@Ben Baxter and @Steven Chinsky - This is a great list. I think jobs is so rarely talked about that its sometimes difficult to know what addons are out there and might be good. The base functionality is underused, as well. -- Amanda Mayer NAVUG All Star --
Amanda, I will say DITTO to what Ben wrote. I have used Cost Control and To-Increase, in the overall section. I am in the process of using Insight Works for time collection, but in a Manufacturing space. I have also used Netronic in the past. Thanks, Steve -- Steven Chinsky Manager Wipfli...
@Amanda Mayer , Wow, that is a tough question to answer. What might be important for one company could have no value to another. It is likely one or a combination of some of the solutions below depending on the client need. Overall Interface and Features: Cost Control - Job Manager To-Increase...
@Ben Baxter What would you say are the top 3 most common third-party apps for Jobs and what additional features (high-level) do they bring? Thanks, Amanda -- Amanda Mayer NAVUG All Star --
Thanks for that, Ben. We upgraded to BC14 last year and will definitely look at that as we migrate our code to extensions. -- Dianne Butterworth Business System Manager The King's Fund London United Kingdom --
Dianne, Your customizations sound similar to a third-party app called "Job Manager". It allows the User to save an Original Estimate, essentially taking a snapshot of the current Job either at time of Quoting or time of acceptance. They also add similar statistics breakdowns on the Job List by...
We don't use job number as a dimension, and we needed to track performance against original budget, even if, as the job progressed, values and dates changed. We asked our partner to create functionality to take a "snapshot" of job planning lines at the time the job goes into Open status. A copy...
In this particular instance we were posting (mostly) Time/Resources against the job Dimension using Timesheets, as well as any relevant invoices which were always coded against the correct Dimension, or even allocated across multiple dimensions in Journals (No inventory) Dimensions were set to...
Lukas Your initial question sparked a lot of great conversation. The Job functionality doesn't get a lot of attention, but the responses provided great information. -- Robb Delprado Senior Trainer and Consultant New View Strategies robb@newviewstrategies.com 860.558.8032 Houston, TX --
Clare, I like the use of a Global Dimension for analysis of the Job and as you stated that small modification to auto create the new Job Dimension prevents user error. Do you only post G/L Accounts to Jobs, or do you post Time and Inventory to your Jobs? And if you are only posting G/L...