JasonWhyte

I've been working on a big change order for an old project. So old, that it was orgianlly created on a computer with completey different packages, database, ect.

Anyhow, I'm at the very end of this 40 page change order and I accidentally delete one of the packages, and I don't have access to the original.

I have the line items, I have the prices. How can I recreate the package in such a way that it doesn't show a bunch of deletes and adds for the same items in the change order report?

AND WHY THE HECK ISN'T THERE AN UNDO FUNCTION!?

Even Notepad has undo....

SenoS

Thanks for the feedback. An undo feature is being considered for a future release. There is no way that I can think of add that package back to the project to have it not show as a change. The comparisons we use are based on GUIDS so once a product is removed and then added back, new GUIDS are assigned. The only method I could think of to not have those products show up is to redo the Change Order.


1. promote the revision made before the changes to the “working” project
2. create a new revision of the project
3. make your changes
4. run the Change Order report

Kevin Mikelonis

Its unfortunatle that you are in this jam.

With large changes to a project, its a good practice to break up the changes into multiple project revisions.

Think about doing them room by room, or system by system, saving as a revision along the way.

This way you have multiple revisions for each related set of changes.

You can still present the client one change order by comparing the last rev to the first.

Sort of like saving your work as you go along.

We have not found the revision manager to be real stable at this time, so it might be trciky in SI5, but its a good practice for future projects with lots'o'changes

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RandyB

Good points Kevin. The Revision Manager will be a good place to take care of things like this once we get the bugs worked out. We're currently working on resolving these, and should have a much more stable feature in the next Service Pack.

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