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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...
about 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/...
about 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...
about 1 year ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Group Scaling of Framing Layouts

Adding the ability within the framing layouts tab to scale all layout pages in one group. Currently if you have 2 layouts or 17 layouts, you have to individually rescale pages if you want/need a different scale shown. Adding the option to scale al...
about 1 year ago in BC Estimator 0

Inventory Usage - History View

Problem Context: The current inventory usage report only allows me to see the past two months worth of data. This prevents me from tracking how much of a product or how many products i ran through processing. Idea: Add an additional tab to the rep...
about 1 year ago in BC Connect 0

Add a feature to allow for an alternate MFG's hangers

With the change to Mitek, we still have clients that will use Simpson, or want to have both Simpson and Mitek listed. Can we get a feature to list an alternate hanger, ie option 2 or Option 3? Basically a second or third column beside the primary ...
about 1 year ago in BC Framer 2 Will not implement

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...
over 1 year ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

Automatic Job Share Feature

It would be helpful to have an automatic job share feature instead of having to share each job individually. In our office, we currently share every job between each member of the design team so that we each have access to all files but having to ...
about 5 years ago in BC Calc 2 Planned

User Defined Landing Pages

Problem Context: Users are not able to select a specific page that they always want to start at when logging in. This leads to additional effort to navigate to that page before starting work. Idea: Provide the ability for users to directly access ...
over 1 year ago in BC Connect 0

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...
over 1 year ago in BC Connect 0 Tracked

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