Sage Construction & Real Estate

My database that was setup when I bought the system had the pricing in units, an earlier question on here was answered by the Gary gentleman that seems to answer most of these. I tried to create a new database so I could select the crew pricing in hours…

Good day everyone Can someone please tell me the best way to archive estimating files, and store them on the hard drive to maybe retrieve later. I am thinking of storing the estimate by year and of course the Database would have to be store also.…

Hello everyone, I am trying to import items into a database. I have exported them into a CSV file within Sage Estimating, but I can not find out where you can import them. I was trying to merge 2 databases with the database editor, but they have different…

Is it possible to import a tszip file into Sage Estimating?

Intermittently, when I'm Saving or Printing a Change Order and I have "Revise contract amount" checked, the contract amount will not revise to match the Change Order in Contracts/Job Costs. If I was to use Sage Estimating to modify an estimate and select…

Can anyone tell us if they have experience exporting and importing their database?

I'm working alongside a freelance estimator who's working on a portion of the project from a remote location. His version of Sage is one version older than the one in our server. Would it be possible to merge both estimates into one? If so, how…

Good Day Can anyone tell me why in Sage Data Base editor there a green check mark beside the database file, see below. And how do we remove it ? Using SQL 21.1 Thank you for any answer

A general and important question When you insert a item into the estimate from the database the change date is the current date. What I want to know can a column for the data base change date be visible in the estimate file. This would make it easier…

I'm noticing that when I go back to certain takeoffs in estimating that the bid item's data will be deleted even after saving... why?? I go back to an estimate, expecting to see the final bid amount, but often it is lower than what I remember. When…

When we go back to take-offs, our bid items were deleted. This has begun recently with no change in personnel access and already running the current version of Sage. Any suggestions?

We have been using Timberline (SAGE) Estimating since 1993 (dos version) when the .dat files and the estimates had to live in the same database. Now, in windows, the estimates and the data files do not need to live in the same database AND backups can…

Can anyone tell me why some some material prices in the database editor are displayed in red?

I have 14 material items that are linked together. Is there a way to unlink all items in this group that does not require editing each one?

Error retrieving data for an estimate. Error: "Error Staging Data No data was returned by Sage Estimating. This could be caused if the estimate you selected is currently open (locked) in Sage Estimating. Close the estimate and then try again…

Error retrieving data for an estimate. Error: "Error Staging Data No data was returned by Sage Estimating. This could be caused if the estimate you selected is currently open (locked) in Sage Estimating. Close the estimate and then try again…

We have a legacy standard database that is set as a 3 digit phase code suffix, example 03000.000. We would like to convert it to a 2 digit suffix, example: 030000.00. I tried to merge a 2 digit and 3 digit but the merge routine rejected the operation;…

Our environment is set without a server, except the DB that is on centralize DB server and a licence server. Applications are installed on workstation of users and they rely on DB server and license server. I try to do backup with Management Console…

The user recently started receiving an error when accessing the CSI Division/Job cost code phase section in Sage Estimating. A prompt will come up for the users credentials, after entered the error titled "Job Cost File Access" displays stating "Unable…

We are a custom homebuilder. I have multiple base house plan estimate takeoff files with roughly 300 items in each. I'd like to load them into base estimate templates in SQL estimating with an easier method than just doing an item takeoff manually if…

I have updated few "JC phase" items in the estimate and then tried to update these item in "DATA Base" with utilizing " I have gone through all steps from inserting "Update DB" col and check make the items and also followed all steps after. …

I have a field that I'd like to generate in Sage that is based on other manually entered values in Sage WBS codes. I could do this in excel utilizing a concatenate function, but I'd like to do it all in one place, if possible. Does anyone know if it's…

I am building new crew rate tables and desire to create individual adders to each labor rate, currently I have 20 plus added columns that are driven from the base rate. I am curious is there any way to download these columns of cost into the job cost…

Hello, I am writing to see if anyone knows if Sage Estimating data items can be exported to a lumber yard/building material supplier point of sale system (POS)? In particular I'm looki got communicate with the Falcon POS system (release 20.07.001)?…

Hey, Where can i get a DB Schema for Estimating? Support doesn't offer one, which is crazy. I'm trying to track down what fields are where so we can do some analytics of the data. Thanks,