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Inherit by default to custom property in items not pulling through

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I have a custom property in takeoff which I need by default to be inherited to the labor items which according to the settings should be happening but it doesn't seem to be. Not sure if this is a bug.

Hey Andrew, is this happening for new items or for existing items? We purposely made it so that if you change the default mode/default value of a custom property, then it does not modify any existing items, because it could screw up your existing projects if things start inheriting when they weren't, etc.


I did a test on my end, and the default mode is applying for new items/takeoffs.


As a side note, I believe the team plans to add tools in the future to help batch update existing items/takeoffs when adding or changing custom properties.

Hi Lorin,


Thanks for the reply.


Your point 'We purposely made it so that if you change the default mode/default value of a custom property, then it does not modify any existing items, because it could screw up your existing projects if things start inheriting when they weren't, etc.' is a good one and I totally agree with this as it makes complete sense.


The issue I have is that in the custom properties settings, I have my items to be set to inherit by default. However, when I go to templates to create my new takeoff templates and add in items, the items are not by default set to inherit which means i have to manually amend the setting in item to inherit.


I have done a screen recording I could email across if it helps?

Yeah, that would be great! Please send it to support@zztakeoff.com, and the development team will check it out.

Thank you very much for the video 🙂


Looks like the bug is when you add an item from the takeoff properties pop-up (works fine if you use the plus icon in the upper right of takeoffs/templates tab or right click add item).


We'll get this solved as soon as possible.

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Awesome! Thank you

Hey Andrew, I believe this is fixed with our recent updates. Is this working properly for you now?

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Hi Lorin,


This is now working correctly, thank you.

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