Collaborate with Viewpoint and your peers by providing us with your input
Time and Material Projects often have a ceiling amount (sometimes called a "not to exceed" amount). In American Contractor that ceiling amount was specified as the contract value so AR staff knew when customer billing was approaching the T&M "not to exceed" value. ProContractor does not allow a contract value to be specified for T&M jobs. Our staff has to use "sticky notes" on their monitors to make sure the don't overbill a T&M in excess of the contract value or "not to exceed" amount. It would be great for ProContractor to have an added numeric field for T&M jobs that allows a 'not to exceed" or contract value amount to be set as the upper threshold for billing. It doesn't need to interact with anything, it just needs to replace the "sticky notes" on their monitors.
Will Woodson
Dear Viewpoint Suggestion Box contributor;
We at Viewpoint sincerely thank you for your contribution to Suggestion Box on how we can improve Viewpoint products. While we can’t do everything at once, we rely upon your feedback to help guide the prioritization of our product improvements, and Suggestion Box is a critical tool for us to understand and prioritize our customers’ needs.
Viewpoint reviews Suggestion Box regularly for all of our products and updates statuses, adds comments, and performs various house-keeping (including deleting) as needed to ensure that Suggestion Box is maintained as a productive environment for product enhancements requests.
© 2023 Trimble Inc. All Rights Reserved. Viewpoint®, Vista™, Spectrum®, ProContractor™, Jobpac Connect™, Viewpoint Team™, Viewpoint Analytics™, Viewpoint Field View™, Viewpoint Estimating™, Viewpoint For Projects™, Viewpoint HR Management™, Viewpoint Field Management™, Viewpoint Financial Controls™, Vista Field Service™, Spectrum Service Tech™, ViewpointOne™, ProjectSight® and Trimble Construction One™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Trimble Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
One problem with the user defined fields is that they cannot be edited once created or changed to inactive or deleted if once used in a report or form. Formatting then is problematic as well, we tried to change the color of the font in a field and it shows up the code in addition to the text.
This is something that we've discussed and is on our roadmap, but in the meantime you can use User Defined Fields to capture the information in-product rather than on sticky notes...