Sage Construction & Real Estate

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.…

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…

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;…

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…

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,

We recently upgraded from Pervasive to Sage 18.11. I am trying to update and also do some improvements in our existing database(Job Cost Codes or Job Phase,NOT PRICE CODE!). There are no way to make a report for all Job Codes plus Descriptions into…

I created Crews/Resources/Rate tables etc in a template estimate that I start from in each of my estimates. The other estimators prefer the way I have set things up and management likes the way I set up the rate tables so they can easily go in and update…

Is there a way to copy a set of 100 cells (100 rows deep by 1 column wide) and paste those into excel? Right now doing it one by one and sure takes a long time..... Thank you

Aloha fellow Sage City dwellers. I've had trouble upgrading SQL databases after installing new SQL Instance for latest versions. No problem using Mgmt Console Tools to restore the backups, but Estimating locks up after failing to upgrade. Has anyone…

We installed Estimating 13.1 two weeks ago and are now experiencing some problems with the Pervasive Database Pre-Load not starting up when the computer starts. We have verified that the Pervasive Pre-Load is in the Start Menu and have done a reinstallation…