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Increase Container Blocking Bay option to 4 Bays, or by Overall Length

Often a project is requiring edge blocking 4 bays deep, or to meet a minimum length such as 48". An additional 4th bay option would cover all scenarios we encounter.
about 3 years ago in BC Estimator 0

Ability to Separate/Divide Group Labels

Often times a group label for joist or hangers crosses over individual unique piece that's not a part of the group. Separating the group label into 2 groups or more could help add clarity to the drawings.
about 3 years ago in BC Estimator 0

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

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

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

"RFO" Save Process

Problem Context: I have been working with BC Connect for quite a while. Every time I click to set a material list to "Ready for Optimization," I have to click through a prompt reminding me that I am going to lock the list. Since I am comfortable w...
over 1 year ago in BC Connect 0 Will Not Implement

Ability to group framing layouts into folders

Similar to grouping pages within the Digitizer, adding the function of grouping framing layouts into folders also (such as Bldg A, Bldg B, etc) and the relevant layouts within that folder.
almost 2 years ago in BC Estimator 1

Filter Dashboard by N/A

As a user I would like to be able to filter my Dashboard view by N/A values. For instance if I only want to view new projects that have not yet moved into a quote/design/etc status, I am unable to change the Status dropdown to display only those i...
about 7 years ago in BC Connect / Project Dashboard 1 Already Exists