Calculating and Printing Saved Estimates

The Group Processing option in the File menu allows you to calculate the costs and/or print reports for one or more previously saved estimates. The steps are:

Select the Group Processing option in the File menu.
Residential Estimator displays the Estimate Selection screen. Select one or more estimates to process:
- Use the Estimate Search Tabs at the bottom of the screen enter any appropriate selection criteria, and click Find Now to display estimates matching the criteria.
- In the Estimate Listing Grid, click anywhere in the row of an estimate to select it. Then, Shift-click or Ctrl-click on the rows of additional estimates to select groups of estimates or other individual estimates. You can also click Select All to select all estimates in the Estimate Listing Grid. Residential Estimator highlights the estimates selected. If you wish to remove the highlighting from an estimate, simply Ctrl-click on that estimate.

Click the OK button to continue.
Residential Estimator displays the Group Processing Options screen. Enter or select each of the following:
- Calculation Type: Select one of the following choices:
  - Do Not Calculate: Do not calculate the costs for any estimates. If you select this option, you must select one or more report types to print.
  - Calculate Uncalculated Estimates: Calculate only those estimates selected on the previous screen that have not already been calculated. If any reports are being printed, use the previously calculated costs for those estimates that have already been calculated.
  - Calculate All Selected Estimates: Calculate or recalculate all estimates selected on the previous screen.
- Report Type: If you want to print reports for the selected estimates, click on the check boxes for the reports you want. If you selected "Do Not Calculate" for Calculation Type, you must select at least one report type (or else there is to processing to complete).
- Log File: During the processing, Residential Estimator writes messages to a log file, depending on which of the following options you select for the log file:
  - Append: Write messages to the log file, appending them to previously written messages if the log file already exists.
  - Overwrite: Write messages to the log file, overwriting any previously written messages if the log file already exists. With this option, the only messages in the log file when the export completes are the messages for this export.
  - None: Do not write messages to a log file.

The log file itself is named ProcessLog.txt, and is located in the folder specified in the Options option of the Tools menu (typically the folder Temp in the Residential Estimator installation folder).

Click the Start button to continue.
During the processing, Residential Estimator displays the status at the bottom of the Group Processing Options screen, including the number of profiles it has processed and the number with errors. At any time during the processing, click the Pause button to pause the processing. Select one of the following options, then click the OK button to continue:
- Continue Processing: Return to the Group Processing Options screen and continue the processing.
- View Log: Use Word Pad to display the messages written to the log file so far.
- Stop Processing: Return to the Group Processing Options screen, but cancel further processing.

When the processing has finished, click the View Log button if there were errors during the processing.
Click the Close button to close the Group Processing Options screen.