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  1. Enable Customer Portal Access

    The customer portal provides a secure location for your customers to upload (and download) documents directly into your DocBoss projects. Customer web access is provided to contacts associated with the company. Before enabling customer web access...
  2. Add Company Doc Code Lists

    Add doc code lists to companies for use on projects.
  3. Create API access credentials (per application)

    Navigate to the security settings screen via the Settings menu. Your user account must have the security permission to access the security settings. If you do not see this option, contact your administrator. The API Authorization ...
  4. Obsolete Cards and How to Manage Them

    What is an obsolete card: When a locked card loses all of its linked units, it becomes obsolete. See " why would a card lose all of its linked units ?" Examples: If the Equipment List gets changed The Doc Code gets changed The set lev...
  5. Add Stage(s) to Stage List

    After creating a stage list, stages can be added to suit your company's process. If you are looking to modify stages on a stage list mid-project, see our support article:  Update/Change Stage List Mid-Project . To add a stage to a new stage lis...
  6. Sending documents via Ad-Hoc

    Ad-Hoc submittals are special, in that they do NOT affect the workflow of your documents. It is simply a way to get documents to anyone outside the company, recording they were sent, and leaving the status/stage etc unaffected. They should be res...
  7. How to Use Conditional Formatting in Templates

    Conditional formatting can be used to highlight specific values once generated in DocBoss. Conditional formatting can be used both when referencing specific cells, or referencing a different cells / in arrays. Referencing a specific cell If high...
  8. Key DocBoss Terminology

    DocBoss Term Also Known As Description Affiliate * Internal company, doc control office Internal company in DocBoss. Multiple affiliates can be used to separate divisions of a company. Sales order num...
  9. Due Date & Expected Date

    Definitions - Due Dates are the dates when the documents are scheduled to be submitted to customer (if card is with customer and there is a date in this field, it is intended for the next submittal). - Expected dates are the dates when the docu...
  10. Create Manual Cards (Individual)

    Users may now add manual cards to their projects, even when just using the tagged equipment units. First - ensure the manual card module has been enabled on your project .  Add Cards To add an individual card, click the + in...