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Structuring your bill of quantities
For ultimate flexibility, you can add multiple zones, sub zones and even clone zones, to build the bill structure you require. Before using these features, we recommend watching our guidance video to help you get it right first time.
Video - Structuring your bill of quantities
The following video (14 mins) covers:
- Intro (0:00)
- Guidance (0:51)
- Recap on zoning (1:23)
- How to add a single zone (1:52)
- How to add multiple zones (2:36)
- How to add a sub zone (3:34)
- How to move, clone, edit & delete a zone (4:16)
- Real-life examples (4:52)
- How to add quantities (12:08)
Please note: The screens shown in this video may differ from the current version of Chalkstring due to regular updates and improvements.
Since the recording of this video, the bill of quantities has been updated to contain coloured flags to highlight the source of the quantity in each product for each zone.
- White cell = No quantity or quantity has been entered manually.
- Blue = The quantities have been populated from a drawing from the takeoff section of Chalkstring.
- Dark Pink = The quantities have been populated by using the client bill import.
- Green = The quantities have been populated by using export import feature on the bill of quantities page.
- Yellow = The quantities have been populated as result of changing the on site remeasure via progress slider in the progress section of Chalkstring.
- Purple = The quantities have been populated by linking this product to another. The 'parent' product automatically populates the quantity for any linked product.