The General tab provides options for a variety of aspects of your database.
Use Enter Key to Navigate in Dialogs, Allows you to move from field to field by pressing the Enter key on your keyboard.
Lock Labor Tab from Global Changes, Prevents estimators from going to the Labor tab and entering in new labor prices that will change all the conditions in the entire bid. The Labor tab becomes a Read-Only screen.
Use Wage Type from Assemblies, The assemblies always default to their original wage types (Union, Sub, etc.) and bypass the default wage type selected at the bid Cover Sheet.
Show Text on Selected Toolbars, The Bid toolbar displays text beside each button describing its function.
Create Master Item During Bid Copying, When copying a bid from one database to another, this option will automatically add the bid’s Items to the Master Items Table of the destination database.
Filter Cost Codes by Section, Allows Cost Codes to be filtered by section.
Turn on all confirmation dialogs, A context window will appears anytime you try to perform an action that merits a confirmation. This includes deletion of bids, conditions and payroll classes.
Ask Before Updating Master Material Pricing, A context window appears asking you to decide whether the changes you made to a material price in a bid should update the Master price. Any updates to the Master will affect all future bids.
Turn on eQuotes Welcome Dialog, allows user to see the short eQuotes tutorial when they access the eQuote functionality.
Software Updates, Use this to select how often your software will automatically check for updates available for download.