V2018.1 HeavyBid Now Available
August is here and that means there is a new update to HeavyBid. HeavyBid 2018.0 is amazing and I highly recommend updating your install to this version in the near future. Lots of new features that will set the stage for future awesome elements. V2018.1…
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….
HeavyBid Path to Success for a New Customer
HCSS recently put this out. It is a good guide for a new HeavyBid customer. LINK HCSS Academy is not mentioned in the document but is an excellent source also for videos on HeavyBid subjects. The list of videos will grow and I expect the…
Export All Quote Folders to One Excel Spreadsheet
You get done with an estimate and want to export all the quote folders with vendors/sub quotes to one Excel spreadsheet. Maybe it is for the job handoff or for a bid review. Before you export a setting has to be adjusted first in Excel….
Subtotals using Summary Group Values
Summary Groups (Adv/Comp Version) provide a quick way to get subtotals. A lot of users bypass this feature of HeavyBid as they think it is hard to understand. I will cover in another post how to setup Summary Groups but once values are assigned to…
New Tree Bid Item Filters in V2018
V2018 has many very cool features. One of these is the way to filter just Direct Biditems and then not show Non-Additive items in Tree View. So if you have an estimate that has a lot of Non-Additive biditems you can filter your tree view…
Minority Goals in HeavyBid – Settings
If their is more than one minority goal for the project and/or subs/vendors qualify for more than one goal then there are some issues you need to consider. Here they are: If the minority type for the estimate doesn’t exist, add to the list in…
Version 2018 HeavyBid – New Archive Estimate Feature
I love this new tool. Most of the users probably like me were probably not looking for the feature but once introduced it is like “where was this all my life?” But you have to determine how best to use it. Plan how you are…
HeavyBid Cheat Sheet
Long ago when you purchase HeavyBid you received a box. In it was the program disk (or disks depending how long ago it was), VHS tapes on how to install HeavyBid and some tutorials and a laminated tri-fold cheat sheet. This is my version of…
How to run Project 2016 Standalone and Office 365
I know many HCSS customers are migrating to Office 365 which is a very cost effective way to get enterprise email service and all the Office Apps (except Project). Since HeavyBid can only export to Project installed on your own server or computer, not the…
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