Use Cost Items on the Advanced Catalog Editing toolbar to add multiple folders at the same time which saves you time and effort when you need to add many cost items at once. You can renumber multiple cost items or change the descriptions and references of multiple cost items. If need to modify a single item, then this feature is not as effective as Catalog Items.
The application adds cost items based on the criteria entered in the Enter Reference Index Criteria fields. You specify the number of cost items to create and the format of the reference numbers, which includes the starting number, the increment between numbers, and the length of the segment. For example:
Enter Reference Index Criteria Settings |
Cost Items are created with these references |
|---|---|
Created for parent folder 01 Amount: 5 Starting Index Number: 1 Increment: 1 Length (digits after): 1 |
01.01 01.02 01.03 01.04 01.05 |
Created for parent folder 01 Amount: 7 Starting Index Number: 3 Increment: 2 Length (digits after): 3 |
01.003 01.005 01.007 01.009 01.011 01.013 01.015 |
The Advanced Catalog Editing toolbar needs to be enabled on the Settings tab of the Estimating Preferences screen before you can access it by clicking More on the speedbar.
To open a job in the Manage Estimates screen, click in the All Tasks pane. Then select the job you want to open, and click OK.