Construction Base

The app Construction Base is a NAVAX extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that adds construction-industry functionality on top of MEGABAU 365 (published by Network Dimensions GmbH), on which Construction Base depends.

Current Version:

• 1.0.1.0 as of Business Central 26

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General

• Construction Base
  Construction Base is a NAVAX extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that adds construction-industry functionality on top of MEGABAU 365 (published by Network Dimensions GmbH), on which Construction Base depends...

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...
• Setup Extensions (Megabau, Marketing, Purchases & Payables)
  Construction Base adds configuration options to several setup areas: the Megabau Setup from MEGABAU 365, and the standard Business Central Marketing Setup, Purchases & Payables Setup, Email Scenarios and Companies...

Original Construction Base Features

• Basket
  The Basket is a personal, temporary collection of item numbers. It lets you search for items with flexible filters, collect the ones you need in a shopping-cart-like list, and then insert all of them at once as new lines into a supported document - instead of adding items to the document one by one...
• Approval Workflow
  The Automatic Approval workflow tracks and enforces the approval of Site Pick Lists that include machinery/equipment usage. As long as such a Site Pick List has not been approved, it cannot be posted...
• 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...
• 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...
• Job Time Recording
  Job Time Recording is Construction Base's own site/job time recording system. For every job and every day you record who worked how long, which equipment and materials were used, and which type of work the hours belong to - and eventually release the recorded hours into the weekly time sheets...
• Mobile App Integration
  Mobile App integration lets Construction Base recognize which Business Central users are working in a mobile role, and offers them a small set of mobile-optimized entry points for common site tasks - time recording, repair time, machinery overview and machinery logistics...
• Data Mirroring
  Data Mirroring is a generic mechanism that keeps two or more Business Central tables automatically synchronized, record for record. Once a mirror is set up between tables, any insert, change, deletion or rename of a record in one of the mirrored tables is automatically copied to the matching record in every other active table of the same mirror...
• Inventory Overview
  Inventory Overview is a set of read-only overview and drill-down pages that let site and warehouse staff quickly check how much of an item is currently in stock - broken down by location or by job - and jump straight into the underlying postings...
• Machinery on Job
  Machinery in Job is a Construction Base feature that lets you see, select and transfer the machinery currently assigned to a job, search for suitable machinery, get suggestions of machinery already logged on a job, and manage accessory machineries and location responsibles...

MEGABAU 365 Extensions

• Machinery Management
  Construction Base extends several machinery-related objects of MEGABAU 365 instead of introducing new ones. This page documents these extensions, grouped by the MEGABAU 365 object they modify...
• Team Member Overview
  The Team/Crew Overview is a Construction Base page that gives you a read-only, grouped overview of teams/crews and their members. It is built on top of a small Construction Base extension of MEGABAU 365's Resource Team Member table, which adds the fields needed to group and sort the overview and to count the jobs a team member is assigned to...
• Role Centers
  Construction Base extends the Business Central role center experience in three different ways...
• Bill of Quantities (BoQ)
  Bill of Quantities (BoQ) is the MEGABAU 365 feature for building, calculating and selling structured lists of construction services and materials on a sales quote or order. Construction Base extends the BoQ sales process with an overview of the production orders and item ledger entries generated from a BoQ sales order, and adds the Basket item picker to the BoQ calculation lines...
• Circle Search
  Circle Search is the MEGABAU 365 feature that finds contacts located within a given radius of an address, for example to locate nearby subcontractors, suppliers or customers around a construction site. Construction Base extends Circle Search with a contact attribute filter and automatically excludes blocked contacts from the results...
• Material Requests & Demand Requisition
  The material demand-to-purchase flow in MEGABAU 365 starts with a Demand Request that collects the items needed for a job, routes them into a requisition worksheet, and from there into purchase documents. Construction Base extends this flow: it can automatically route demand into a dedicated planning worksheet, adds its own Delivery Type classification that is kept in sync with the underlying worksheets, and adds an item picker and additional overview fields along the way...
• Site Pick Lists & Warehouse
  Construction Base extends the MEGABAU 365 Site Pick List feature, which is used to pick material and machinery for a construction site (job), with an approval workflow...
• CSD Incidents & Daily Constr. Site Report
  Construction Base extends the MEGABAU 365 CSD Incident functionality with a reference to the machinery involved in an incident, and adds a new CB Activities part that gives quick access to incidents, machinery search and the current Daily Construction Site Report from a role center...
• Job Expense & Time Sheet
  MEGABAU 365 provides the job expense / weekly time sheet (Wochenzettel) functions for recording employee working time and related expenses against jobs, together with a separate recording function for material used on repair jobs. Construction Base extends the header, line and posted line tables of this area, the related time sheet pages, the repair recordal material lines, and the Type of Work master data with additional fields and actions needed for construction site operations...

Business Central Extensions

• Job
  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...
• 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...
• Purchase Documents
  Construction Base extends the standard Business Central purchasing documents (Purchase Order, Purchase Quote, Blanket Purchase Order, Purchase Receipt and the Requisition Worksheet) with a construction-specific Delivery Type and a fast item search called the Basket...
• Contact & CRM
  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...
• Item
  Construction Base extends the standard Business Central Item master data area with the data and actions needed for construction and project business: visibility of inventory held on jobs, industry classification of item categories, convenient display of item attribute values, and project references carried through item journal lines and item ledger entries...
• Fixed Asset
  Construction Base extends the standard Business Central Fixed Asset functionality so that machinery and equipment which is managed as a fixed asset can be linked to its corresponding machinery record...

Developer Information

• Event Subscribers & Management Codeunits
  This page is intended for partners and implementers who need to understand the technical integration points of Construction Base: which standard Business Central / MEGABAU 365 events are subscribed to, and what the shared helper codeunits do. It does not describe end-user functionality...

Appendix

• Release Notes