Construction Base adds a small number of fields and actions to the standard Business Central Contact, Industry Group and Vendor areas: a "Blocked" indicator and attribute count on contacts, a hierarchical structure for industry groups, an attribute count on industry group assignments, and a Bill of Quantities order count on vendors. One extension in this group (Industry Group Contacts 2) belongs to MEGABAU 365 rather than to standard Business Central.
Note
The Construction-Base-specific attribute framework that these Contact and Industry Group extensions build on (for example the "Attributes" action on the Contact Card) is described in Contact Attributes.
Contact
These extensions apply to the standard Business Central table "Contact" and its pages "Contact Card", "Contact List" and "Contact Statistics FactBox".
Fields added to the "Contact" table.
Field
Description
Blocked
Marks the contact as blocked. Shown on the Contact Card (after the "No." field) and on the Contact List (after the "No." field, always visible).
Number of attributes
Counts the Construction Base contact attribute records for the contact's company. Shown on the Contact Statistics FactBox after "No. of Industry Groups". See Contact Attributes.
The list shows the new Blocked field and, when it has been made visible for the current context (e.g. blocking a customer/vendor), offers two additional actions:
Block current Contact
Toggles the Blocked field on the currently selected contact.
Block all Contacts in Filter
Toggles the Blocked field on all contacts in the current filter to the opposite of the current contact's Blocked value.
Note
These two actions, and the Blocked column, are only shown when the page has explicitly been set up to show them (for example when the Contact List is used as a selection list elsewhere in Construction Base); when the list is opened for lookup without this setting, contacts marked as Blocked are filtered out.
Customer/Vendor Lookup
The standard Business Central pages "Customer Lookup" and "Vendor Lookup" each receive a hidden Blocked field (added after the "No." field) and are filtered, when opened, to exclude fully blocked customers/vendors (Blocked = All) from the lookup list.
Vendor
This extension applies to the standard Business Central table "Vendor" and its "Vendor Hist. Buy-from FactBox" page.
Field added to the "Vendor" table.
Field
Description
No. of BOQ Orders
Counts open (not yet invoiced) purchase Bill of Quantities orders for which this vendor is the Buy-from Vendor.
Vendor Hist. Buy-from FactBox
The FactBox shows the No. of BOQ Orders field, added at the end of its layout.
Related information
Original Construction Base Features, Contact Attributes Contact Attributes let you tag contacts with your own, freely defined characteristics - independent of the standard Contact fields - so contacts can be filtered, evaluated or flagged based on criteria specific to your organization...
Original Construction Base Features, Contact Branches & Industry Groups Construction Base classifies contacts by branch/industry using the Industry Groups tree, and keeps a contact's industry-group assignment synchronized across multiple companies using the Contact Branch Companies setup...
Contact & CRM
The FactBox shows the No. of BOQ Orders field, added at the end of its layout.
