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Lattira Spec & NBS Chorus
Getting Started for specifiers
21
Accessing Lattira Spec and NBS Chorus
Adding Users to your organization
Welcome to the specification platform: 'UK - CAWS'
Welcome to the specification platform: 'UK - Uniclass'
Welcome to the specification platform: 'Pro' & 'UK - CAWS'
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Getting started for Building Product Manufacturers
7
Getting started for Building Product Manufacturers
Accessing your 'Organization'
'Active Users' and how to manage them
Creating a master for your products
Using a masters to create a specification to share
See all 7 articles
Hints and Tips
21
'Quick actions' lets you go to recently opened specs
Choose your theme - light, dark or system
Compact view
'Maximise grid' to show more data on screen
Keyboard Shortcuts
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Projects
13
How to create a new project
‘All projects’ for the organization
How to access ‘My projects’
Project data sharing - your options
Project data sharing in detail
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Collaboration on projects ('Team members' tab)
6
Inviting someone to collaborate on a project
Collaboration roles and permissions - Projects & master folders
Inherited permissions for specifications
What happens when I invite someone to a project?
Switching between organizations you are collaborating with
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Active sessions
4
Who is counted as an active user?
Who can end active user sessions?
What happens to a user when their session is ended?
Best practice for active users
Subscription messages
7
This content is not part of your current subscription
This subscription to Lattira Spec/ NBS Chorus is currently full
You can't use Lattira Spec/ NBS Chorus just now
Subscription to Lattira Spec/ NBS Chorus is being set up
Subscription to Lattira Spec/ NBS Chorus is not available
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Designer and Writer roles
5
Designer and Writer roles – an overview
Select your role
Webinar – Introducing the 'Designer' role
Designer and Writer: frequently asked questions
Which permissions and roles to assign for your project
Starting specifications
10
How to create a new specification
Searching and browsing the content set
Searching for content by code
Searching and adding content
Searching for content in order of 'Relevance'
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Editing specifications
24
Adding and duplicating rows within the editor
Formatting text in the editor
Suffixes and prefixes - Adding and Editing
System Generated Suffixes - Overview
Blue, grey and red content bubbles (applies to Uniclass)
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Copying specification content
10
Copying whole sections and systems into another specification
Copying sections and systems within the same specification
Duplicate clauses found (Uniclass - Work sections)
Copying sections and systems to another organization
Copying single articles and clauses
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Tables
2
Tables – adding, editing, and copying tables
Copying table styles into existing stylesheets
Variables
11
Variables - an overview
Changing variables
Adding variables to specifications and notes
How to see variables
Copying variables
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Search my specification
1
Searching my specification - an overview
Search projects and masters
2
Cross-project and master search - an overview
Cross-project and master search permissions
Specifying construction products
15
What is the 'Products' panel
Adding products from the spec 'Products' panel
Adding manufacturer products from Source
Adding product from Source using the 'Add To Spec' button
Drag and drop products from Source
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Engaging with Buidling product manufacturers
4
Specification writing partner
Request manufacturer support
Suggesting manufacturers and products
Contact manufacturer
Marking articles and clauses as complete
1
Marking articles and clauses as complete
Publishing your specification to MS Word/ PDF
7
Publishing your specification
How to publish and export a selection of your spec
Background publishing
What happens to shared clauses in the published specification? (Uniclass)
Browser setting: Download multiple files
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'Publishing specification' with a 'Pro' plans and above
10
Publish by 'single systems' or 'grouped systems by code' (Uniclass)
Publishing 'Separate sections' and 'Separate systems'
Publishing 'Separate prefixes' (Uniclass)
Publishing 'Separate tags'
Section/ System 'Revision history'
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Revisions and 'Publish history'
6
Revisions - an overview
How to publish your specification with revision labels
How to delete items from the Publish history
Recreate publication
This document is not available for download
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Detailed revisions
6
Detailed revisions - an overview
Detailed revisions explained
How to publish with detailed revisions
Customizing detailed revisions styling
Updating existing stylesheets – simple approach
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Styling your specification with a 'Basic' subscription
3
Stylesheet: Applying A Microsoft Word Template ('Basic' subscriptions)
Stylesheet: Creating A Microsoft Word Template - Advanced
Stylesheet: Creating A Microsoft Word Template - Basic
Styling your specification for 'Pro' and above
14
Custom Stylesheets - Masterclass
01 Download the 'Default stylesheets templates'
02 Customizing your stylesheet template
03 Customizing your stylesheet template (advanced)
04 Uploading and managing stylesheets (for 'Organization admins')
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Reports
5
Export submittals report and upload to Common Data Environments
Export Summary Sheet for Uniclass Specifications
Export to Keynote to annotate drawings
Export sustainability report
Export financial summary for small works
Spec check report
5
Use the 'Spec check report' to find part of the specification needs attention
What are broken links and how to fix them (Uniclass)
Consolidating your specification using Spec check
Cross-reference sections using Spec check
Finding variables using the Spec check report
Schedules
8
Masterclass webinar: How to use Schedules
Schedules - Overview
What information is shown in the Schedule grid
How to tag items for the schedule
Show all articles and clauses on the 'Schedule' tab
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Schedule 'Bulk actions'
3
Parking articles and clauses in bulk
Marking items as complete or incomplete in bulk
Adding and removing tags in bulk
Tagging
7
Tagging - an overview
Adding tags to articles, clauses and sections
Copying tags
Publish specification for tagged items
Summary schedule export for tagged items
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Content set - Australia SpecPack, SpeedSpec and SureSpec
3
SpecPack downloads: Checklists/ Risk register/ Forms/ Schedules
SpeedSpec downloads: Checklists/ Risk register/ Forms/ Schedules
SureSpec downloads: Checklists/ Risk register/ Forms/ Schedules
Content set - Early-stage specification (UK CAWS & Uniclass)
2
Early-stage specification (UK) - an overview
BCIS cost, carbon and lifecycle considerations
Content set - Canada CMS, NMS & NMS French
3
Inserting a new article into your specification
What is the difference between CMS and NMS Canadian content?
What are divisions?
Content set - UK CAWS
4
UK - CAWS Preliminaries and work sections content sets
Issue with missing text in UK - CAWS Work sections, February 2024
Issue with UK – CAWS specifications, June 2024
Issue with section level updates within UK - CAWS specifications, June 2024
Content Set - Uniclass (Australia & UK)
9
Uniclass Preliminaries
Uniclass Work sections
Understanding the different terms used in the different content sets
Used by shows the parent of the clause in the guidance
Can I see more information about content before I add it to my specification?
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Content set - Preliminaries (UK - CAWS & UK - Uniclass)
7
0- Setting up a preliminaries specification
1- Creating a new project
2- Creating a new preliminaries specification
3- Copying a whole preliminaries specification from another project or a master
4- Deleting a preliminaries section
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Content set 'Update' notifications
6
Update notifications - an overview
Using the Update tab
Update notifications for Uniclass specifications
Update notifications for UK - CAWS specifications
Unable to update clause, the suffix is too long
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Consolidate (Uniclass only)
4
Consolidate - an overview
How to consolidate your specification
How ‘Consolidate’ finds identical clauses
'Max 1 clause'
Network and Data
3
Saving your work if you lose internet connectivity
How secure is my data?
Where is my data stored?
Masters
7
Making the most of masters
Video overview of Masters
Setting up masters
Accessing and reusing masters in your projects
Links between masters and projects
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Master change notifications
5
Master change notifications - an overview
Master change notifications: Master author
Master change notifications: 'Updates' tab
Master change notifications: 'Comparison previewer'
Master Change Notifications: Actioned Updates
Org notes
7
Organization notes - an overview
How to create, edit and delete an org note
Where org notes are displayed
Permissions for org notes
Differences between org notes and spec notes
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Spec notes
6
Specification notes - an overview
Adding and replying to 'Spec notes' for sections, systems, articles, clauses and rows
‘Shared notes’ and ‘Internal notes'
How to edit and delete a spec note
Permissions for 'Spec notes'
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@Mentions in 'Spec notes' and 'Master notes'
5
@mentions - an overview
How to mention someone
When someone mentions you
My mentions
Mentions edge cases
Model Integration - Autodesk Revit
11
Parameters inserted into objects after association
We now sync more parameters
Load NBS tags to display associations
Association warnings
How are Autodesk Revit Classification Manager and the NBS Plug-in for Autodesk Revit different?
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Model Integration - Graphisoft Archicad
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Labelling in ARCHICAD
Download the specification Add-In for ARCHICAD
Updating your ARCHICAD model to show changes made in a specification
How to open the NBS Chorus Palette in ARCHICAD
BIM Content Packages For ARCHICAD
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Model Integration - Vectorworks
2
Where can I get the Vectorworks plug-in?
Vectorworks plug-in overview video
Importing from NBS Building and Landscape
7
How to import NBS Building/Landscape files
Recommended steps for importing an NBS Building/ Landscape file
Understanding the NBS Building/ Landscape import report
What will be imported from NBS Building/ Landscape
Problems importing your NBS Building or Landscape file import
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Importing from NBS Create
8
Recommended steps for importing an NBS Create specification (.spex)
How to import an NBS Create specification (.spex) file
Keep NBS Create clause codes and titles
Importing from NBS Create - What will and will not be imported?
Understanding the NBS Create import report
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Importing from Microsoft Word (using MS Word 'styles)
4
Importing Microsoft Word-based specifications
Why importing from MS Word failed
How to reformat your MS Word specification to import
Understanding the MS Word import report
Importing PDF & MS Word (unstructured documents using AI)
1
Importing PDF and MS Word files (AI method) - In development
Copilot (Beta programme now closed)
3
'Copilot' - an overview (Beta programme now closed)
Copilot 'Show tool use'
Copilot beta testing change log
Providing Feedback
1
Providing feedback on Lattira Spec and NBS Chorus
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