Simpson Strong-Tie’s Component Solutions® Director™ software creates an audit trail of user changes and displays this information on the History Tab for each project you are working on.
The following historical Information displays when you click the History Tab:
- Pricing (Overall cost, Plates, Labor, Lumber %, Misc –Markup/Unit Price/Unit Cost, Overall Project Markup, Bid Quantity, Production Quantity, Delivery Taxable, Component)
- Status (Delivery Task Start/Completed)
- Dates (Delivery Date)
- User who made the changes
- Certain changes made to the Project Material Catalog (coming soon in release 2025.01).
You can also manually add historical information by clicking Add History on the toolbar.
The Add History Record dialog displays.
- You can Select a Date, Employee, and Change Type
- Enter a Description of the change (notes are optional)
- Click OK to save your changes
You can also delete history changes by selecting the information you want to delete and clicking Delete History on the toolbar.
Additional benefits of the History Tab from CS Director software that help you identify the following:
- The user who made changes for a specific project
- The information that was changed
- Changed information includes job creation, pricing, task status changes and delivery date changes.
- Date the change was made
- Beginning with release 2025.1, actions in the following areas will be tracked and added to the History tab, including:
- Preset templates (Based On)
- Material catalog (Based On)
- Project mode
- Custom labor schemes
- Sales tax
- Miscellaneous Items (adding, quantity, cost, price, and markup)
- Components Tab (creating and deleting managed components, and changing components quantities)
Simpson Strong-Tie’s Component Solutions® CS Director™ software has the ability to help you view historical inputs for your projects. Contact your Simpson Strong-Tie Representative or email CSHelp@strongtie.com for more information.
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