- Dash360 now has a new feature that automatically calculates MTDCs for you. Now, anytime you Recalculate Project or change a Resource Assignment with MTDCs applied to it, the system will automatically calculate your Indirects and ensure you don’t go over your cap!
- This feature is turned off by default. However, there is a new Registry setting that allows you to turn this feature on. The registry setting is called “MTDC-Show”. Just flip it to “On” for your project’s registry to use it.
- Once activated, a new MTDC tab will appear in the Admin → Edit Project screen. Clicking on this tab will allow you to set your MTDC Cap Amount (typically $25K), MTDC Frequency (how often the MTDC needs to be applied - once or yearly), MTDC Cap Resource Results and the Indirect Resource Results for your project. The MTDC Cap Resource Results (typically Direct + Escalation on most projects) are the resource results the system will use to determine if you have hit your cap. The MTDC Indirect Results area allows you to select those resource results that should be effected by the MTDC setting.
- Once you have MTDC configured in your project, you will also see a new MTDC section that will appear on the Add / Edit Resource Assignment form that will allow you to add MTDC to a single resource assignment. Simply click the “On” radio button for the “Is MTDC” field. Then, choose your MTDC Frequency and Save. The system will now apply MTDCs for this Resource Assignment based on your project settings.
- You can also calculate MTDCs across multiple Resource Assignments that are part of a MTDC Contract. This feature allows you to spread your MTDC Cap ($25K) across multiple Resource Assignments as long as all of those Resource Assignments have the same Resource Code. You can create new Contracts in the Admin → Edit Project → MTDC → Contracts section.
- Finally, there also is a Registry setting called MTDC-Default-Frequency-Is-Yearly that is set to Off by default. If this is set to On, then the system will default check the MTDC Frequency to Yearly instead of Once.
- Administrators now have access to a new Activity Log that tracks when users login, logout and the pages that each user visits. It even tracks the filters that users apply on the pages they visited! Finally, this feature also tracks any time you import a file or restore a project. This is our first attempt at tracking history in Dash360. We will be adding more history tracking to Dash360 through out 2023, so stay tuned!
- There is now a new feature in Dash360 that allows an administrator to send notifications to users. These notifications can be any message you would like to send. Admins can access this feature by going to Admin → Notifications. Notifications can be sent to 1 user, all users or a group of users. Users will see these notifications appear in the bell in the upper right hand corner of Dash360. Each user can then clear the notification by clicking the “Clear” button.
- Estimating → Work Package Report: When viewing and exporting the Work Package Report in the “Detailed” view, the system would sometimes show an incorrect Resource Result label in the Labor, Non-Labor and Travel data grids. This could cause the label “Escalation” or “Indirect” to appear when the label “FTE” should have appeared. This only happened when individual Resource Calculation lines were in a different order than how they were originally inserted into the Dash360 database. This has been corrected so Dash360 always orders these calculations correctly and thus pulls the correct label.
- Admin → Rates: When clicking on the View Rates link for a Rate Set, the system would show all Rates in your Rate File instead of just the Rates for this Rate Set. This would occur any time a Rate Set had a trailing space at the end of the Rate Set Name field. This has been corrected so the Rate Set Name field is always trimmed. We also went through all customer databases and made sure that no Rate Set Names had any trailing spaces. If we did find any, we fixed them for you.