News – StatsBlog

Hariri Pontarini is now on the FIVE Hosted Cloud

Like many other clients over the past few years, long-time client Hariri Pontarini recently migrated their privately hosted FIVE construction contract administration server to our secure FIVE Hosted Cloud platform.

Our team managed the automated migration, which was remotely initiated and monitored overnight to minimize the involvement of Hariri Pontarini’s IT department and avoid downtime for the CCA staff. Our automatic redirection system ensured that all users were able to get back online quickly and easily, without any issues.

According to Hariri Pontarini’s IT department, the migration from local server to our cloud server was one of the smoothest Cloud migrations in their history. That’s something we are very proud to hear!

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LWG Architectural Interiors Chooses the FIVE Hosted Cloud

We’re very happy to welcome LWG Architectural Interiors to the FIVE Hosted Cloud!

We’ve worked hard alongside the LWG team to roll-out a series of new features and enhancements to meet their exacting design guidelines and brand standards – something that the StatsLog team is uniquely positioned to deliver to its clients.

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More Cover Letter Improvements

Thanks to feedback from long time StatsLog users at WZMH Architects, we have added a new feature to Cover Letters in FIVE.

Now you have the option to save customized templates to the active project for one-off scenarios, which keeps them separate from other projects and avoids clutter in the Cover Letters menu.

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Improvements to Cover Letters

We’ve made some improvements to the Cover Letter feature of FIVE.

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Log New Items with Drag & Drop from Outlook

It’s now quicker and easier to log new incoming action items like RFIs, Quotes, and Submittals in FIVE!

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Drag & Drop Email Messages as Attachments

You have always been able to drag & drop an email message onto a document in FIVE to grab the email’s attachments and store them in FIVE. But thanks to a feature request from users at Strasman Architects, you can now easily attach email message content as a PDF with a vastly simplified workflow.

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A Fresh New Look

Almost 200 icons have been completely redesigned to be crisp, clear, and colourful on today’s modern display devices.

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Statslog Founder Michael Copas Awarded OAA Honourary Membership

Michael Copas (founder of STATSLOG Software) received an Honorary Membership from the Ontario Association of Architects. Honorary Membership is one of the highest honours the OAA can bestow on a person outside of the profession of architecture. Council nominates individuals who, as defined in the Architects’ Act:

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With Links, From Me to You

When it comes to email, one size does not fit all.

Even though most mailboxes accept email messages of 25 megabytes or more, it’s not uncommon for some to be limited to 5 or 10 megabytes. It also not unusual for your CCA documents to exceed that size, especially when they include a lot of images and drawings.

The traditional approach is to publish large documents to your FTP/SFTP site, or a third party file service. This works fine, but can be time consuming – you have to export the document, upload it to the service, and copy & paste the link back into your email message.

We wanted to make things a bit easier for you, so now you can send document attachments as links in just a click – right from FIVE!

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Won’t You Please, Please Help Me?

No two companies do their construction contract administration exactly the same way. We’ve designed FIVE to be as flexible as possible so that our software helps you do things your way, not our way. Because of this, our documentation is broad, generic, and useful at a high-level to the wide variety of architectural, engineering, and interior design firms that use FIVE.

Some of our customers have developed a more personalized layer of internal documentation that describes their unique processes and workflows as they relate to FIVE. Storing this custom documentation where it is easily discoverable and within arms reach of all users can become an issue. To make this easier, you can now keep all your custom user guides in the Help menu of FIVE!

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