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CHANGE REQUEST DESCRIPTION EXPLANATION REQUESTOR CONTROL # ACTION

REFERENCE REPORT MODIFICATION Modify the Reference Verification Report by reporting the Unresolved References and Unused References on one report. Add separate reports for Duplicate References and Title Discrepancies.

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON

AIR FORCE 001008 ACCEPTED

Board Reviewed Requirement Analysis

07/18/2000 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments 32-Bit Application


PRINT ENHANCEMENT - DOUBLE LINES Under the Print Options add the capability to print lines double spaced.

MARTHA MULLER

P-NASA 001011 ACCEPTED


07/18/2000 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


MODIFY SI3 BROWSE LIST Modify the SpecsIntact browse boxes to display the directory structure as in Windows Explorer

PATRICIA ROBINSON

P-NASA 01-023 ACCEPTED


05/02/2001

SI Recommendation

Board Comments

STATUS AS OF 02/06/2012 SI-CCCB MEETING Printed: Feb 06, 2012 at 2:04:34PM of 27



HEADER ON A RENAMED JOB Renaming a job indicates starting a new or different job, as opposed to duplicating a job which most likely implies a variation or modification of a job that will basically remain the same.

JOE LOONEY

NAVY 01-041 ACCEPTED


11/14/2001

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


ENHANCEMENT FOR BACKUP/RESTORE/MANAGE FEATURE

Add capability to SpecsIntact 3 to be able to backup SI Other Documents.

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON

AIR FORCE 01-051 ACCEPTED


06/13/2002

SI Recommendation

11/14/01 - Deferred for further investigation. 06/13/02 - Request was reviewed at the SI-CCCB meeting and it was accepted.

Board Comments


COMBINE STOC WITH PDF FILES MODIFICATION

When creating PDF files for a job, under "Process and Print" in the "Report" tab, the "Combine Sections and Section Tables of Contents" box is checked and is rendered unchangeable. This adds the TOC to each page, this causes the page numbering to be off.

NEIL ANDERSON

ARMY 01-052 ACCEPTED


06/13/2002

SI Recommendation

06/13/02 - Change Request was deferred and reviewed at the SI-CCCB meeting. It was accepted to enable the options in PDF that are currently available for the printed hard copy.

Board Comments




AUTOMATIC SUBMITTAL ARTICLE / REGISTER GENERATION

Have SPECSINTACT generate the SUBMITTALS paragraph (as well as the SUBMITTAL REGISTER).

JOE LOONEY



06/13/2002

SI Recommendation

Board Comments 06/13/02 - Low Priority


AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF REFERENCE ARTICLE FOR JOBS and MASTERS

Add new feature to Process \ Reference Processing for Job \ Reconciliation to "Update Reference Articles"

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON



11/21/2002

SI Recommendation

Deferred for further consideration

April 21 2011- The board likes the benefit of pulling from the supplemental also.

Board Comments


PRINTING REPORT NOT SELECTED When Processing & Printing a job with the reconciliation process and no reports have been selected in the print dialog box, the Verification Reports are printed anyway.

JOE LOONEY



11/21/2002

SI Recommendation

Board Comments A report should be generated to let the user decided whether or not they would like to make the necessary corrections.




Re-Order Reference List When processing and re-generating new Reference Articles in the Sections sort the Reference IDs by Alphabetic order according to the Acronym but also by numeric order. This is the way the References are typically ordered in the Sections.

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON



11/21/2002

SI Recommendation

Board Comments This would be a good feature, but not a high priority.


MOVING THE CHANGE REQUEST FORM LOCATION

Keep all of the Change Request Forms in one locations, instead of in the current working directories.

JED DIXON

P-ARMY 02-036 ACCEPTED


11/21/2002

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


MOVE THE TEMPLATES INTO ONE LOCATION

Create a new directory to hold of the templates in one location

JED DIXON



11/21/2002

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




MODIFICATION TO PROPERITIES SCHEDULE TAB - REVIEW STATUS

Recommend changing the Percentage field from a radio button selection to one that can be filled in by the user.

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON



07/23/2003

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Start out at level (blank) instead of A, do not supply a default value, and check for any blank levels when saving.


SUBMITTAL REGISTER XXXX4288.TXT FILE

Change the UFGS submittal register filename to "UFGS4288.txt".

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON



07/23/2003

SI Recommendation

Suggested name subreg.txt

April 21, 2011- Board commented to change the name to SISubreg.text

Board Comments


CHANGE TAGS TO REPRESENT FUNCTION

Having each characteristic with an HL tag it is very confusing to the customer, rename to Und, Itl, Bld, and Ctr. CHERYL MANSFIELD



02/04/2004

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




CUSTOMIZE TAGS BAR ENHANCEMENT Suggest changing the Customize Tags Bar interface to a List in which you can make multiple selections of buttons at one time. CHERYL FITZ-SIMON



02/04/2004

SI Recommendation

11/1/07: Upon review of this Change Request, it was agreed to add two new options to the existing menu rather than making major modifications. 1. Add All 2. Defaults

Board Comments


AUTOMATICALLY CHECK TYPED RIDS AND AUTOMATE ADDRESS SECTION UPDATING

We need to automatically Check References when RIDs are keyed in manually. We also need to automate updating of the 01 42 00 Address Section. JIM WHITEHEAD



02/04/2004

SI Recommendation Generated and approved as written at SI-CCCB meeting, February, 2004.

April 21, 2011 Sheron- Also be able to update just the 01 42 00.Board Comments


NEED MORE CONSISTENT "MOUSE-OVER HELP" IN SI

Add additional mouse over help tips through out the application

KEN TICHY



07/20/2004

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Make low priority




MAINTAIN CONCURRENY WITH ADOBE ACROBAT

Require current (latest) version of Adobe Acrobat to evaluate that it is properly operating with SpecsIntact when publishing to PDF. PATRICIA ROBINSON



07/20/2004

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


ADJUST THE ADD SECTIONS DIALOG BOX

For the Add Sections dialog, make the dialog box much wider so that the entire title of the section can be read without having to resort to the horizontal scroll bar. JOE HUESMANN



07/20/2004

SI Recommendation

Board Comments This should be a low priority


Place Brackets Around Inserted Items Place brackets around the inserted items that need to be replaced so we can use the Bracket Replacement Wizard to select them for replacement.1.1.1 [Sub Title] [Text] STEVEN FREITAS



05/04/2006

SI Recommendation Steve would like this implemented for ALL tags for which we insert any dummy text (PRT, SPT, TBL, etc.)

Board Comments




Show Revision when Using Rename Section Right now the only way you can show revisions when renaming a section is by editing the section manually.

MARTHA MULLER



11/02/2006

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Add Comments To The Section Properties Add the capability to allow comments to be retained in the Section Properties dialog box.

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON



11/02/2006

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Save Tailoring Options SpecsIntact doesn't save tailoring options that have been deselected on the job. When sections are overwritten or when other sections are added with the same tailoring options, the users may not choose the same options for the later sections as selected on the earlier sections.

STEVEN FREITAS

ARMY 06-020 REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS


11/02/2006

SI Recommendation This was a result of the UFGS working group meeting held on Oct 31 and Nov 1, 2006

Board Comments




Add New Column to the Front End Modify the column headers to add a column to the font end of SpecsIntact that allows the user to enter free text

PETER SMITH



05/01/2007

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


SI EXPLORER - "DRAG AND DROP" I want to request the ability to "drag and drop" .sec files to the desktop (and maybe to/from Windows Explorer) directly out of SI. RICHARD (RICK)

HATCHER



11/01/2007 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Make Processed Files "Read Only" Make the Processed files Read-Only so that no changes can be made to them to avoid confusion.

MICHELLE PIZZUTO

OTHER 07-010 ACCEPTED


11/01/2007 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Give users the option to override this option




Add An Option to Remove Footer from the TOC

There is no option to remove the Footer on the TOC.

STEVE PRICE



11/01/2007 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


METRIC AND ENGLISH UNITS I would like to see a routine that would delete whichever units I am not using and getting rid of the tags for the units I am using. That would make editing easier and get rid of those continuing issues with spacing that are hard to see while editing with tags showing.

RAY DUNCAN



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Jim Whitehead to call Ray Duncan to discuss implentation and ideas for this CR. The board likes Jim's idea to to hide transparent tags.


Search for Tags Only With Specified Attributes

A new feature in SI Editor to be able to search for tags that contain specific attributes would be helpful.

JIM WHITEHEAD



04/02/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Change Tag color to Gray. If color was a lighter gray color, keeping on all the time would "fade" them into the background..

ALICE BUTLER



04/02/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Change was Accepted with the option to toggle between gray and black, with gray as the default.


Allow Addtional PDF Writers to be Recognized

Currently SpecsIntact's Publish to PDF feature is only supported when using Adobe PDF. The submitter is asking for the software to allow other PDF sources to be able to function with SpecsIntact.

BRYAN UNGER



11/03/2011 APPROVED

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Prevent Automatic Scrolling When Undeleting Redline Revisions

When undeleting a redline revision, that is at the top of the screen, it appears to the bottom of the screen after the undelete is done. It is recommended to not have the document scroll.

BRYAN UNGER



04/02/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Make the Cover Page Options on Job Properties Tab More User Friendly

Currently the Options on the Job Properties Tab for the Cover Page can be somewhat confusing.

MICHELLE PIZZUTO



04/02/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Approved to be worked with CR 08-009


Add "Location" to the Variable List under Header/Footer

Add the "Location" field as a variable that can be added to headers/footers at the Print Processing Header/Footer tab. DAVID FULKS



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Allow for Section Specifiers Add fields for Section Specifier.

DAVID FULKS



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board recommends to add this to the Job Properties Report when it prints.




Add Item and List Indent Buttons to the Editor Toolbar

Add Item and List Indent Buttons to the Editor toolbar.

ANN SHOTWELL



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


SECTION TITLE AS A HEADER/FOOTER VARIABLE

Add the Section Title to the List of Variables on the Header/Footer tab of the Process/Print/Publish dialog box. MIKE CASEY



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board considers this a low priority.


Allow for Removed Tailoring Options to Be Redlined

Allow removed Tailoring Options to be redlined instead of just deleted.

CHRIS GRIMM



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments April 21, 2011- Board recommends to review this with multilevel lists and Auto Paragraph numbering.




Add a To-Do List Feature Consider adding a to-do list, that is linked to a Subpart in a Section. Where an Engineer can mark the Subpart to be looked at a later time. Create a report which lists this "to-do" tags and like current reports, double clicking on the report would return you to the Section.

KEVIN DECKER



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board recommends a feature to toggle the view both when printing and editing.


Create Validation Log when Number of Characters are Exceeded in a Tag

Create a Validation Log, when characters in a tag exceed the allowed number.

CHRIS GRIMM



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board also recommends reducing the number of Characters in the <SUB> tags to 100.


Create a Redesigned Version of SpecsIntact Create a WEb Based Version of SpecsIntact

PATRICIA ROBINSON



11/03/2011 APPROVED

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Submittal Wizard Tagging submittals is tricky, and SpecsIntact does not readily assist users in standardizing identical submittal items in different Sections. JIM WHITEHEAD



11/03/2011 APPROVED

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board recommends when adding a Submittal to the Section, have the Submittal Wizard prompt the user to add it to the Submittal Article. Also to allow a choice to add the Submittal Item to multiple SDs. Update the Submittal list that the wizard uses, with each Master release. Create extra tags for each current function of the <SUB> tag.


Saved User Defined Default Fonts If a user needs to change fonts to fulfill a RFP requirement they must then remember to change their settings when they updated Software. CHRIS GRIMM



11/05/2009

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board recommends as a low priority.


Integrate BIM Data Into SpecsIntact We need to develop a method to incorporate BIM data into SpecsIntact. We can Extract BIM data from drawings as tailoring options data. We can use Pivot Tables to develop-unique Pull Table list of Specification sections-associated list of tailoring options.

STEVEN FREITAS

ARMY 09-024 DEFERRED


11/03/2011 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board would like the results of the Requirements Analysis before the CSI Construct 2010 conference.




Insert Blank Page at the End of a Section that Doesn't end on an Even Page

To print in true book form when printing the entire Job a blank page should be inserted at the end of any Section ending on an odd page. ADAM WEST



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Insert or Delete Multiple Rows in a Formatted Table

Allow multiple rows to be added or deleted

SHERON BELCHER



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


New Report: Correcting Duplicate Submittal Items

Create a report which would list Duplicate Submittals Items.

KRISTI SCHRAGL



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Create a standard warning on when to fix these items.




Include the Submittal Register when Combining Section Files in single PDF

Include the Submittal Register when Combining Section Files in single PDF

JOHN STICKNEY



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Work on this when SI implements it's own PDF capability.


Hyperlink from RIDs to the Reference on MADCAD or IHS web site

It would be helpful to provide a hyperlink from RIDs to the reference publication on the web site of MADCAD or IHS. JIM WHITEHEAD



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

The board accepted this with the condition to Hyperlink the Organization in the UMRL so that it automatically pulls over when the Master Text preparers build the Reference Article.

Board Comments


Authorize SI to Discontinue Support for Third Party Software When Vendor Does

We need to be able to discontinue support for third party software when the software vendor does. We also need the flexibility to extend our support for some time beyond the date the vendor discontinues support if it makes sense for our customers.

JIM WHITEHEAD



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Create a Hot Key to Insert the Last Tag Inserted

Create a Hot Key to Insert the Last Tag Inserted

CHRISTOPHER FUGITT

P-NAVY 10-008 ACCEPTED


10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Back Button on Mouse Enabled for Reference Wizard

Allow a mouse enabled with a back button to return the Reference Wizard to the initial list of Organizations.

CHRISTOPHER FUGITT



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Low Priority


Make the Parts of a Section Collapsible and Expandable

It would be nice if you could collapse the parts of a section so you wouldn't have to scroll through them to get to something further down. KELLY MACCARONE



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board accepted this as the proposed Outline view.




Make the Search Feature in the Editor, Populate with the Recent Explorer Search Term

Enable the Editor to pick up the last search term used in the Explorer.

KELLY MACCARONE



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Integrate SpecsIntact into REVIT and BENTLEY

Create a Widget that will integrate directly into the BIM program's current interface that will allow Specifications to be pulled into a current Job, or to allow a Job to be created and the Sections then be pulled in based on properties attributed to BIM objects.

THOMAS HINSHAW

NASA 10-013 DEFERRED


11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Create a Keyboard Shortcut to Change the Focus from the Left to Right panes of SpecsIntact Windows

Create a keyboard shortcut that would change the focus from the left to right side of the window, both in SI Editor Windows and the SI Front End CHRISTOPHER FUGITT



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Multi-Level List Structure Currently to abide by the UFC 1-300-02 a specification preparer must use a combination of <LST> and <ITM> tags which do not always provide the correct formatting. The text does not correctly word wrap with a hanging indent, the user must manually create the indents which creates an esthetically unpleasing format.

MARTHA MULLER



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The change was accepted to use existing tags.


Allow Options for Front End Searches When searching the Front End for a Search Term, the search results often populate with Sections in which the Search Term is only in the Notes or the Redlined Area. Add checkboxes in which the user can choose to search Notes and/or Redlines.

MICHELLE PIZZUTO



10/28/2010

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Provide Direct Link to CCR System for Individual Section

Need a SpecsIntact menu item that links directly to the CCR system for a given Section.

JIM WHITEHEAD



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Add Option to Ignore Tags When Searching in the SI Editor

Allow users to specify whether to ignore tags while searching in the SI Editor.

JIM WHITEHEAD



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board recommends the default option be checked to ignore tags when using find.


Allow Multiple Actions While Text is Highlighted

Allow Multiple Actions While text is Highlighted

KELLY MACCARONE



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Add Preparing Activity to Tailoring Options Printed List

Currently the Tailoring Options list just lists, the Section number, the Tailoring Options and the number of occurances in the Section. It was suggested to have the Preparing Activity listed on the printout also.

MICHELLE PIZZUTO



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Option to Bookmark a Section and it's TOC Together in the Publish.pdf

Currently if you Publish with bookmarks an entire Job to PDF including the Section Table of Contents for each Section, you get a bookmarks for both the Section and the STOC.

Create an option to have the Section (including the

ANN SHOTWELL



11/03/2011

STOC) bookmarked only once.SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board recommends the default be to combine the Section and Section TOC.


Provide QA Reports for Tailoring Need QA reports for Tailoring.

BELA GUTMAN



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Create SpecsIntact MSI (Silent Install) Create a MSI file so companies can automatically push SpecsIntact.

PAUL ROTH



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Create an Exports Folder Under the Job in SpecsIntact

Currently when your create an Exported Submittal Register or Exported List of Tailoring Options, you must go to the Exports folder under the Job in your Working Directory. Alice suggests having a folder under the Job for Exports, just as we do for Word and PDF.

ALICE BUTLER



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Make the Division 00 Footer and Title Agree Currently any Section in Division 00 is hard coded to Print with "Document" in the footer, not Section. However the title still says "Section". Robert suggests to make both in agreement.

ROBERT STEELE



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments The board recommends the Master Text Preparers to change the "Section" to Document in the text.


Use User Preferences When Opening a Section from a Report

Currently if you open a Report and double click an error, thus bringing you back to the Section with the error. It does not keep your user preference of having your Tags and Revisions showing. It DOES keep these preferences in the Validation Report, but not the error reports. The suggestion is to keep the user preferences when linking

TERRY VITT



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation to the Section.

Board Comments




Search and Replace Functions for Tags Cannot search and replace tags.

STEVEN FREITAS



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Modify the Add Section Templates dialog box Currently, only the section number is required when adding a section template to a job, The user then should open the section properties to change the section title and scope statement. Unfortunately most do not use the section properties, but just edit the name directly in the editor.

STEVEN FREITAS



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Keep Text Together or With Next Create a tag to keep text together.

STEVEN FREITAS



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Add-Manage Attachments with a Project Create a location that hold all the attachments in the Job.

STEVEN FREITAS



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


Display Formatted Tables without Tags Formatted table cells are often not large enough to display both their content and any tags that might be inside the cells. It would be better to always hide SI tags in formatted tables except while editing a table cell.

JIM WHITEHEAD



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments Approved for high priority release for 4.5.1


Formatted Table Alignment with Alphanumeric Paragraph Numbering

CHERYL FITZ-SIMON



11/03/2011

SI Recommendation

Board Comments




Support CAD LINK Provide the capability within SPECSINTACT to link the specifications to CAD.

GARY COLEHAMER

961011 ACCEPTED


10/24/1996 N/A

SI Recommendation 07/18/00 - Scope of project narrowed by board action 12/99, some portions Deferred.

Implement for both CAD and Intergraph

11/1/07 The SI-CCCB Memebers recommend changing the title of this CR from "Link CAD and SpecsIntact" to Support CAD Link"

Board Comments


PRINT SELECTED XML TAGS IN MASTER SECTION

For tags such as MET and ENG, it is necessary to be able to print a Master Section for updating with selected tags. It is confusing to print with all tags, and at present you get all or none.

JOE LOONEY

NAVY 971008 PARTIALLY ACCEPTED


11/17/1998 N/A

SI Recommendation

A prototype will be presented at the next board meeting. Prototype demonstrated at April 1997 meeting and Board rejected it. 11/17/98 - Re-opened and took it back to the Board for re-consideration due to numerous user requests for it.

April 21, 2011 - The board recommends to incorporate with a condensed list of tags.

Board Comments


PROVIDE AUTOMATIC RE-LETTERING Add an enhancement to automatically re-letter a, b, c's.....

GLENN KATO

ARMY 981008 ACCEPTED


11/17/1998 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments 11/17/98 - Army did not concur.




ABILITY TO GET TOTAL PAGE COUNT PER SECTION/PROJECT

Restore function from the DOS Version that allowed the users to choose Jobs / Print Options to generate the # of pages per section, # of pages for STOC and PTOC, and the Total # pages for the project.

MARTHA MULLER



11/21/2002 N/A

SI Recommendation

Deferred until the next SI-CCB Meeting.

Re presented at the November 21, 2002 meeting for the board. The board approved this change request with a low priority.

Board Comments


AUTOMATIC GENERATION SUBMITTAL REGISTER

Give option to the users to stop processing the Submittal Register if errors are found on the Submittal Verification Report. MARTHA MULLER



12/07/1999

SI Recommendation

Board Comments


MODIFY PRINT PROCESS FOR THE SUBMITTAL VERIFICATION REPORT

Instead of automatically printing the Submittal Verification Report w/the Submittal Register, give us the choice during processing to print just the Submittal Register.

KARENA SAMUEL

ARMY 991013 ACCEPTED


12/07/1999 N/A

SI Recommendation

Board Comments
