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https://www.alliedbuildings.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/logo.png TECHNOLOGY BRIEF
31 March, 2025
HERE'S WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING
✅All the tickets! 🍪🍪🍪 As we end the first quarter of 2025, well over 200 tickets have been closed out and there's no sign of slowing down. Read this month's 80+ releases in our extended brief.

✅ Gantt get enough. User testing is in full swing as our early adopters have been testing the new semi-automated Gantt view of the project schedule. Your feedback is vital, share it here.

✅ Capacity calculator. With the help of project ops, we now have built-in visibility of existing and forecasted PM and PM Support capacity. Engineering and Logistics coming next. See it in action.

📣 DMS Workshop and Rollout ⚡ Our cloud-based Document Management platform (DMS) is live. We will hold the first training workshop for our early adopters in the coming days.

Did you know... We offer weekly one-on-one MBS support for all those who attend the MBS Help Desk through Allied University. Join us this Thurday, 3 April @ 3:30PM EST.
MBS Version 7.2 is Live - Released on Wednesday, 26 March. Join us on Thursday's Allied U as we go in depth on the new features.
✅ A360 - T786 - add ‘closing date’ from potential record
✅ A360 - T133 - add ‘primary/secondary factory’
✅ A360 - T793 - change text on CO pop-up
✅ A360 - T819 - remove ‘delivering in 2024?’ field
✅ A360 - T833 - copy all fields from ‘building’ tab if not completed
✅ RCF - T750 - show 6 vs 12 months
✅ RCF - T799 - legend, light blue when status = sent
✅ RCF - T822 - scrollbar too narrow, display above fold
✅ RCF - T838 - bug, breakpoint display removal
✅ ACV - T722 - display total starting budget
✅ ACV - T753 - move ‘vendor’, hide PO#
✅ ACV - T770 - editable line items w/in prod categories
✅ ACV - T772 - Add btn ‘to-be-booked’
✅ ACV - T775 - add field ‘load start date’
✅ ACV - T807 - gross margin, expand to two decimal places
✅ ACV - T808 - format currency
✅ ACV - T809 - graph, scroll or click for related data
✅ ACV - T812 - show weight for product categories
✅ ACV - T825 - prod groups, display ‘estimated cost/weight’
✅ ACV - T832 - bug, alignment
✅ ACV - T847 - format weight with commas
✅ VPS - T754 - change to confirmation alert
✅ CRM - T745 - automation function update
✅ CRM - T844 - new PO function btn function
✅ Schedule - T736 - gantt chart mode
✅ Schedule - T816 - remove refresh option after saving
✅ Schedule - T818 - fields not mapping dates from CRM
✅ Schedule - T836 - bug, VPS automation not functional
✅ Gantt - T737 - save date change
✅ Gantt - T757 - display ‘end date’
✅ Gantt - T811 - bug, dates changed that should not
✅ Gantt - T826 - bug, ability to add dates to null dates
✅ Gantt - T828 - refreshing to top of page after drag event
✅ Gantt - T841 - format date for start/ending MM/DD/YYYY
✅ Gantt - T851 - hide supplier/client header info
✅ Gantt - T856 - bug, unable to delete custom tasks
✅ Gantt - T866 - move title description location
✅ POs - T763 - auto update PO status w/freight status
✅ POs - T792 - bug, non-empty weight
✅ POs - T796 - rename ‘loading date’ to ‘estimated load date’
✅ POs - T834 - add ‘co.sales order’ lookup field
✅ Freight - T762 - logistics coordinator mapping
✅ Freight - T790 - bug, cancel btn not functional
✅ Freight - T805 - add ‘in transit’ tab filter
✅ Freight - T806 - bug, in full view not all records shown
✅ Freight - T813 - show related POs as you type
✅ Freight - T815 - allow mass delete
✅ Freight - T817 - add ‘pick up date’ to list view
✅ Freight - T823 - add ‘actual delivery date’ and ‘estimated delivery date’
✅ RFIs - T670 - V2 upgrades
✅ RFIs - T800 - email notifications
✅ RFIs - T831 - reminder emails
✅ RFIs - T839 - ability to delete questions
✅ RFIs - T840 - response emails
✅ RFIs - T845 & T859 - respondee landing page edits
✅ RFIs - T860 - remove ‘re-assignment’ from landing page
✅ DMS - T545 - library services
✅ DMS - T578 - user access management
✅ DMS - T683 - UX layers applied
✅ DMS - T695 - file access and handling basics
✅ DMS - T740 - multiple file sharing
✅ DMS - T755 - user profile view
✅ DMS - T789 - wide view, login page
✅ Capacity Calculator - T766 - create DB table
✅ MBS - Reading Tekla versions
✅ MBS - Readme - format changes
✅ MBS - Reaction increase set to default
✅ MBS - Cold form weights in MBS
✅ MBS - Deflection change
✅ MBS - Proposal - Approval / Production
✅ MBS - Proposal - T&C’s
✅ MBS - Proposal - “Good for” note
✅ MBS - Proposal - Payment terms
✅ MBS - Proposal - Girt/Purlin connection
✅ Master Builder - overhang + liner panels released to UAT
✅ Master Builder - steel price increase UI and language added
WHAT’S COMING NEXT
Commission calulator and scheduling. Sales reps, do you want to know how much and when you will be getting paid? Thought so! This new feature will be private visibility, just for you.

Testing. Testing. Testing. 🧪 As development concludes on several big initatives, user testing begins. Early adopters from varying departments are vetting before we releasing company-wide. Interested? Get in touch to be included.

Engineering review process. 📝 With release of the new, robust RFI module in A360, we will start to outline how to include the engineering review process, as well.

Have an idea you'd like to share? Great, post it here. Our tools are only as good as the feedback we receive.

Find a bug? Report it right away here.
Builder - Expanded opening placement options  Expected end of APRIL 
Builder - Adding soffit options
Builder - New overhang options  Expected APR 11 
DMS - Annoation/markup of DWG files  Expected APR 15 
DMS - Annotation-to-RFI automation feature  Expected end of APR 
DMS - Mapping of emails-to-files and vice versa
RFIs - auto convert an RFI to a change order  Expected APR 15 
RESOURCES
Submit a new feature request
Report a bug
Feb, 2025
December, 2024