Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Staff Web Page Noodling

I messed around with the various Building pages in the Staff Web site trying to get things more interlinked so that it would be even easier to use for inspectors in the field. So now a list of Pending Inspections shows every time you go to a Property record and then to its corresponding Building Results page. I also added a mapping option directly on the Inspections page so that you can get that info even if you bypass the Property page. I made a few other minor changes all with the intent of making it easier to navigate around and get to important information a variety of ways.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Fee Details in Fee Collection Report

Several of my Building Module customers told me that they submit a daily account report to their county showing all the fees collected. In coaching them through the process I always had to advise running two reports: one from the Fee Collection Report Screen for all the non-building fees, and one from the Building Fee Detail Report Screen for the building fees. This always appears confusing at first because the Fee Collection Report Screen does have the building databases listed on it. The problem is that it pulled only the fee total for each permit, not the individual fee details that make up the total. And when you want to break down the report by Account numbers, it is the individual fee details that matter for the building records. I have just posted an update to the Fee Collection Report Screen that solves this problem. There is a new check-box on that screen that allows you to pull Building Fee Details instead of totals for any given report. This means that you can produce one report that will sort by Account number all of the fees collected during the day (or any period). The download is available now through the Installed Modules Screen.