12.05.04 How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deactivating a Plan Set

When you create a bid, you activate one or more Plans Sets - this creates Pages for that bid. Later, if you go back and deactivate a Plan Set, if there are Plans in that Plan Set that are Unique Plans (see below) for any Pages, those Pages will no longer have a Plan associated with them and the "Current Set" field is blank. Although the Page is not removed from the Project, because it has no entry for "Current Set", the Page does not exist for the bid from which you launched the Plan Organizer.

There are two main ways Pages can be deleted from the Plan Organizer:

• You open the Plan Organizer and delete them, we cover that in the previous article (Deliberately Deleting Pages).
• You do something that causes them to be removed (deleted), there are four things you can do that cause a Page or Pages to be removed:
• You edit a Plan Set and delete a Plan that was the only Plan associated with a Page (a Page cannot be "blank") (How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deleting a Unique Plan)
• You delete a Plan Set that included the only Plan for one or more Pages (How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deleting a Plan Set)
• You deactivate a Plan Set that included the only Plan for one or more Pages (covered below)
• After saving a Plan Set, you edit it an match a Plan to another Page (Sheet) No. (How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted when Revision Matching after Saving a Plan Set)

We do not do this often, but we are starting this article with a Warning.

Activating a Plan Set (adding Pages)

For our example, we consider the project's Plan Organizer screenshot below. We have not activated any Plan Sets so the "Current Set" is blank. The Pages do not "exist" in this bid, yet. 

So, we activate all three Plan Sets (Original, Rev 1, and Rev 2).

• The Original Set created Pages (Sheets) A1.20, A2.21, A2.22, and A2.23.
• The 2nd Set (Rev 1) was an update to A1.20 so it did not create any additional Pages (Sheets).
• The 3rd Set (Rev 2), was an update to A2.21 and A2.23 and created Pages (Sheets 000007) and A2.22b. A2.22b is really an update to Page 4 (A2.22), but the estimator made a mistake and did not match it correctly when he or she created the Plan Set, we touched on what happens when you revision match after saving a Plan Set in a previous article, but we cover it in more detail in the articles that follow.

Pages with Unique Plans

In our example, there are three Pages with "Unique Plans" meaning there is only one Plan or drawing associated with the Page. 

• Page 1 (Sheet No. 000007) exists because it was created from a plan in Rev 2 - it does not exist in Rev 1 or the Original Set. Addendum 2 is the only Plan Set in which a plan exists for this Page (Sheet)
• Page 4 (Sheet No. A2.22) exists because it was created from a plan in the Original Set. Again, the Original Set is the only Plan Set that contains a Plan associated with this Page. 
• Page 6 (Sheet No. A2.22b) exists because it was not matched to Page 4 (Sheet No. A2.22) when the Plan Set "Rev 2" was added. It should be a Revision of Sheet No. A2.22 but as it stands, it is a separate Page with a Unique Plan.
• All other Pages have at least 2 Plans associated with them. For example - Page 2 (Sheet No. A1.20) - if we deleted Rev 1, we would still have at least one Plan associated with that Page so deleting the Plan would not cause the Page to be removed.

In the Plan Organizer, we are going to deactivate Plan Set "Rev2" (which created Page 1 (Sheet No. 000007) and Page 6 (Sheet No. A2.22B). 

In the column headers, uncheck the box next to "Rev2". 

You are required to confirm the action.

If you proceed:

• There will no longer be a Plan for Page 1 and Page 6 in the Current Set.
• Pages 1 and 6, because they do not have a Plan in the Current Set are removed from this bid. You can see this on the Takeoff Tab, in the Page Navigation drop-down.
• Any takeoff or annotations you or any other user has drawn on that Page are deleted.
• Any Named Views or Punch Items that exist on this Page are deleted (Punch List history and photos are deleted as well).
• All File Attachments on this Page are deleted.

If you are sure you want to deactivate the Plan Set, click Deactivate Set.

Note

Even after confirming this action, you have one last chance to change your mind. The Page(s) is not removed until you click Save in the Plan Organizer window.

When you click Save, the Page(s) that no longer have a Plan associated with them, and everything on that Page(s), is removed from this bid only (other bids within the same project are unaffected by activating/deactivate sets in this bid). There is no recovering the objects stored on the Pages that are to be removed - even if you re-activate the Plan Set in the future.

On the Takeoff Tab, we can see the new Plans inventory.

In our example, notice that the original Page 1 (Sheet No. 000007) and the original Page 6 (Sheet A2.22b) are gone from the Page Navigator.

Final Warning

Anything that exists on the Pages you cause to be removed is deleted, irretrievably. If you are not absolutely sure that neither you nor any other user has used this Page, click Cancel. 

• Return to the Takeoff Tab and navigate to the Page(s) that you are going to cause to be deleted. Make sure there is nothing on them. If there is, move it to another Page.
• Return to the Plan Organizer and proceed with deactivating the Plan Set.

How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deleting a Plan Set

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