a colleague has said "This is disappointing. Was really wanting this to be a copy and not have to have it created twice with the same linked information."
Lynda Scorgie
| Company | CALA Homes North |
| Job Title / Role | Administrator |
| I need it... | Yesterday...Come on already |
Dear Viewpoint Suggestion Box contributor;
We at Viewpoint sincerely thank you for your contribution to Suggestion Box on how we can improve Viewpoint products. While we can’t do everything at once, we rely upon your feedback to help guide the prioritization of our product improvements, and Suggestion Box is a critical tool for us to understand and prioritize our customers’ needs.
Viewpoint reviews Suggestion Box regularly for all of our products and updates statuses, adds comments, and performs various house-keeping (including deleting) as needed to ensure that Suggestion Box is maintained as a productive environment for product enhancements requests.
© 2023 Trimble Inc. All Rights Reserved. Viewpoint®, Vista™, Spectrum®, ProContractor™, Jobpac Connect™, Viewpoint Team™, Viewpoint Analytics™, Viewpoint Field View™, Viewpoint Estimating™, Viewpoint For Projects™, Viewpoint HR Management™, Viewpoint Field Management™, Viewpoint Financial Controls™, Vista Field Service™, Spectrum Service Tech™, ViewpointOne™, ProjectSight® and Trimble Construction One™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Trimble Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
I disagree - this should be prevented. In fact, it should be less easy to create copies of things in VP, and if VP senses a file that is being uploaded has been uploaded before as a registered document, it should offer to create a link to the existing document instead of uploading the copy.
What's being suggested is very bad practice.
There are other solutions for every reason why you would want to do this:
To create a static copy of a tender package - use a Static Virtual Container
To use as templates - these should reside on your local system and you only upload them to VP when filled out/customised for their current use
As a 'package' - a 'Parent' document entry could be created that has all the 'Child' constituent documents set as links or attachments.
I constantly struggle with people uploading copies of documents to multiple containers because they have different ideas of where they should go, and then create links to SVCs and DVCs that point to a mixture of the two copies.