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Your October Avicado Toast Has Arrived With a new month of e-Builder® tips and news, lovingly prepared by your friends at Avicado. Our consultants and system administrators know e-Builder® inside and out, and we’re here to help. Think of it as the quick, hearty snack that provides just the e-Builder® boost you need each month.
e-Builder® Q3 Enhancement Analysis
We Love Continuous Improvement – Here’s Our Fav’s:
Manual Retainage
No more pesky rounding errors, keep your accounting records consistent with e-Builder® commitments for seamless integration.
Example: Sometimes, contractors are required to calculate retainage outside of e-Builder® based on their Schedule of Values. Upon entering these amounts into e-Builder®, the system will also calculate retainage based on percentages. This may lead to rounding differences based on the number of lines. Now, the retainage amount can be set manually eliminating any potential variances
Editable Submittals
‘Accident forgiveness’ allows the Submittal Coordinator to tweak document information such as titles, eliminating significant rework.
Example: When a project requires a specific naming convention i.e. matching the description to the title, the Submittal Coordinator is able to make those tweaks without having to reject the submittal and redo the entire approval process.
Below is a sample of the submittal in edit mode:
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Q&A Get Your Questions Answered With Our Toast Expert – LOS!
If a user overrides to a mail merge step, is it possible to capture that person’s name in the mail merge?
If a user overrides a mail merge that gets uploaded to a folder, their name will be the ‘Uploaded By’ user.
I have a process in e-Builder® with a mail merge step right before finishing. Can I do an import to the mail merge step to regenerate the mail merges? There are 400+ instances that are currently finished so I’d like to avoid having to do it manually.
Yes, however, the mail merge will create a new version of the document unless all previous versions are deleted before re-running the mail merge.
Is it possible to limit what templates are available when using the “print” function on a process? Can you only make certain templates available at specific steps? Or limit what roles can use which templates?
You can only disable all mail merges on a step. There are no role permissions or template permissions.
Leftover Bites
User Filter: e-Builder® has restored the ability to click enter when filtering for users in the manage users screen instead of having to click the ‘Filter’ button to execute.
New Managed Calendar Button Exceptions: this allows you to add holidays or days that the team won’t be working in the schedule module. Name it with the start and finish date and you don’t get docked for those days with approved time off.
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