2021.10.0.0 11/16/2021

Version 2021.10.0.1 is a scheduled update to ConstructConnect Takeoff that includes redesigning the Revisions & Overlays process, rewording some tooltips and prompts, and continued improvements to stability, especially in multi-user environments.

Features (What's New)

Changes (What's Different)

• Based on customer feedback, users will be prompted to adjust Revisions/Overlays to match base images on the Takeoff Tab within the product, instead of the application resizing them automatically.
• A tooltip is shown to let users know a new Revision has been added so they can activate Overlay to compare. See 12.00 What are Revisions (or Addenda Sets or Issues)? for more information.
• To improve multi-user experience (avoiding crashes causes by more than one person editing/updating a Projects Plan Sets at the same time), we added an “Edit Plan Organizer” button (bottom-right). See 03.04.01 Creating a Project Manually - Step 2 - Adding Your First (Initial) Plan Set and 04.01 What is the Plan Organizer and How Do I Use It? for more information.

Fixes

The following bugs were squashed based on customer feedback or a high probability that a customer would encounter them:

• TD-22262 – Customer Escalation Case # 01806050 – use lexicographic sorting when rows in the Summary are grouped by Area.
• TD-22260 - "Collapse all columns" button does not work in Summary tab.
• TD-22011 - Deleting a Takeoff Item after using the Next/Previous arrow in the Takeoff Item Properties window crashes the application.
• TD-21839 - Moving Summary Tab window when the Calculation modal is displayed freezes application.
• TD-21819 - Discarding changes after editing a Takeoff Items causes the "Unsaved Changes" message to continue to display the next time the Takeoff Item is opened, then closed (without making any changes).
• TD-21675 - Recalculating issue after the program closes before calculations were complete.
• TD-21521 – Multi-user crash when one user deletes a Typical Group Item while another user is editing it.
• TD-20091 - The Assign (to Selected Area) button is greyed-out in an additional, detached Takeoff window.
• TD-20075 - Takeoff Item Groups are not sorting in the Takeoff Item Window correctly when Takeoff Item Window Columns is grouped by Groups because duplicate Groups are created when adding Takeoff Items.
• TD-20056 - Deleting a Typical Group item when TG frame has takeoff in it changes current Page selection to page where the TG frame exists.
• TD-20055 - Users can delete the default (system) Takeoff Item Results.
• TD-19504 - Pressing <Ctrl>+<Tab> (to switch between open screens) causes the program to freeze up.
• TD-22257 - To avoid causing issues related to uploading several files concurrently, we limit the number of upload threads to "2".
• OCC-3625 - Reopening a bid after deactivating the last set in a bid with a revision doesn't remove Punch Items that were on that page.
• OCC-3622 - Drawing a Typical Group Frame after reactivating a plan set with Typical groups, in a project with more than one bid, caused the application to shut down unexpectedly.

Based on analysis of program logs, we addressed the following:

• Added program locks when user creates/edits Typical Groups to prevent multiple users from editing items for the same project simultaneously to avoid crashes
• Added user messaging when an invalid calculation is about to occur and prevent it from happening
• Prevent an unhandled exception (that caused several crashes in August) when users' DNS changes (the application now updates DNS information every two minutes as opposed to only doing it once while it the program is open)
• Fixed an issue (that caused some crashes in August) when the background recalculation engine fails to get all the pages whose totals need to be updated by adding a calculation message to let the user know to retry the action
• Fixed an error occurring when the application started, by delaying initialization of the calculation engine by one minute
• Fixed an error causing a crash when the application tries to get all the locks for a project and the user experienced internet connection issues

Known Issues