Commercial Estimators

If anyone has some good Timberline Estimating Extended setups, tips and tricks please post them here.

I'll start;

 We are a national General Contractor with estimators in various locations.  We use a Terminal Services server that hosts our Timberline Software and uses the License Manager utility.  Having the Estimators work directly from the server as opposed to from their local machines allows us to make instant changes to the database and options file with instant availability to the Estimator.  It also allows us to store our estimates in a central location which allows for backups, instant sharing and use of Estimating Explorer.

 How are others handling multi-users in various locations?

MODS, maybe this should be moved to the Sage Timberline forum?

We have the same setup for Timberline and On-Screen. If I am at a location with no internet I check-out a license from LM and copy the database for remote use.

We had problems with running the OST application on the same TS.  The graphics looked quirky and it was slow.  Are you having any issues with OST on your server or does it work just as responsive as it would on your local machine?

Thanks, Dave

OST was running slow opening and changing between bids until we upgraded to 3.5 last week. It seems to run about the same on the network as a local machine.

I have seen the issue you mention in past versions of the program but seems to running fine right now.

The Mircosoft SQL database setup seems to work good now, when we first went this route after having a database on each station it was slow.