Status Check – HCSS Services
I didn’t know this existed but with more and more companies using various services provided by HCSS, especially HeavyBid, you can get the current status of each service with this website and you can subscribe to get emails. If there is any one suggestion I…
Lock Estimates
An estimator leaves your company and brings with him or her some or all of your company’s estimates. That is a huge amount of intellectual data that is on the streets. I see other company’s estimates at my trainings so I know this occurs. HCSS…
Securing Your HeavyBid Setup
Goal: Protect the System Wide Codebooks and Setting from accidental modification but the secondary goal can be to also protect the Master Estimate(s). The problem with passwording the Master Estimate is that every estimate created from that Master will require a password to access it….
Backup System Wide Files
While the backup by action now offers an huge improvement over just manual backups there is still an issue with the system wide files like the Activity and Material Codebooks. All the system wide files can only backup to one file but you can selectively…
Location of Manual and Automatic Backups
With 2013.1 automatic backups by action was introduced. It is a great feature. I recommend keeping the backups automatically created (like when exiting HeavyBid) in a separate directory so the manual backups are easily viewed in their own folder. This is easy to set up….
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