The Drawing Form serves as a powerful tool with functionality akin to a pivot table. It allows you to effortlessly oversee and control all shop drawings within your entire project portfolio through a unified global view.
Organize your data to gain invaluable insights by arranging it in a manner that best suits your needs.
Take advantage of a wide array of grouping and sorting options, leveraging over a dozen properties associated with your drawing records. This flexibility empowers you to tailor your view, facilitating a seamless exploration of your project information.
Manage what you see, and how you see it.
Sorting, Grouping, Filtering, and Managing your Data Attribute Columns
Click the left mouse button on any column header to perform a quick sort based on that column. Alternatively, right-click to access a pop-up menu offering options for grouping, sorting, filtering, and controls to show/hide columns. You can also adjust column widths and configure conditional formatting through this menu.
Drawing Properties (Attributes/Metadata)
Property | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|
Type | “Select Drawing Type” window | |
Group | optional | free text field, organize drawings into groups |
Number | automatic | identifying number assigned by application |
Rev | automatic | revision number |
No | optional | alphanumeric field, edit directly to add a unique identifier |
Description | optional | alphanumeric field, edit directly, descriptive name |
Status | “Drawing Status” window | |
Date fields:
| Left-click to open “Select a Date/Time” window Edit the Date field, or select from calendar | |
Action Required By | optional | “Select Action Required By” window |
Vendor | optional | “Select Vendor” window |
Text fields:
| optional | alphanumeric fields, edit directly as desired |