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Andrew Hopp
10d 9h

Allow for Custom Properties With Batch Import Tools and Right Click Properties on Takeoff Folders

Current state for Batch Import Takeoffs you start off with "Type" and "Name". I tinkered around and noticed that if you add a custom property under the user settings it would actually show up under the Batch Import Takeoffs screen. You can paste in all your data and add the items into your takeoffs.... but it doesn't appear to actually import that extra data to the custom property (in this case "Option Number).




Which results in something like this below with the folders and names. However, there is no context menu to allow you to go in to the folder properties to even see the custom property or adjust it in any way. There also doesn't seem to be any other spot where you would even see that custom property data other than reports. So, I did a spot check and noticed on the reports that the custom property field shows up but didn't actually save the original data I had imported through the batch import process.


*Add properties context menu for deep dive customization tied to custom properties


I had a sample area takeoff housed in the Base Takeoff folder and the Option Number property did not actually populate anything on the report.


Would be very helpful to be able to batch import custom properties and have the additional right click context menus to be able to dig deeper into things like folders.


I was showed a semi-workaround to the process by just entering in the data for that custom property on the takeoff item itself, which does actually work. However, the huge downside to that is that you would need to micromanage many takeoffs/items to manually change that custom property across all of them and make sure you keep track of each one. What would make most sense is that anything within that parent Folder would inherit that custom property (similar to Planswift hierarchy and inheritance). Copy and pasting things into different folders would then inherit that new custom property value on the fly w/o the need to manually adjust it every time which could lead to some inaccuracies on the reports if you forget to manually change things.


Thanks!

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Jes 10d 8h

Yeah this would be nice, I mentioned a similar idea yesterday about having "assembly folders" where any takeoff objects inserted inside of them automatically has assembly items/properties applied to them.


Also on the batch insert takeoff module, adding columns to the module so that we can insert length/width/depth/diameter when we want to import large amounts of count takeoff dimensions from Excel would be very helpful

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