labor patterns, bottlenecks, and workload distribution, this enhancement helps teams make more informed staffing and planning decisions.
Planning and Scheduling Enhancements
More Flexible Planning Horizons
Admins now have the ability to move and reset the Next Period in the Plan View using a simple drag action. This added flexibility gives teams more control over how they structure and manage planning within Touchplan.
Clearer Long-Range Timelines
Updates to the project timeline introduced improved navigation, clearer year-to-year transitions, project weeks, and optional custom week numbers. These improvements support long-range planning and help teams stay aligned throughout extended project phases.
Smoother Plan Navigation
Touchplan now features dynamic ticket descriptions that move with the user’s view. This ensures that critical information remains visible during plan navigation and supports more efficient and focused review sessions.
Improved Plan Printing
Enhancements to the Print Plan tools added customizable page sizes, DPI settings, orientation options, and flexible legend placement. These changes make it easier to produce clear, tailored printouts for coordination meetings, walk-throughs, or stakeholder updates.
Data Quality, Organization, and Control
Required Fields for More Reliable Data
Admins can now designate specific ticket fields as required. This ensures consistent data entry, improves the accuracy of reporting, and strengthens teams’ ability to rely on plan information.
More Accurate Analytics Through Plan Archiving
The new plan archiving capability allows Admins to remove outdated plans from the active view. This improves project organization and ensures analytics dashboards reflect only current and relevant work.
More Flexible Report Date Ranges
A reporting enhancement gives users more control over how they pull project data. Users can now select a start date and then choose a timeframe (such as weeks or months) and duration to automatically generate reports, like a 4-week lookahead Gantt Chart, without needing to manually enter exact end dates. Along with saving time, this update improves reporting consistency and strengthens data reliability across teams.
Scheduling Integration Enhancements
MS Project .xlsx Support for Smoother Scheduling Alignment
Touchplan added support for importing, exporting, and updating plans using the MS Project .xlsx format. This simplifies synchronization between CPM schedules and Touchplan’s collaborative planning and reduces the need for manual formatting.
Training and User Experience Improvements
A Better Learning Experience Through Touchplan Academy
Touchplan Academy received a comprehensive update with improved navigation, clearer structure, and refreshed content. This update supports faster onboarding and easier access to training resources.
Looking Ahead to 2026
The progress made in 2025 underscores our commitment to delivering solutions that improve planning reliability, strengthen coordination, and provide the visibility needed to manage complex projects with confidence. From enhanced timelines to smarter analytics and better-connected workflows, this year’s updates support how construction teams work today and prepare them for what comes next.
If your team has suggestions for how Touchplan can better support your planning process, please reach out to the Touchplan support team. Continuous improvement is at the heart of our work, and your feedback helps shape every update we deliver.
Here’s to another year of building smarter together!
