Client Schedule Input
10. Can I enter alpha/numeric Client's page number?
Yes - alphanumeric up to 8 characters long
11. Can I enter alpha/numeric Schedule item number to match client's schedule?
Yes - alphanumeric up to 20 characters long. A specification reference number, up to 20 characters long, can also be entered against schedule items.
12. Can I enter alpha/numeric Schedule headings to match client's schedule?
Yes - unlimited text
13. Can I enter full client's schedule description to match client's schedule?
Yes - unlimited text
14. Can I enter client's schedule unit to match?
Yes - 6 characters in length
15. Can I enter client's schedule quantity with decimalisation?
Yes - referred to as the "Bill" quantity, decimals as entered or changed as required
16. Can I enter calculated actual quantities that are expected at the end of the contract (to be used for tender loading etc)?
Yes - referred to as the "Final" quantity, decimals as entered or changed as required
17. Can I enter Provisional Sums and Prime Cost items (Token items)?
Yes - also "attendance or profit as a percentage on item above". Specialised facilities exist to enter and report on Provisional sums and Prime cost items.
18. Can we select columns for easy schedule input?
Yes - there are a large number of different columns and combinations of columns available for the user to create documents to suit his requirements
19. Is it possible to adjust column widths on the screen
Yes - and to specify default widths to use when displaying a new document
20. Can certain columns be locked columns when scrolling horizontally?
Yes – default for documents that have horizontal time-related forecasts or graphic representation that require independent horizontal scrolling. Certain column combinations are locked or “frozen” by default when horizontally expansive data is analysed or viewed in conjunction with the key data.
21. Can we enter Sub total points in the schedule?
Yes - Section heading totals, page totals, carried forward/brought forward amounts, collection pages, etc
22. Can the order of items be swapped?
Yes - drag and drop or keyboard hot keys
23. Is it possible to change the paging of items?
Yes – Copying items or pages, renumbering items or pages, bubbling items between pages
24. How do I insert items and pages?
Yes - Drag and drop, keyboard hot keys, “Go to and insert page” and specialised menu items
25. Is navigating through schedule pages easy?
Yes - Single and multi-page modes. Navigate using scroll-bar, page navigation keys, or keyboard hot keys. Documents can be collapsed into their section headings and opened selectively at required position.
26. Is there a facility to re-number schedule items?
Yes - variety of methods and styles of item renumbering
27. Can I import schedule from a diskette or excel?
Yes - schedule import from Excel, delimited files, copy and paste, text files. Also, direct import from popular Bill of Quantities creation software.
28. Can I import a scanned schedule?
No - however we will import text files created by standard scanning software
29. Is there a facility to copy items from a library or previous jobs?
Yes - Drag and drop, copy and paste, by specified page range, “Recall stack” and “ALT documents” (specialised documents for rapid copying)
30. Can I locate items in a library job and copy them to a new job quickly?
Yes - Library documents run concurrently with schedule and location of library items by code, "Go to", filter, find and sort.
31. Is there a modern keyboard and mouse interface for most operations?
Yes - Hotkeys also available for keyboard intensive operations such as schedule entry and pricing
32. Can a client's description have an internal pricing description?
Yes - Schedule accommodates both client descriptions and internal pricing descriptions >>>
33. Is there a facility to input the schedule in a foreign language?
Yes - provided the character set conforms the ANSI standard.
34. Spell checking of the schedule?
No
Take off from drawings to create schedule of quantities
35. Can I enter details of dimension positions?
Yes - Remarks and location codes available against measurement fragments
36. What about entry of actual dimensions to calculate quantity?
Yes - Pre-defined dimension columns and quantity formula fields in Take-off module and specialised Quantity Calculation Sheets for individual schedule items >>>
37. Are the dimension totals visible on screen?
Yes - in our Take-off module, Bill Writer module, quantity-calculation sheets and on the schedule itself
38. Can I use a digitiser to input dimensions from drawings?
No
39. Is there a printout of take off dimensions with totals?
Yes - Print Take-off, sections of the Take-off, Quantity Calculation sheets and selected Quantity Calculation sheets
40. Can I have a dimension sheet for each Client's schedule item?
Yes – A Quantity Calculation Sheets exists for multiple quantities per item >>>
Resource details
41. What modes of input are there for resource description, unit, cost?
Manual entry, import, copy and paste and clone
42. Is there a unique resource code for each resource?
Yes - 8 character alpha-numeric
43. Can I enter a resource without a code?
No. Candy relies heavily on resource codes.
44. Is there a facility to group or summarise resources into buying or cost codes?
Yes - Various methods and specialised summary codes available
45. Is there a facility to view resource group totals on screen?
Yes - "Group-by" specified code with totals >>>
46. Is there a facility to group resources into categories of production such as skilled man-hours?
Yes - User-defined production codes and conversion factors. Summarise selective production codes into man-hours. Man-hours per schedule item also available >>>
47. Can I view the resource analysis on screen?
Yes - Resource usage and value by selected quantity, Resource analysis by bill item. Any report can also be previewed or spooled to screen >>>
48. What is the speed of re-calculation of resource changes?
Very fast in version 2.00. Data size and change affect dependent but up to 10 times faster than previous Candy version.
49. Can I enter new resources quickly while pricing?
Yes - Entry on resource list, duplication by code changing and cloning, specialised (subcontract adjudicator)
50. Can I enter a resource on a schedule item make-up sheet without resource list?
Yes - New resources can be created on the schedule item make up sheet (Worksheet) directly or existing resources can be edited directly while on the make-up sheet >>>
51. Can I create and view Sets (composite complex or teams of resources)?
Yes, 9 levels of Complex resource are available. Complexes easily created by drag and drop, copying and cloning. On screen "drill-down" of complex resources and specialised Complex resource reports >>>
52. Can I annotation the Sets (composite resource) calculation?
Yes - Complex resource worksheet detail can be annotated on the worksheet, per worksheet line or using a resource remark on the resource list >>>
53. Is their flexibility in the resource build-up calculations?
Yes - Rate modifications such as currency exchange rates, tax multipliers, discounts and surcharges exist for simple resources. Free format worksheets allow flexibility in calculation and documentation of complex resources.