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TLF Blocking - Pull and Ship Enhancement

Problem Context When I have blocking accumulated by TLF in my material list, I am unable to make edits to which pieces are being sent for blocking use. There are times when I would rather send an offcut created by the batch instead of pulling piec...
over 1 year ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Cut List Edit - Workspace sort

Problem Context When pieces are moved to workspace, there is no ability to organize them by length, to ensure that I am getting all the same length pieces moved back out into the cut area. Idea Provide tools to sort the pieces by length and group/...
over 1 year ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Batching Recommendation

Problem Context I have a lot of material lists that I need to get through operations today, but I am not sure if I am organizing my batches in the best way possible. Idea Have the system look at what I need to have cut today and provide a recommen...
over 1 year ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

System "Notification" Banner

Problem Context The current system banner does not distinguish between informational messages and alerts that users need to be aware of when an outage or performance impact has been detected. This leads to confusion, both from the system admin and...
almost 2 years ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Activity Log

Problem Context: The activity log lacks sufficient information to provide a comprehensive understanding of project events. There are several important actions that are not currently logged, and there is no capability to search for specific records...
almost 2 years ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Notifications

Problem Context: The current notification system is cumbersome to use and the information provided is lacking in clarity for identifying action items. The settings do not allow the user clear control over what/when they get notifications or what t...
almost 2 years ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Wasted Space on UI

Problem Context: The Top Nav and page metadata areas occupy a significant amount of space, pushing down the important content on the page. As a result, users have to scroll a lot and struggle to view the critical project data that needs to be revi...
almost 2 years ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Save button closes editing window on Dashboard

As a user I would like to be able to exit the editable fields area once I hit the Save button and the saving process is complete. Currently I have to wait until the save function cycles, then hit the Cancel button to resume regular dashboard viewing.
over 7 years ago in BC Connect / Project Dashboard 0 Tracked

Add Dealer selections in filters/selectors and create new project from create material list tab

Attached are two screen shots. On the picture labeled search, it would be beneficial for the column labeled as builder to be replaced with dealer. When we used our customer names in the builder tab this wasn’t an issue, but now it can make finding...
over 3 years ago in BC Connect / Material Lists / Search 1 Tracked

Being able to copy a sub-folder, rename it and all the documents in the folder would copy as well into the newly named folder.

Say you have a folder named Level 2 - within the folder there are 20 manual material list. The projects Level 3 happens to be a identical to level 2. Instead of having to make all new material list or copy them individually the entire folder could...
over 7 years ago in BC Connect / Material Lists / Other 1 Tracked

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