Line Meets Curve

Hey everyone! Atlanta is in the midst of the dog days of summer. It’s hitting in the triple digits here so we hope you are all staying cool and having a good holiday break no matter where you are.

Let’s jump right on in:

New Features - 550 has released* or will soon release a few new great additions to its feature set.

Sets Management* - This new take on document management is specifically for the AEC crowd, though anyone can use it for anything that gets revised a lot. Sets management gives you the ability to upload all your drawings as a pending set and keep them editable while you or your team are working with them (last minute changes never happen to you?) and then you can lock the set down once you’re satisfied and notify everyone that it’s all there. But that’s not where it ends.

The set you just uploaded may be the first or the tenth in a series of sets (addenda, revisions, permit sets etc) that make up the most current set of drawings. Sets Managements takes the most recent file out of each uploaded set that has the same name (and other criteria) and assembles it into the Pending Release Set which is the unofficial and most current version of the locked Current Release Set, which is the last published version of the drawings.

Again, when it’s time to publish the next Current Release Set and you’re satisfied all the best drawings are uploaded, then it’s just a matter of locking the files and VOILA! A new Current Release Set is born and a new, blank, Pending Release Set screen is waiting for uploads of the next revision or maybe the project is just finished? Cool.

Templates - Well okay, they aren’t entirely new. BUT THEY ARE! We’ve completely rewritten them from the ground up to perform better and now you can add data to your templates to create those useful checklists, specifications, punch-lists, and all kinds of other lists that you have been duplicating manually in the past. A time saver, to be sure. These will be up and running next week.

Data Uploading from CSV files - You will soon be able to upload your information from your existing databases or lists into your new or existing 550 lists.

Your address book from Outlook? Export it as a CSV file from Outlook and import it to 550. If you don’t have a list to import it into, 550 will give you the option to create one automatically.

Have databases full of data you want to upload? No problem. Just export them as CSV files and upload them into 550 and it will create the new lists for you with the data intact.

If you want to import a CSV file into an existing list but the columns don’t match there’s a tool to help you out.

We’ve done a lot of other things as well. Below if a brief summary and we’ve listed some of the other things we’ll be working on over the next couple of months.

Summary

Upgrades and Fixes

• Templates with Data
• Sets Management
• CSV Uploads of Data into New or Existing 550 Lists
• Column Mapping tools for uploaded CSV files to existing lists
• Quick Launch panels for Workspace Summary & Guest Account SkyView Pages
• Added customizable field to invitation emails
• Fixed known issues with sorting and pagination
• Fixed attachment issues with Submittal & RFI Lists
• Fixed a couple of Calendar issues
• Much more…

Coming Soon

• Streamlined Administration user screens
• Workspace templates
• Streamlined Bid Process Invitation Management
• Calendar functionality
• Much more…