What is Re-linking

Re-linking is the process of changing how a priced item in your estimate is connected to you price catalogs and hence what price it shows at in your estimate. Relinking will work for both recipes and regular price items.

Why do you need to relink?

Price catalogs change a lot, and hence Buildxact users change the prices they store, delete catalogs, create new catalogs and all this means we need a way to link the right catalog items to the right estimate costing items.

How do I use it?

1. In your estimate costings screen, when you have items that are linked to a catalog that has either expired, been deleted or the price has changed, you will see an alert.

2. Click on the blue catalog box next to it to see more info, if you're only fixing a single item you can use "Replace Item" or "Apply" to solve the problem, depending on what it is.

3. To bulk update re-link items head to the cog at the top of estimate costings

4. Then select “Update Linked Items”

5. This will launch the relinking screen. You will now see three columns

Column 1 shows you which catalog are being used in your estimate. We will use these catalogues to search for matching items

NOTE: the order of the catalogs is important. The one you want us to check first should be at the top, this is relevant when substituting items from other price catalogs.
Column 2 shows you the list of items with those little alerts from your costings that need to be updated
Column 3 will show you which items we have found in another catalog that match your items in the estimate

6. To find items in a different catalog, use the search to find the catalogue you want to use and select it.

7. This will search that catalogue for any items that match those from your estimate and show you the matches we found.

8. You can then update the items to be linked to the new catalog by clicking “Update New Links”. This will go through your estimate and update all of the cost items with those from the new catalog.

Note for "not required" categories

If you use relinking while having any categories in your estimate or template which are marked as "Not Required" relinking will give you the option of updating those or not.

When you go into the relinking screen there will be a toggle up the top.

When the toggle is off:

Not required category items will not be updated
Not required category items will not be shown in the relinking screen and the total/difference dollar amounts will exclude them

When the toggle is on:

Not required category items will be updated
Not required category items will be shown in the relinking screen and the total/difference dollar amounts will include them