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Click Show Task Board on the left sidebar.
You can see the Task Board at the top. The table lists the tasks created for the Bimplus project, including the most important task details.
Using the Task navigator palette on the left, you can categorize the tasks, find tasks and control how the tasks are displayed in the Task Board table.
Go to the Task Board or Task navigator palette and click the task of which you want to see details.
The Details palette opens on the right.
At the same time, full view displays the view of the building model that was saved last. In addition, all required specialist models, object types and structural levels of the building structure will be loaded automatically.
Click Create task on the toolbar at the bottom.
The Details palette opens.
Click
To add comments, attachments or hyperlinks, click Adding extra information to tasks“).
Comments, Attachments or Hyperlinks respectively (see “
Click Save.
The program creates the task, saving the view set (see step 1) together with the task. The Responsible person and the persons behind Email CC addresses get emails, informing them of the new task.
Click the task you want to edit on the Task Board or in the Task navigator palette.
The Details palette opens, displaying detailed information about this task. The details you can see are the same as those in the Task Board palette in Allplan.
Click
To add or change a comment, attachment or hyperlink, click Attaching further information to tasks").
Click Save.
The Responsible person and the persons behind Email CC addresses get emails, informing them of the changes in the task.
Click the task you want to edit on the Task Board or in the Task navigator palette.
The Details palette opens.
If you want to add a comment:
Click Comment, type a comment in the text box and click Add comment.
Or:
If you want to add an attachment:
Click Attachments and then Add attachment. In the Upload file dialog box, select the file you want to add and click Open.
Or:
If you want to add a hyperlink:
Click Hyperlinks, enter the name and URL of the link and click Add hyperlink.
Click Save.
The Responsible person and the persons behind Email CC addresses get emails, informing them of the changes in the task.
Go to the Task Board or Task navigator palette and click the task for which you want to place a spot.
The Details palette opens.
Whenever you save changes in the details of a task, the program saves the view set in full view together with the task. But you can also change the view saved for a task.
Click the task on the Task Board or in the Task navigator palette.
Full view displays the view currently saved for this task.
Click Save.
The Responsible person and the persons behind Email CC addresses get emails, informing them of the changes in the task.
To communicate with your planning partners, you can directly import any task in BCF format (BIM collaboration format) or export any Bimplus task in BCF format.
Important!
The project must include the associated model with the objects described in the task. Otherwise, the program can neither use nor display BCF files correctly. Therefore, load the model into your project before you import BCF files.
Click Import BCF file to Bimplus on the toolbar of the Task Board.
The Upload file dialog box opens. Select the BCF file including the task you want to import. The extension of this file is usually *.BCFZIP.
Click Open.
This creates a new task, writing the contents of the BCF file to this task.
Select the task you want to export to a BCF file.
To do this, click the task on the Task Board or in the Task navigator palette.
Click Export task to BCF file on the toolbar of the Task Board.
The BCF created dialog box opens.
You can choose to save the file locally on your computer or to immediately send the file to the relevant persons.
Select Download or Share file respectively.
If you select the Download option:
Click the Download button and save the file to any folder.
Or:
If you select the Share file option:
Click within the Email box, select one or more recipients and click Send. The recipients get emails, informing them of the BCF file available for download on Bimplus.
It is often difficult to keep track of tasks, in particular, with a complex task list. Therefore, you can export the complete task list of a Bimplus project in Excel format.
Arrange the columns of the Task Board in the sequence in which you want to display the columns in Excel.
Sort the rows of the task list in the sequence in which you want to display the rows in Excel.
To do this, click the column header of which you want to use the contents for sorting the task list alphabetically or numerically in ascending or descending order.
Click Export task to Excel file on the toolbar of the Task Board.
Click the task you want to edit on the Task Board or in the Task navigator palette.
Click
Click Yes to confirm the prompt.