HomeBuilder Release Notes - 26.0.20250407.184692

HomeBuilder Release 26.0.20250407.184692

Released: 7th April, 2025

Please review the "HomeBuilder Release Notes Testing Advisory" prior to installing on your system.

This is a regular, scheduled Dynamics Business Central SaaS release of HomeBuilder on Microsoft AppSource. It contains improvements and fixes, as reported in implementations and usage by consultants and/or customers, and is aggregated monthly. Details are below.

To report any issue or request an enhancement in HomeBuilder, please submit an email to homebuilder@suiteengine.com.

Enhancements

House Area Allocation

“Model Item House Areas” are now replaced with “House Area Allocations”. We have extended the original functionality to not only show which Items are allocated to the House Areas of a Model, but now to also show what quantities, costs and prices are on these items.

View the "Model Item Allocation" pages from the Model or Model Items card or list pages" by clicking the action button "House Area Allocation"

1. The "Model Item Allocation" records get created automatically upon “Push to Models” from Items.
2. As a user, you can override the Quantity determined by the system by entering a new value in the "Qty. Override" field. This Quantity (or Qty Override) value is used with the Planning Line gets created.
3. In the "Model Budget Page" the values in the "Model Item Amount" column are retrieved from the Model Item Allocation table.
4. If you change the Quantity in Model House Area Measurement, the system automatically updates the Quantity in corresponding records of Model Item Allocation if the "Pricing Method" of the Item is 'Measurement'.
5. On deletion of an Item House Area or Model House Area, the corresponding records in Model Item Allocation get automatically deleted as well.
6. The report "Selections Price List" is re-designed to be based on Model Item Allocations.

Bundles Lite (Additional Items)

8. A major new piece of functionality to simplify item setup is the new concept of bundles lite.
9. Simply put, you can now just specify additional items to be included in color chart selections. This means that you no longer must create a bundle and component (duplicate item) when selling things like hardwood.
   1. The main item (the bundle) must have a Designation 'Single Item'.
   2. The additional items (the components) can either have a Designation of 'Single Item' or 'Component'.
10. The additional items have the following fields (along with others)

11. Section "Additional Items" is added to the pages "Construction Item Card", "Phase Item Card", and "Model Item Card". The is section is shown for the Items with Designation "Single Item".
12. The section contains sub-grid with the additional items. The sub-grid has the following actions.
    1. For Item:
       1. New
       2. Delete
    2. Construction Item Card
       1. Construction Item Variants
    3. For Phase Item
       1. Construction Item Card
       2. Construction Item Variants
    4. For Model Item
       1. Model Item Card
       2. Model Item Variants
    5. House Area Allocation
    6. Action "Additional Items" is added to the following pages:
       1. Construction Items
       2. Construction Item Card
       3. Phase Items
       4. Phase Item Card
       5. Model Items
       6. Model Item Card
       7. The action opens pages "Additional Items", "Phase Additional Items", and "Model Additional Items" respectively. These pages have removable filters to allow users to apply filters of their choice.
    7. Action "Push to Models" in pages "Construction Items" and "Construction Item Card" is re-designed to push Additional Items to phases and models and to populate Model Item Allocations.
    8. Vendor Contracts are re-designed in a way to include Phase and Model Additional Items to Contract Revision Items in the case when the checkbox "Override Cost/Price" is turned on.
    9. In the page "Lot Selection Choices", when a user enters "Item No." of a bundle lite item, the system automatically creates choices for additional items. The same logic works on running action "Populate" for Color Char selection packages. Field "Parent Line No." is added to the choices grid to indicate the choice with the parental (bundle lite) item.
    10. Action "Site Model on Lot", which is available in the pages "Lots" and "Lot Card", automatically created Planning Lines for additional items.
    11. The checkbox "Additional Items" is added to the page "Copy to new Item".
    12. The action "Where-used" in pages "Construction Items", "Construction Item Card", "Phase Items", "Phase Item Card", "Model Items", "Model Items" card is enabled also for single items. The page "Bundles Where-used" shows both regular bundles and bundles lite.
    13. Flow-fields "No. of Additional Items", "No. of Addit. Item Usages" are added to the pages "Construction Items", "Phase Items", and "Model Items".
    14. Action "Validate Selected" for Construction Items checks that either "Quantity" or "Total Quantity per Bundle" should be specified for additional item with Pricing Method 'Item'.
    15. Page "Copy from another Model" copies Model Additional Items and Model Item Allocations when the checkbox "Model Items" is turned-on.

Vendor Contracts

Vendor Contract Revisions, which are prior to the current, are now just kept as a historical record. There are no longer any automatic updates to these records.

24. Action "Push to Model" available in Construction Items adds or updates Contract Revision Items only in the current Contract Revision.
25. On changing "Unit Cost" in phase or model item (variant, component), the "Unit Cost" gets updated in the corresponding contract revision item of the current revision only.
26. Actions "Push Costs to Lots" and "Import Phase Items" in the "Contract Revision Items" page are enabled only in the current Contract Revision.
27. Action "Create New Revision" in the "Vendor Contract Revisions" page is re-designed to comply with the following rule. The first revision gets populated with the Phase Items assigned with the Vendor Contract. The next revisions get populated by copying contract revision items from the previous revision.

Lot Selection Packages

28. In the page "Lot Selection Choices", we added a header part with the following fields:

• Filter by House Area Code (allows for filtering choices by House Area)
• Total Price (of the package)
• Total Cost (of the package)

29. Fields "Item Description" and "Item Description 2" are editable in Lot Selection Choices.
30. The "Line No." field is numbered with an increment of 1000. The "Line No." for additional items is numbered with an increment of 1.
31. You cannot change "Item No." in the choice created for additional item.
32. The "Quantity" field gets populated by Model Item Allocations.

Enhancements

33. We added the ability to specify Model House Areas in a matrix view. Open the "Model House Area Matrix" page from the menu item HomeBuilder - Operations - Principle - Model House Area Matrix in role centers "HomeBuilder Executive" and "HomeBuilder Admin". You can also navigate to this page by using general Search.

Upon opening the page, run action "Show/Reload Matrix" to populate the matrix rows. You can apply filters on Phase and/or House Area prior to that.

After checking/unchecking the matrix checkboxes, run action "Apply House Areas".

34. Action "Measurement Matrix" is added to the pages "Models" and "Model Card". This action opens the "Model Measurement Matrix" which allows a user to set up Model House Area Measurements in the matrix view.

Upon opening the page, run action "Show/Reload Matrix" to populate the matrix rows. You can apply filters on House Area, Measurement Type and/or Unit of Measure prior to that.

After checking/unchecking the matrix checkboxes, run action "Apply Measurements".

35. New page "Send Deficiencies to Vendor" is added to allow a user to send "Deficiencies By Vendor" report to the vendors having outstanding deficiencies. Open this page from the menu item HomeBuilder - After-sales Service - Send Deficiencies to Vendors in the role centers "HomeBuilder Executive", "HomeBuilder Admin", and "HomeBuilder Inspector". You can also navigate to this page by using general Search.
36. The field "Default Picture compression, %" is added to the HomeBuilder Setup. This compression percentage will be applied to the pictures taken in Business Central. A user can override this compression percentage in the "My HomeBuilder Settings" page.
37. The new report "Installments Tracking" allows a user to track Lot Installments. You can open the report from the menu item HomeBuilder à Reports/Exports àInstallments Tracking in the role centers "HomeBuilder Executive" and "HomeBuilder Admin".
38. Actions "Construction Item Variants", "Phase Item Variants", and "Model Item Variants" are added to the pages "Service BOM Components", "Phase Item BOM Components", and "Model Item BOM Components" respectively.
39. Actions "Global Item Card" and "Global Item Variant" are added to the page "Global BOM Components".
40. Pages "Item Variants", "Phase Item Variants", and "Model Item Variants" have removable filters.
41. Actions "Validate Selected" and "Validate" are moved under menu "Related" in pages "Construction Items", "Construction Item Card", "Phase Items", "Phase Item Card", "Model Items", and "Model Item Card".

Corrections

42. The action "Push to Items" in the "House Areas" page pushes House Areas only to the Items with empty "House Area Group Code".