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About issues - BIM 360 Tutorial

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About issues

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- [Instructor] We've been using markups to convey design changes, but what if we wanted something a little more formal, something where we could identify a task to be completed, and also assign responsibility. That's what we're talking about with issues. You can see here I'm in a document that has a markup in it. And markups are great for conveying any design changes that we need to make. We've got markups that can add text, and revision clouds, and we can draw shapes. But there's really no way to assign this markup to somebody to actually address the changes that it's conveying. Now, let me get down here to the bottom of my screen and turn on the issues. And you'll see when I do that there's a yellow circle. This actually, we call these push pins, it's like sticking a pin in the drawing. And this push pin represents what's called an issue in BIM 360. I'll go ahead and click on it. And you can see over here on the left that there's information assigned to this issue. Here we have the status. You'll notice I'm on the details tab, and this issue has a name, convert this to three office spaces. It says that it was created by me, the type of issue it is, who it's assigned to, notice that it's assigned to me, the date that it's due. So not only does this belong to me, it's my task to do, but I have to have it done by this date. And as I scroll down through, you'll see that there's more information attached to this issue, where it's located, who owns it, what its root cause is, and then maybe a detailed description of how to address it. Now, what I can do with this issue is even communicate back to the person who owns it. They have asked that this room be broken up into three rooms, and they've even provided a markup to go with it. And I want to point that out, that issues and markups can go together quite nicely. The markup conveys graphically the change you'd like to make, but the issue actually draws the attention of a specific individual, or company, or role, to make sure that somebody has accountability and to make sure that it gets done. So what I can do here is if, I've gone ahead and address this issue, I can perhaps change the status to answered. And I can even add a comment here, I've created the three rooms, as asked. And when that happens, the person who owns the issue will get a notification, and they'll know that, that's been addressed. So here's some key points when talking about issues. One is that we're able to assign responsibility to somebody to make sure that the task is complete. Not only that, we can track that responsibility, we can see the status change as that person or those people, make the changes that were requested and change the status and provide their comments. And that leads me to another important point about issues. It also creates a record of the issue, and how it was addressed. And that means at any time, you can look back on that record, and if there's a problem, a month, or six months or a year down the road, maybe something wasn't quite right about how these rooms were created, and maybe it doesn't come to light until construction, or even when the building's turned over to the owner. Well, we can always look back in the records that we have in our BIM 360 project, and maybe there will be a clue as to what happened in this issue record, that will last as long as the project last in BIM 360. Okay, so now that you understand what issues are and what purpose they serve, let's look at creating issues in the next video.

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