Don’t Get Caught Out -Run the Project Check-Up Tool

From time to time our RFMS Australasia support team will receive a call from a panicked Measure user where the conversation goes something like this, “the installer has phoned from the job to say that he has laid all the carpet and he is half the lounge short!” 

In such a situation the horse has clearly bolted, something went wrong leading to an inaccurate quantifying of the material needed for the job. Now the ramifications have to be dealt with. How to placate the frustrated customers who have visitors coming for that family wedding on the weekend? Where to find more carpet of the same style and dye batch? How to break this news to the financial controller?

The support person will ask the Measure user to save a copy of the project to the Cloud storage that comes with the Measure license; this enables the project to be opened by support. After they access the project they will run the Check-Up tool. If any allocation issues have been created because of the way the project was drawn up they will almost inevitably be highlighted by running this tool and at the same time a ‘fix’ will be provided for each error found.

The Check-Up tool is located in the ‘project’ section of the ‘Tools’ tab. It also runs in the background when the ‘Work-Sheet’ is opened. If any issues are detected the pop-up box will appear, which is why we recommend that the ‘Work-Sheet’ is visited before a project is finalised.

While the above ‘white knuckle’ scenario is not common, it does happen. This tells us at RFMS Australasia that some users may never visit the Work-Sheet during the course of their project. This is likely because their focus is on the installation documents that tell them how much material they need. If this describes your workflow make a change so you are not caught out in the future – either visit the ‘Work-Sheet’ to check the valuable information found there or make a conscious decision to run the Check-Up tool before you finalise each project.