Library Overview

The job properties maintained in the library will serve as the default settings for any new estimate that is created from scratch. When creating a new job it will inherit all the job properties set in the master library.

A master set of account codes, tags, and units of measure. When a new folder is created, the master set is automatically copied from the Library to the new folder.

Used to store and maintain all information pertaining to the companies with whom you work and contact regularly (subcontractors, vendors, architects, etc.).

Stores and maintains common trench configurations that are used from project to project.

Allows you to set up shift rate configurations that you can access at the project level.

Opens the Library Resource Rate Register where you can create and edit all resources and resource cost details available for import into your projects.

For quick access to the Labor, Equipment and Materials tabs of the Master Resource Rate Register.

Takes you to the Library Resource Assembly Register where you can set up resource assemblies to import into individual projects.

Cost Item Assemblies are predictive models to quickly and accurately estimate elements of a job that can be repetitive in nature on the job or from job to job.

The Standard Tables are used to create and/or list job-level table data that is accessible by any of the Cost Item Assemblies that exist in a job. The Standard Table Record allows the user to create and or modify a Table record. The Standard Table Register lists all the job level tables created / available in the project.

Opens the Register where you assign users to a role which can include the forms, tabs and menu commands to which each role has access. The user names that are used when setting up your User Profiles come from Active Directory, and they are the user names that each user uses when logging onto his/her personal computer.

Allows you to customize your system permissions by restricting destinations or commands that only designated roles should have access to.

Opens the Library Cost Break Structure register, where you can define the CBS that will automatically import when a new project is created.

Used to roll estimate line items into an account code hierarchy and benchmark against historical projects in a way that is consistent across projects.

Opens the Library Work Breakdown Structure register, where you can define additional Work Breakdown Structures that will automatically import when a new project is created.

Opens the master Microsoft Excel template which will be embed into each new estimate job folder. The cells in the embed excel workbook can be linked to send information to or from InEight Estimate Fields.

Takes you to the Library Cost Breakdown Structure Register where you can edit and define indirect cost items.

Takes you to the Library Cost Breakdown Structure Register where you can edit the Job Financing cost item.

Takes you to the Price % Add On record, where you can define the price % add to be included in the Library CBS.

Opens to the Library Prime Bond record where you can define the bond tables that will import automatically when a new project is created. 

Window to customize the field titles that are displayed throughout various screens in the system, including all cost category titles, user-defined Tags, and more.

Allows you to save your views onto a disk or load from a disk. 

Allows you to save titles onto a disk or load from a disk. 

Allows you to save your colors onto a disk or load from a disk.

Allows you to save your output settings onto a disk or load from a disk.

Menu to not only generate reports created by Estimate, but also to open programs, folders, documents, reports, or Internet resources with the associated program.

Allows you to open programs, folders, documents, reports, or Internet resources with the associated program.

Lets you publish an estimate job to a new project. This requires the installation of the data provider plug-in.

Lets you publish cost items to an active project. This requires the installation of the data provider plug-in.