• Votes

    17

    Bid Grid Notes Column (Ferguson Construction - Ohio)

    When in the "Bid Grid" window we would like for there to be a "Notes" column after the "Amount" column. Currently you have to right-click on the sub's name to add a note. ...
  • Votes

    3

    Milestones

    . Milestones in an estimate would be extremely beneficial as it would eliminate the need for creating/copying multiple estimate files and allow intra-estimate ...
  • Votes

    2

    Abbreviate Item Descriptions

    They used to have a feature in DOS that would automatically abbreviate the Item Descriptions as you reduced the column width, by deleting vowels starting near the end of ...
  • Votes

    2

    Make JC Phase column available to estimating when the accounting side ...

    Currently the accounting system resides on a separate server for security reasons. We have gone through the JC Phase's to make them shorter then the estimating phases as ...
  • Votes

    1

    Be able to create a new Available Elements to sort by

    Currently only able to use the given "Available Elements" to be able to sort your estimate. Would like to be able to create more Available Elements to be able to sort and ...
  • Votes

    9

    Scheduling Integration

    Integration into Primavera or Microsoft Project was a necessary component of the Pervasive Version that cut down hours of manual entry that SQL will now require.
  • Planned

    5

    Locking Location Values

    In Pervasive, I was able to select or set a location in the Default takeoff values and select ok. That location would be locked for all future item or assembly takeoffs ...
  • Votes

    3

    Enlarge the text in the takeoff window

    Would like to see the ability to enlarge the text in the takeoff window. You can currently zoom in on the spreadsheet view. The text in the takeoff window is so small ...
  • Votes

    4

    Report Writing

    Built-in report writing is very limited with the options Sage offers. At the very least we'd like to see the ability to export directly to Microsoft Word. Would also ...
  • Votes

    4

    Conditional formatting

    I would love to have the ability to allow for different row formatting, based on WBS values. This would allow us to highlight new items, or items to be discussed, or any ...
  • Votes

    4

    "Below the line" items on totals page

    Sometimes we will have items that need to be included as lump sums on the totals page - preconstruction fee and previously bought bid packages are two examples - that we ...
  • Votes

    8

    We would like the ability to change the phase suffixes on existing ...

    To merge existing databases, we would like to change the phase suffixes on one of the databases to produce 1 clean database with all the items we use.
  • Votes

    2

    Database Documentation File

    I would like to have a location where the Database structure can be documented. To me, this should be part of the database and travel with it in backups/restore, etc. ...
  • Votes

    9

    Allow for automatic backup of Options files to the server for proper ...

    In the Pervasive version of Estimating we were able to keep our personal Options files stored on the server so that we could access them from where ever on the network ...
  • Votes

    12

    A qualifications / assumptions module would be nice.

    I use the notes column for any Q/A for the specific item or assembly. But every job has general qualifications and assumptions that needs to be documents prior to ...
  • Votes

    4

    Concurrent User Licensing

    Like any other major estimating system on the market today all use concurrent user licensing. It is much more productive to all be working in the same estimate. The merge ...
  • Votes

    4

    Audit Trail Management System

    I would really like to see a better audit trail that could be restored at any given time. Something that is live with in the application rather than a print out report.
  • Votes

    1

    Ability to edit Estimate Database - Database Name

    It would be nice to have the ability to edit Estimate Database - Database Name. Version 17 allowed us to migrate but we had a copy of our estimating database you know in ...
  • Planned

    1

    Update communicator

    It is reasonable to assume that our estimating products and Sage servers communicate. Based on what versions are installed some sort of notice about updates or upgrades ...
  • Votes

    3

    Control of licenses

    We have licenses on different servers. (and some checked out licenses from time to time) Would be nice to have a web portal to control which servers have licenses. This ...