Whole Word Units Option in Reports for Measurements

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I have a question about spelling out the unit of measurement in reports versus having abbreviations. I am clear on how to do it when I have a product in an assembly,,,I manually change it to read "Linear Feet", etc. But, when we just have measurements with no product attached there is not an option. I do see in the column settings in reports that I can select the column header (Units 1)to read differently when exported, but is there a way to have the actual units read differently in reports or at least when exported?

I was advised to make this a feature request.

Thanks for your help,

Mike

Lorin Allred zzTakeoff44d 6h

Hey Mike, currently, the way abbreviated units display in the reports can't be changed. The only exception to this is if you have a takeoff in item mode (as you mentioned), where you use the product units and qty for measurement 1-3.

The main reason why you have to choose the abbreviated units & you can't type the units is that when you choose the units, you are choosing the convert to units - 'area:sf', "area:sy", etc. Perhaps we could have some sort of 'alt' units that display instead of the convert to units. I'll send this over to the dev team for further discussion. 🙂

Michael Lanter 44d 6h

Thanks Lorin. I appreciate you looking into this for us...though nothing in coding is "simple", it be be as simple as more options that read 'area:Square Feet', etc in addition to what we already have.

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