May 15, 2026 10:41:17 AM

HomeBuilder Release Notes - 27.5 2026-03-24

HomeBuilder Release 27.5

Released 24th March 2026 · Build 27.5.20260324

Before you install, read the "HomeBuilder Release Notes Testing Advisory" for how to validate this release in your environment.

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What's new for HomeBuilder users

Décor Workflows

Selecting upgrades and extras with home buyers now lives in its own workflow, separate from your construction plan — so you can plan, assign, and track design conversations without losing them in the wider build schedule.

On the Construction Workflow Templates, Model Workflows, and Lot Workflows pages, you can now flag a workflow as part of the décor process by ticking the new Décor Workflow checkbox. When a Workflow Template is pushed down to Models and Lots, that designation travels with it automatically — set it once at the template level and the system carries it through.

At the task level, the new Décor Task checkbox on Lot Tasks and Workflow Tasks tells you which tasks belong to the décor process — handy for filters, reports, and assignments. The system fills it in for you when Lot Workflows are created, so you don’t have to tag tasks one by one.

To see your décor work at a glance, four new cues — clickable counts that open the underlying list — appear on the HomeBuilder Admin, HomeBuilder Executive, and HomeBuilder Décor Designer Role Centers:

Décor Workflows
Décor Tasks
Décor Tasks Not Completed
Décor Tasks Due This Month
Lot Planning Lines
Phase Planning Lines
Task Planning Lines
Inspection Planning Lines
Package Planning Lines
Planning Line Card

Click any of them to jump straight from your Role Center into the work that needs your attention.

Other enhancements

Email the Lot Key Date Analysis on a schedule. If you watch key dates across active lots, you no longer have to remember to run the report — schedule it once and the Excel file lands in your inbox (and anyone else’s who needs it) on a recurrence you choose.

To set this up:

Open the Lot Date Analysis Views page and tick the Send by Email checkbox on the view you want to send.
Run the Emails action on that view to add recipients. Their addresses then appear in the Email Addresses column so you can see at a glance who gets the report.
On the Job Queue Entries page, add a record, point it at Codeunit 70526186, and set the recurrence parameters you want.

Print purchaser information on Service Work Orders even before the lot closes. Until now, Service Work Orders hid purchaser information when the lot’s closing date had not yet occurred — which got in the way when you needed those details on the printout regardless. If you’d rather always show that information, turn on the Always Print Purchaser Information checkbox and Service Work Orders will print purchaser details whether the lot has closed or not.

Edit a Planning Line description in place — and have it follow through to the work order. When the wording on a Planning Line needs a tweak, you can now edit the Description field directly on these pages:

If the Planning Line is already on a work order, confirm your change and the system updates the description on the corresponding work order line for you — so the trade reads the same wording you do.

Leave longer notes on tasks. A new Comments column with multi-line editing now appears on Task Operations, Lot Task Operations, and Workflow Tasks — so you can capture instructions or context that wouldn’t fit in a one-line note.

Tighter security around setup tables. If you administer setup, your security admin can now grant two new permission sets — HB Setup Base and HB Setup Principal Records — instead of the broader permissions previously required to maintain setup data.

See how many lines are on each Purchase Order for Extras at a glance. The Purchase Orders for Extras page now shows a No. of Lines column and a matching cue, so when you scan a long list you can immediately see which POEs carry the most activity.

Read the Trade Extras report on every page. The Trade Extras report now repeats its header on every page. When you hand a multi-page printout to a trade, they keep their bearings instead of flipping back to page one.

Use Push to Lots without overwriting existing work by accident. When you push a Construction Item to lots and a Planning Line with the same Item No., Variant Code, and House Area Code already exists, you’ll now see a dialog asking what to do. Choose one of:

Update the unit cost on the existing Planning Line.
Add a new Planning Line.
Cancel the operation.

You decide — nothing is silently overwritten.

Corrections

POE Unit Cost now respects per-variant pricing for items costed Per Model/HA. If you’ve ever added a line to a POE and the Unit Cost looked wrong — pulling from the model item instead of the variant you actually selected — that’s fixed. When the item has a cost scope of Per Model/HA and the cost is defined per variant, the Unit Cost now comes from the Model Item Variant, so what you see on the POE matches what you set up.