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After setting up the Complex, Building, Level, Unit, Room and the associated relations between them, the next part is to decide where to put elements associated with these items, such as: Doors, windows, wall substrates, wall finishes, floors types, floor finishes, ceiling substrates, ceiling finishes, external wall types external wall finishes, These need to hang

This one I’m still working through, there are a lot of connectors in the process, I think to be able to adapt to more complex scenarios. I’m not sure they are all required in every instance. The following example is Out of The Box. I have just hit the buttons and followed the process. I

This has been a challenge. It has taken me a couple of weeks to crack, tinkering with it on and off. If you follow the setup for the localhost Link  you are almost there. I did this setup on my Amazon AWS EC2 and Contabo servers, but both of them errored out (see errors at

OpenMAINT uses reports created in iReport from Jaspersoft, but this has been superseded by Jaspersoft Studio. I did initially` try and use iReport but found that the download file did not just fire up but needs a bit of work done to it, setting up a NetBean environment. I am a bit wary of the

In the first part we got the remote server VPS up and operating. It is a windows 2012 64 bit operating system, so try and load 64 bit programmes into it. The next part is seeing that we can connect to the server through our browser, rather than Remote Desktop Connection. Aside for Setting up

Virtual Private Server (VPS) is basically a remote computer with an operating system (OS) of your choice. A lot of Web Host Providers offer Linux OS servers as a few Linux OS are free. I prefer the Windows servers as I am used to the environment. The Server is a means to an end. So

Summary openMAINT is an open source software for Asset & Facilities Management. Being open source you get what you pay for. The Free option requires a lot of your time an effort. The support option I have not tried, but quote for cost seems high (refer beginning of this blog ). With this you do

This Survey uses Revit Model Measures to Compare against SPM Surveyed Data of 26 identical apartments. The Survey This is comparison of Duncan Terrace Flats  A01 to A26 which are all similar,( some handed so bathroom/kitchens are flipped- see plans below). Each individual flat was surveyed by one of 5 surveyors who had a group

On Starting openMAINT you get this error of the image to the left on the opening page. It is related to the Shark Server.  This is the Workflow server. I actually found that the file for shark.war was in fact corrupted with the openMAINT download 1.1 2.4.3  version. See Image 2 below, this shows that

OpenMAINT putting data into system Export/Import Manually putting in data line by line  using “cards” can be tedious, especially when data spreads across 3 or more tabs. So openMAINT has a couple of ways to bulk input/update. They are in the Administration Tab under “Utiulities” (at bottom) in LH side bar. You can select a