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1. Building Systems Design Inc For the last couple of quarters we have been reviewing SpecLink E just E for short BSD s next generation SpecLink software After more than 10 years developing fielding and supporting the SpecLink system we have many reasons for develop ing anew platform from the ground up If you haven t read the LinkLine issues of the past two quarters you might want to visit linkLine_archives htm to read the Summer and Fall Next Generation articles for more info on this important BSD initiative These articles discuss the rationale behind this initiative and BSD s most important goals in embarking on this development effort They also discuss the new user interface new installation and updating technologies and E s connected and disconnected operation in a network environment d In this quarter s newsletter we want to discuss the ins and outs of developing interoperability between applications BSD is currently developing software referred to as LinkMan E or LME to support link ing SpecLink E to multiple CAD environ ments in a way that recommends or option ally actually enables specification sections and individual paragraphs for inclusion in the project specifications as the CAD model is developed In addition LME is intended to facilitate linking between BSD s CostLink AE AE cost estimating system the CAD environments and SpecLink E in such a way2. customers For instance we know that 11 655 SpecLink projects were active during the period 11 1 05 10 31 06 The most frequently used section is 07 9005 07900 Joint Sealers which is included in 46 of the project manuals generated with SpecLink This is followed by Section 09 2116 09260 Gypsum Board Assemblies used in 43 of projects and Section 09 9000 Painting and Coating 09900 Paints and Coatings used in 40 of projects We also gather more specific information about project specifications If we examine the data for Section 09 2116 Gypsum Board Assemblies for example we find that of the 5 013 projects that used the section over a one year period particular gypsum board manufactur ers were specified about half the time We also know exactly how many times each manufac turer was specified as follows Fi fe CosTLINK A E HELPS ROTH amp ASSOCIATES PRODUCE PROFESSIONAL LOOKING ESTIMATES Since 1915 the Roth name has been synonymous with providing superior design and construction services to residential commercial industrial and institutional clients John E Roth started his first business in 1915 designing and constructing concrete bridges in the Southeastern Michigan area What started as a specialized engineering practice has grown into a one stop shop for any phase of a building project The Roth Companies consists of four businesses each of which has stren
3. BSD SpecLink BSD CostLink and BSD SoftLink are registered trademarks and BSD CadLink and BSD LinkMan are all trademarks of Building Systems Design Inc Get the latest on BSD by visiting our web page at www bsdsoftlink com lt BSD SpecLink E Virtual Professional Building Project Project Tree Document Window Help Division 00 Procurement and Contracting im Division 01 General Requirements 4h Facility Construction Subgroup Divisions H E Division 02 Easting Conditions Division 03 Concrete f Division 04 Masonry Oh Division 05 Metals Structural Metal Framing Ea Metal Decking 2 Cold Formed Metal Framing Gi Metal Fabrications 5 Decorative Metal Division 06 Wood Plastics and Com Division 07 Thermal and Moisture Pri MasterFormat 2004 in SLE tion specification So how do we connect these disparate systems BSD is presently prototyping the LinkMan E product The general approach to the problem involves identifying CAD objects by tagging or linking them to CostLink AE assemblies which in turn are tagged or linked to SpecLink E products The LME prototype includes a navigation tree similar to that in Windows Explorer or BSD s SpecLink product and an accompanying grid or table that displays data related to the user s current positioning in the tree The tree actually supports two different hierar chies accessed by tabs in the tree panel that present either a MasterFor mat
4. wall stops protection plates push and pull bars and plates flush bolts and coordinators gaskets and weather stripping thresholds and a wide variety of miscellaneous items For electric strikes magnetic locks and other electrical controls choose Folger Adam HES or Securitron For complete opening coordination choose from hollow metal door brands CECO Curries and Fleming and flush wood doors from Graham ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions provides independent specifiers to help architects at no charge According to T J Gottwalt AHC CDC CSI CCPR MAI Director of Architectural Develop ment their team of professional consultants provides objective and accurate specifications written in accordance with industry standards and in compliance with all local and national building codes and regulations The specification consultants use their broad range of door and security hardware knowledge to address unique consider ations in specialized market segments such as education healthcare commer cial and government projects In addition their factory trained technical support staff can provide a wide array of other services that may be useful at many stages of the design and construc tion process including e Design Stage AIA CES educational classes product consultation field hardware surveys e Construction Documents Stage Code compliance review specification writing e Bid Stage Pre bid meetings e
5. 2004 hierarchy or a Uniformat hierarchy depending on the selected tab 7 My Start Page wow bsdsoftlinl h Building Systems De In the current prototype the MasterFor mat view includes folders for each specification section in the BSD Master Specifications database Each folder includes entries in the tree for each product that is referenced in that section The companion grid is designed with a column for each interoperable application initially specifications CAD and cost estimating It will have additional columns to display CAD quantity cost estimate quantity related keynote and potentially other information About BSD When the cursor is placed on a given product the companion grid displays the product on the first row and associated product attributes on following rows The three application columns will display the status of the product or attribute for that application using a variation of the SpecLink link status display system red green yellow checked x ed and empty in recognizable shapes for the color blind The SpecLink status column will reflect the actual SpecLink project status of the product The CAD column will display a green square for each product that is indicated in an assembly forming a part of the CAD model Similarly a green square is displayed in the cost column for each product referenced by an assembly in use in the cost estimate Depending on the user s preferences when a CAD or cost
6. paragraphs e 102 334 internal links targets and consequences e 26 241 notes to specifier e 15 108 notes with live hyperlinks to Internet web pages e 2 119 external documents referenced with live hyperlinks to order information e 957 ASTMS referenced 100 verified within last 6 months e 1 162 other documents referenced 72 verified this quarter e 183 standards organizations referenced e 2 397 manufacturer listings with live hyperlinks to their web sites e 934 unique manufacturers listed in 365 non proprietary sections SHORT FORM SPECS STATISTICS e 16 sections corresponding to MasterFormat 1995 divisions e 6 sections updated 37 e 8 307 paragraphs e 1 563 notes to specifier 1 022 with live hyperlinks e 9 045 internal links targets and consequences e 363 external documents referenced e 224 ASTMS referenced 100 verified within last 6 months e 139 other documents referenced 70 verified this quarter e 43 standards organizations referenced PERSPECTIVE PERFORMANCE SPECS STATISTICS e 161 sections 6 updated 4 e 17 381 paragraphs e 21 886 internal links targets and consequences e 4 012 notes to specifier 920 with live hyperlinks e 187 external documents referenced with live hyperlinks to order information e S5OASTMsS referenced 100 verified within last 6 months e 137 other documents referenced 75 verified this quarter e 38 standards organizations referenced i Docume
7. product is added the corresponding product in SpecLink E will be recommended set to yellow or enabled set to green Note that the product in SpecLink E can have enabling links to other related text in the specification optionally pre editing the project specification based on CAD or cost estimating selections The prototype Uniformat view is expected to present a tree structure including three levels of the Uniformat classification system As assemblies are added to either the CAD model or the cost estimate they will be added to the Uniformat view The See BSD SpecLink on page 7 BSD LinkLine Winter 2006 BSD Software ALL PRODUCTS I can t find a Save As on the menu How do I save the project with a different name Our products are database applica m tions which means your changes are saved as you are editing You don t have to save the file because the program does it for you If you want to save the project with a different name close the project go to the File menu and Copy Project You then select the project you need to copy and when you get to the Enter Destination File Name give ita new name It will save the file with the new name When you open the file you should open the Summary Information dialog box and make any necessary changes You can also start a new project using your existing project as the project source in SpecLink or as the template in CostLink CM and AE Th
8. that AE 1s able to use quantities generated by the CAD environment and the cost estimate elements can recommend or optionally enable SpecLink E sections and paragraphs If these relationships sound complicated their implementation in a meaningful way is much more so WINTER 2006 Consider the following The building cost estimating process is essentially one of identifying quantifying and costing the erection installation or application of products to create the building The cost data that CostLink AE uses is provided by RS Means the leading purveyor of building cost data in the United States An RS Means cost database line item typically describes the cost to purchase and install a product such as metal studs drywall or paint An RS Means assembly such as those used by AE combines multiple line items to create a larger unit of construction such as a wall The use of assemblies makes estimating easier and faster than working with line items directly Cost data must have an organizing structure to be useful RS Means line item data is Building Systems Design s BSD SpecLink is unique in many ways Most users are aware for example that it is the only guide specification system based on a relational database However most users are not aware of the fact that BSD SpecLink is the only guide specifi cation system that automatically gathers information about how it is being used by its
9. the instructor to send us a letter on the school letterhead to the effect that 1 SpecLink will be used in a certain course for a certain term or terms and 2 use of SpecLink will be limited to faculty and student use for educational purposes only Along with name address etc that is the only information we require Subscrip tions must be renewed on an annual basis if a CD is needed a small shipping fee will be charged there is no charge at all for downloading from the BSD website In addition to serving established cur ricula BSD provides SpecLink to educa tional and nonprofit organizations for short term or one time events Recently we provided SpecLink for the Sheet Metal Workers International Association training center to use in teaching about the new MasterFormat 2004 edition the Master Format switch provided a vivid demon stration of how the new numbering scheme relates to the old We welcome inquiries from other trade and professional associations CSI chapters and continuing education providers If you would like us to provide the instructors we can do that too our instructor fees can be found on our website www bsdsoftlink com ey SPECLINK STATISTICS e 562 sections total 233 updated or new 41 e new non proprietary section e 525 non proprietary sections 227 updated or new 43 e 37 proprietary sections 6 updated 16 e 46 sections with built in checklists e 94 662
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11. Construction Phase Submittal review job site inspection and installation review e Closeout Punchlist creation To contact your local specification consultant call 800 377 3948 or go to www assaabloydss com THE INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES BSD intends to use application programming interfaces APIs to interoperate with CAD system projects in an interactive way keeping the LinkMan E interface up to date more or less in real time see BSD SpecLink The Next Generation article When discussing interoper ability we must consider the Industry Foundation Classes IFCs that the International Alliance for Interoper ability IAI is continuing to develop These are a set of object definitions that describe the building construc tion environment They can be viewed as standardized containers for construction information These containers need a classification system to be useful in passing cost estimating and specifications data For example software that interprets IFCs can identify a door object but there is no standard way to tell which door it is in terms of the RS Means door assemblies or in terms of the BSD master specifications And while a number of vendors have implemented the means to import and export IFCs as flat files that allow applications to talk in batch transactions none of the vendors we re familiar with have implemented application programming interfaces APIs that allow applic
12. ations to talk to each other in real time using IFCs This limits their usability when trying to actively link and maintain a specification and cost estimate in sync with the CAD model as the design estimate and specification continue to evolve However BSD applauds this international standardization effort and fully intends to utilize these standards as this type of communica tion becomes technologically and economically viable using mainstream programming techniques J BSD SpecLink continued from page 1 organized using MasterFormat a well known product oriented organizing structure Today MasterFormat is transitioning from the widely used 1995 version having 16 divisions 03 Concrete 04 Masonry 06 Metals etc to the 2004 version with over 40 divi sions It will take awhile for the estimating community to come to grips with the new structure and in the meantime the dual struc tures only complicate the line item linking process RS Means assemblies data uses the Uniformat structure Foundations Superstructure Exterior Closure etc which is significantly more appropriate for building systems and sub systems that are comprised of assemblies When performing an assembly based cost estimate after identifying the assemblies included in the building plans the estimator needs to quantify each assembly The quantities of the individual products the pricing basis that are included in the ass
13. click Export ra I have a section that looks like a subsection How did that happen and how do I fix it N When you copy an existing section orcreate a new section the new document becomes a subdocument to the document or folder that you click on in the Tree panel prior to pasting or creating the new section To fix it you will need to move the section Right click on the name of the section in the Tree panel and then choose Cut Section The Cut Section for Pasting dialog box opens asking you to confirm that it is cutting the correct section Verify that it Continued on next page Continued from previous page is and click OK Right click on the folder name in which the section should be and choose Paste Section Into The Paste dialog box opens giving you the opportunity to change the number acronym or name of the document Verify that the information is correct and then click OK The section is moved to the proper location You can also use this procedure to renumber a section 4 In SpecLink I have noticed tags in the T column that are not on the list that opens from the Tags button What are those other tags Tags that are not listed on the Tags button are used by BSD for mainte nance of our master database For your information KW stands for keyword MT is used to mark manufacturer list titles and UM is an obsolete tag that has been replaced by the ML tag For a complete list of tags their uses and whe
14. e is entered on the m General tab of the Project Summary Info dialog box along with an optional project number description and the names of the Architect Engineer and Estimator All of this information prints on the title page of your estimate and the Project Title also prints in the header of each page of your report Is it possible to include my company s logo on the reports What is the difference between the Project Title and the Report Header The Report Header is entered in the Reports Setup dialog box as an optional name to distinguish your report from other reports of the same project For instance you may print a report when the project design is only 65 complete and you want to note that on your printout When you print the final report at 100 complete you would change the Report Header to reflect this CosTLINK CM C In CostLink CM I m trying to open my assemblies database and I get Error 3045 Could not use filepath Assemblies MAS If you have Access 2000 installed your computer recognizes the Assemblies database extension MAS as an Access file To change this open Windows Explorer and go to the Tools menu and choose Folder Options Click the File Types tab and locate the MAS extension Click on it and then click on Delete w A N More questions Contact BSD Technical Support Toll Free 800 266 7732 In Atlanta 404 365 9226 Email support bsdsoftlink com BSD SpecLi
15. embly are generated by the formulas inherent in the assembly itself 0 A Project Name Ea E e E Metals Metal Joists e t i 3D CAD systems produced by vendors such as Autodesk Bentley Systems Graphisoft and others provide drawing tools and objects that are most often represented in the cost estimate as assemblies of multiple products For example a door object in CAD will be represented by an assembly in the cost estimate that is comprised of the door itself the frame for the door and the finish to the door A wall object in CAD will be represented by an estimate assembly L n kLi ne that includes metal studs drywall and the taping and finishing Note that A BSD SoftLink Publication the dimensions and quantities that can be generated by the CAD software are those for the assembly not its constitu ent line items or products Editor Niki Koplowitz The LinkLine is published by Building Systems Design Inc 3520 Piedmont Road NE Suite 415 Atlanta GA 30305 Specifications on the other hand deal in products as opposed to assemblies and the properties or attributes of those products A specifi cation section generally describes and specifies one or more products in terms of their attributes Quantities are essentially immaterial in the construc Permission to use excerpts in other publications is granted provided the publisher is notified in advance at 404 365 8900
16. er manufacturers entered DY users ccsiccwsiecinsasunee 127 times The data tells us that fiberglass faced gypsum board materials were specified on 655 projects and predecorated gypsum board was specified on only 49 projects In addition to generic statistical data about overall usage we can gather information about specific projects when our subscribers permit that data transfer For instance we have information about 41 projects in Alabama so far this year that have used Section 09 2116 09260 whereas we have data on 43 such projects in Illinois and 46 in New York Knowing which sections are used most frequently and which ones are used only occasionally allows us to assign re sources more efficiently for maintenance and expansion of data This information will also help us determine which associations and other industry organi zations to pursue for assistance in improving the specifications database Individual manufacturers also may find the data useful in determining how to improve their competitive positions in the construction marketplace In the final analysis improvement of our product is our primary goal and we believe the more information we can gather on how BSD SpecLink is being used the better our chances will be of keeping our customers satisfied BSD LinkLine Winter 2006 NEw SPECLINK SECTIONS 07 5400 07540 THERMOPLASTIC MEMBRANE ROOFING This section covers single ply TPO and PVC me
17. gths that address different stages of their clients projects The A E construction manage ment real estate development and consult ing firms can either work independently on individual pieces or work together as a complete solution Either way they share a common history and a common goal their clients satisfaction For close to 100 years three generations of the Roth family have been ensuring quality design and construction projects completed on time and within budget Roth completed projects can be seen throughout the Southeastern Michigan area and Eastern United States The Roth Companies have also constructed many high profile religious structures in the area receiving awards from industry associations and organizations including the Engineering Society of Detroit American Institute of Architects and Masonry Institute of Michigan The Need Whether it is construction materials drafting supplies or management systems The Roth Companies have always wanted the best tools for their company BSD LinkLine Winter 2006 Aiar Pentastar Entrance and their clients As users of BSD s SpecLink for their specification writing they wanted to bring that same level of ease and professionalism to their estimating process Mark Roth President of Roth amp Associates remarks We wanted to be able to prepare an estimate of probable costs for a project in a professional looking format And we needed t
18. is method is generally better because the Summary Info Dialog Box will open automatically E I want to start BSD software from an icon on my desktop How do I do that To start any program from your desktop you create a shortcut To create a shortcut open Windows Explorer either by right clicking on the Start menu or by holding down the Windows key on your keyboard while typing the letter E and size it so that you can see your desktop in the background Navigate to where the software is installed The default location for SpecLink is C SpecLink the default location for CostLink CM is C CostLink CM and the default location for CostLink AE is C CostLink AE Locate the executable file SpecLnk exe for SpecLink CstLnkCM exe for CostLink CM and CstLnkAE exe for CostLink AE With your right mouse button drag the executable file to your desktop Release the right mouse BSD LinkLine Winter 2006 button when it is over the desktop and a menu will open From the menu choose Create Shortcut Here If you created the shortcut properly it will have a little arrow on the bottom left corner If it does not have a little arrow then you moved the exe instead of creating a shortcut Move it back and try again using the right mouse button only SPECLINK AND PERSPECTIVE C In SpecLink how do I find a section on a particular product There is a catalog listing of all the sections in a searchable Word format o
19. lly automatic All active sections whether master sections or user added will be listed No extra formatting is necessary If you are using the Table of Contents section and it is the formatting that you do not like for the most part that can be changed in SpecLink or PerSpective You can turn off the automatic paragraph numbering for just the table of contents as described in the previous question You can also customize the formatting to change the spacing before and after paragraphs and the indents of each paragraph from the Tools menu choose Customize Styles and from the Style Set dropdown list choose Block For information on further customizations that can be performed using the Modify Para graph Format dialog box see the updated copy of the Printing chapter in the User Manual on the BSD SoftLink CD ROM Once you have customized the formatting for the table of contents print just the table of contents Change the Style Set back to what it was originally set on before you print the other documents If you require formatting options that are not available in SpecLink or PerSpective or if it is not the formatting that you dislike the table of contents can be exported to Rich Text Format RTF which can be edited in any word processor except WordPerfect 8 0 To export choose File gt Print and set up the Reports dialog box as you would if you wanted to print just the table of contents Then instead of clicking Print
20. mbrane roofing and related accessories insulation vapor retarder and ballast Specified applications of thermoplastic membrane roofing include loose laid adhered and mechanically fastened installations Accessories included are base flashings primary flashings for roof penetrations and interruptions integral roofing expansion joints etc Cant strips can be included in this section or referenced elsewhere Only one basic roofing system can be specified for a given project but variations of substrates vapor retarders and insulations can be accommodated both conventional and protected membrane applications can be specified provided the basic membrane is the same Virtually any type of insulation may be specified as well as several types of deck sheathing This section includes an optional checklist that based on user selections will automatically select and edit the majority of text that will be required E FEATURED MANUFACTURER 08 7100 08710 DOOR HARDWARE ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions has consolidated many famous brands of hardware into a single organization making it easy to get the best advice and service on this complicated subject For mortise and cylindrical locks and exit devices choose from Corbin Russwin Sargent or Yale For door closers add the top of the line Norton and Rixson BSD LinkLine Winter 2006 brands McKinney is well known for hinges and now also provides floor and
21. n the CD Itis located in info SpecPlus Open the file and use Find in your word processor to search for the section you need The catalog listings are also on our website at www bsdsoftlink com speclink catalogs all_catalogs htm You can get the listings in either MasterFormat 1995 or MasterFormat 2004 e How do I change the formatting of an entire section without saving a user defined style If you would like to turn off the m automatic numbering for an entire section first select the text of all the paragraphs To do that click to place your cursor to the left of the first letter in the first paragraph the title paragraph in the section Then hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys on your keyboard while you press the End key The background of all the para graphs should turn black To turn off the numbering from the Document menu choose No AutoNumber e A SpecLink users should note that A m there are actually two tables of contents One is section 00010 and the other is a fully automatic table of contents that can be printed by choosing File gt Print then in the Reports dialog box from the Report to Print drop down list choose Table of Contents There is a checkbox at the bottom of the Reports dialog box which allows you to choose whether or not you want the page count of each section to print on the table of contents This table of I don t like the table of contents Are there any options contents is fu
22. nk continued from page 5 Uniformat view grid will display status of the assembly and each of its constituent products in the respective application columns and the quantity of the assembly in the respective application s quantity column The LME interface will provide tools and commands for aggregating connecting and disconnecting CAD quantities with respect to the CostLink AE assemblies BSD is in the process of building lists and tables within its Master Specifications database that identify each product and tag it with a unique ID We are working with CAD systems to determine how best to tag CAD assembly objects with one or more appropriate product IDs from our Master database We are also planning to similarly tag RS Means line items with the appropri ate product ID such that assemblies that include that line item will also be tagged with the product ID The primary purpose of the LinkMan E interface is to provide a dashboard that allows the project manager or other user to easily coordinate the project The user should be able to easily identify what products in the CAD model have not been accommodated in the specifications and what items are identified in the specifica tions that might not be shown or used in the model It should readily show where cost estimate quantities differ from those in the model and what items in the specifications have not been included in the estimate or vice versa Secondarily LME sh
23. nts issued more than two years ago are verified quarterly as are annual or semiannual publications The documents not verified this quarter were updated within the past two years Roth continued from page 2 savings Roth has experienced several other productivity advantages with CostLink A E He says We now have the ability to quickly update an estimate And we can easily compare the costs of alternate design solutions The Outcome What Roth likes best about BSD CostLink A E 1s the ability to build an estimate by combining both the assembly costs and unit price costs allowing him to provide clients with a complete estimate in a format he is proud to present a With CostLink A E we now have the ability to quickly update an estimate And we can easily compare the costs of alternate design solutions Mark Roth President Roth amp Associates Stats continued from page I For Metal Framing Materials Clark Steel Framing Systems 1 427 times Dietrich Metal Framing 1 559 times Marino Ware cseceseeeeeceeees 1 195 times Telling Industries s ccseeccsaesineespneennxs 383 times The Steel Network Inc 318 times Other manufacturers entered DY Users ecsssecsssecsseewsncws 88 times For Gypsum Board Materials G P Gypsum Corporation 2 457 times National Gypsum Company 2 469 times MG seis teers E TE 2 534 times Oth
24. o be able to do this no matter where we started the project even in the schematic or preliminary design phase Before we started using CostLink A E we basically did everything by hand We had to look up the information then type up the estimate or use a spreadsheet With years of experi ence in design estimating and construction Roth amp Associates recognized a good solution when they saw it and decided to make CostLink A E part of their toolset The Solution Roth estimates that by switching to CostLink A E his firm has achieved 40 time savings over their previous method In addition to time See Roth on page 3 COMPLIMENTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO SPECLINK BSD offers SpecLink to all educational institutions free of charge Over the years over 40 universities colleges and technical schools have used SpecLink in various curricula Some schools have a faculty champion and an ongoing course offering but most depend on a particular faculty member who may or may not be teaching the same course the next year What s especially interesting is that some technical schools and community colleges have been our most consistent subscrib ers This may reflect the diminished emphasis in architectural schools on practice issues perhaps the technical schools are filling that void In any case any school that wishes to use SpecLink in a course only needs to ask for a subscrip tion The simplest method 1s for the dean or
25. ould support genera tion of initial specifications either building a recommendation or actually enabling the specification text as the CAD model and or cost estimate are developed It should support connecting model objects to the cost estimate so that as the model grows or changes estimate quantities are automati cally updated to reflect the change We welcome feedback on our visions and planned implementations Part of our purpose in revealing product designs in development is to elicit comment Our goal as always is to help you improve your productivity and the quality of your work ii BSD LinkLine Winter 2006 Training Schedule BSD CostLink CM 3 days 1295 The BSD SpecLink Workshop The BSD SpecLink Workshop consists of two one day workshops The first day is devoted to learning the basics of SpecLink including how to navigate within the software start a new project edit sections understand how the links and choices work and how to format print and export the final document It is designed for new users The second day is designed for those who want to learn how to create and maintain their own office master This day covers the concepts of an office mas ter how to customize your master by add ing choices links and tags as well as cre ating your own checklists Users must al ready be familiar with the basics of SpecLink to attend the second day BSD SpecLink Either Day 495 Both Days
26. re they normally appear see Requirements Reports either in the online Help or in the Printing chapter in the User Manual For directions on using tags see Tags in the online Help or in the Creating an Office Master chapter in the User Manual 4 I want to email my project to some one who does not have the software How can I do that You can email an individual section a division or the entire project To do that click on the File menu and then select Print From the Report Setup dialog box select Document as your Report to Print and select either Section Branch or Project as the Scope of Report Then click on the Export button on the right side of the dialog box Select the folder where the files should be created You will have an RTF rich text format file for each section or chapter These can be emailed and or opened in most word processors If you have Adobe Acrobat Writer or Distiller installed you can also create pdf files From the Report Setup dialog box change your default printer to Acrobat PDF Writer or Acrobat Distiller and print as normal Select the folder where the files should be created CosTLINK AE AND CosTLINK CM e A To insert a logo into the standard reports rename the logo to logo bmp logo jpg or logo gif and place that file into your CostLink CM or CostLink AE System Reports folder The logo will automatically print in the top right corner of your reports el A The Project Titl
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