Construction Base extends the standard Business Central Job and Job Task tables, the MEGABAU 365 Job EmployeesMGB table and the standard Jobs Setup to support construction-specific job costing and workforce administration - most importantly linking jobs to manufacturing production orders, tracking a foreman per job task, and managing crews ("Partie/Kolonne") in a job's resource assignments.
Job (Business Central standard) - Job Card, Job List
The standard Business Central table Job is extended with fields that summarize related production orders and material commitments.
Fields
Field
Description
No. of planned prod. orders
Number of planned production orders linked to this job.
No. of firm planned prod. orders
Number of firm planned production orders linked to this job.
No. of released prod. orders
Number of released production orders linked to this job.
No. of finished prod. orders
Number of finished production orders linked to this job.
No. of Item Ledger Entries
Number of positive item ledger entries posted for this job.
No. of Blanket Orders
Number of open material blanket purchase orders for this job, restricted to the user's purchase responsibility center.
User is Foreman
Indicates that the current user is set up as foreman on at least one task of this job.
The standard Job Card and Job List pages are extended accordingly:
A new Prod. Orders factbox (shown before the Sales factbox) displays the counts above with drill-down to the corresponding production order list, see Manufacturing Extensions.
Create Cost Unit action (Job Card) creates a cost unit default dimension (Global Dimension 2) value for the job. It is only shown when "Manual Def. Dim. 2 on Job" is enabled in the CB Setup.
Machinery per Job action (Job List) runs the "Machinery per Sites" report filtered to the selected job.
Mobile App Functions field (Job Card) lets mobile users start a mobile-specific function; it is only visible for profiles flagged as Mobile Client, see Role Centers. For the same mobile profiles, the "Invoice and Shipping" and "WIP and Recognition" field groups are hidden on the Job Card.
Job Task (Business Central standard)
The standard Business Central table Job Task is extended with one field, shown on the Job Task Card and in the Job Task Lines subform:
Field
Description
Foreman
The salesperson/purchaser responsible as foreman for this job task.
Job Employees (MEGABAU 365) - Job EmployeesMGB
The MEGABAU 365 table Job EmployeesMGB, which holds the resources assigned to a job, is extended with crew ("Partie/Kolonne") support.
Fields
Field
Description
Include Team
Resource number of the crew leader this employee line was added for (set automatically).
Team included
Indicates that the crew members of this leader have already been added to the job.
Starting Date / Ending Date
Start and end date taken over from the crew member setup.
Is Teamleader
Indicates that this line is the crew leader itself.
Important
When you assign a resource that is set up as a crew ("Partie/Kolonne") leader to a job, Construction Base asks whether the crew's members should be added to the job as well. Removing the leader's line offers to remove the crew members too. Changes to a crew's members are likewise offered for all jobs the crew is already used in.
On the Job EmployeesMGB page, the crew leader's line is shown in bold and the Starting Date/Ending Date columns are added (read-only).
Jobs Setup (Business Central standard)
The standard Business Central Jobs Setup is extended with construction-specific defaults, shown in a new Job Time Recording group and in the General group of the setup page.
Field
Description
Job Time Rec Nos.
Number series used for job time recording documents.
Use Job Type of Work
Uses the job's "Type of Work" as the default on new job time recording lines of the corresponding line type.
Use Job Person
Uses the job's assigned personnel as the default on new job time recording lines of the corresponding line type.
Site Pick Approval Tolerance (days)
Number of days a site pick list can still be approved after the fact.
Create Default Job Task
Automatically creates a default job task for new jobs.
Job Journal Line (Business Central standard)
The standard Business Central Job Journal Line is extended with a read-only field Do not post Item to job, which Construction Base sets to exclude specific item postings from job costing.
Job Ledger Entry (Business Central standard)
The standard Business Central Job Ledger Entry is extended with two fields used to select entries, and partial quantities from them, for follow-up processing such as returning material posted to a job:
Field
Description
Select
Marks the ledger entry as selected.
Select (quantity)
The quantity selected from this entry. Cannot exceed the entry's quantity and requires the entry to have a job number.
Related information
Setup, CB Setup The CB Setup page contains the general setup for Construction Base. It currently controls how Default Dimension 2 is handled on jobs...
Business Central Extensions, Manufacturing Construction Base links Business Central production orders to construction jobs and Bills of Quantities, and extends the MEGABAU 365 machinery usage line with a site pick category. Two new factbox pages surface the linked production orders on jobs and on Bills of Quantities...
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