Design Desk

Open this screen in Saral/projects/design-desk

The design team's desk, opened from Projects: every client comment on a drawing as one row, with its drafted answer, the answer given, the notice it went out in and its clocks, one project at a time. You see the projects you may open. The same screen is in the Design module. Saral sends nothing to the client from here.

You enter

The project to work on, and the tab: My day, My rows, All rows, DPNs, GDN / CDN, Release schedule, Samples or Clocks.
Comments for your colleagues on a comment or a notice: type @ and a name to tell that person inside Saral.
If you may answer in the Design module: accept or edit a drafted answer, add a comment by hand, record a notice, a sample or a drawing's planned issue date.

Saral fills in

The comment rows, filed overnight from the project's returned drawings and comment schedules, each sorted and drafted with its evidence.
The clocks on every row and notice: the days left, due today, or the days over.
The release schedule from the project's work packages and its drawing register, and the DRS items that need action on My day.

It produces

The Schedule of Comments, the DPN letter, the DTM tracker and agenda and the notice and sample registers as Excel, Word or PDF. Each is a draft for a person to check and issue; Saral never posts an answer to the client.

What this page is for

Reading, from Projects, where every client comment on a drawing stands: what the client said, what we answered, which notice carried it and how long is left. Before this the Desk could be opened only from the Design module.

Who can do what

Anyone with a Projects job role reads the Desk for the projects they are assigned to; a project outside them is not shown. Answering — accepting or editing a draft, adding a comment, recording a notice, a sample or a planned date — needs Design → Manage, which the Design Manager and Document Controller roles carry where the account has the Design module. Everyone who can read a comment or a notice can comment in its thread.

What is only in the Design module

Aconex mail, Saral Share, the markup PDF, the command box, the supplier note and the Desk's settings are the design team's own and are shown only to people with access to the Design module. Emails are read in the Email Hub. The cost note on a comment is shown to the design team only.

Nothing is sent from here

The letters and schedules the Desk makes are drafts. A person checks them and issues them on Aconex; Saral records the date. The Notices page lists what is waiting across all your projects and links each row back to this Desk.

Next screen: /projects/notices-register

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