| What's new? The sun is shining and gardens are blooming here in Seattle. With the economy also finally showing signs of life, we've heard from a number of people who have landed new positions, and firms that are gearing-up for new projects. |  | | | Desktop | Recently a good friend directed me to a couple of extreamly good articles published in Steelcase's '360'. Anyone interested in workplace trends should read these (several times):
'Offices on the Cutting Edge, Don't just shrink. Rethink.' and 'How Emerging Work Strategies are Changing the Workplace'
Best wishes, Jacqui | | On the brain | Organizations of every stripe, world-wide are merging, restructuring and looking for ways to reduce real estate costs. 100% of these need to analyze and re-invent their facilities. Programming and planning specialists should be preparing for a huge wave of RFPs.
The earnest desktop applications are uniqely suited to this task, the firms using these tools have a significant advantage in winning projects, keeping fees competitive and managing to stay profitable. Time to do some marketing… | | Fields of (good) questions: | Q: One of our user's created a project some time ago, and because they now have a new laptop with a new installation of the system files, we can't find the project. How do we find and connect to it again?
A: If you still have access to the files from the old machine (a backup is usually made before a machine is wiped), you can do a search for the file that stores this information. Do this:
1. Search for the file that stores the project and pathing information - depending on which application was in use, it is named either “SRP10Lib.mdb”; or rDs9Lib.mdb; or iFs9Lib.mdb;
2. From WINDOWS EXPLORER, OPEN it (in Microsoft Access);
3. From the TABLES tab dbl click to open the ‘PROJECTS’ table;
4. You will see one or more records, with each of the projects that the user has created and the full path to where the project data files are stored.
5. Print out (menu bar select FILE; PRINT) or copy the information you need to a temporary place (like OneNote or a .txt document); CLOSE the file, you are finished with it.
6. OPEN the APPLICATION; from the main screen click the PROJECT NAVIGATION button; and RESTORE the project file. | Q: My client has asked for a copy of our completed room data sheet information in electronic form. What's the best way to do this?
S.E., Chicago
A: If your client only needs to view or mark-up the reports on screen, the easiest and quickest way is to save the set of final reports as .pdf files. If your client wants to be able to edit and recalculate totals you should find out what format they prefer - a simple export routine can be added to the application to create a deliverable file in just about any file format. | Q: We're upgrading to Office 2007 soon. Will the Earnest applications we use need to be upgraded too?
A: No upgrade should be necessary, although if you plan to reinstall the Earnest desktop application files you may want check with us to confirm that you have the latest version. Update and replacement files are free to Subscribers, otherwise there is a minimal charge. |
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| What's coming. | | | Access 2010 and Sharepoint | Monday, April 26, 2010
Last month we worked with the Microsoft Access Development Team in Redmond WA on final testing of the BETA version of Microsoft Access 2010. We focused on the new Web-enabled Access database development tools, and experimented with uploading a web-enabled Earnest SRP directly to Sharepoint, using the newly introduced Access Services. This promises to be a less expensive solution for developing browser-based applications that can be deployed to a Sharepoint environment, as opposed to a full SaaS or Cloud-ready application. More on this soon! | | Revit data. | Monday, April 26, 2010
A number of our customers have asked us to experiment with importing and exporting data between Earnest applications and Autodesk's Revit. SaaS We have several examples now of how this can reduce data imput and QA hours by mapping data from drawings against programmed data in Earnest rDs and Earnest SRP, and furniture quantifications in in Earnest iFs. There are a lot of exiting opportunities to explore here. | | Milestones | |
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