Trimble Business Center

Hi Everyone, First off, Trimble thank you for addressing an improvement for the flags pane.  I am currently using it and seeing what options are available.

After a few minutes, I can tell that it is an improvement over what we had before.  Thank you.

Our goal with each addition of the Access job files from the day of field surveying, is to ask the folks who import that day of data be responsible for reconciling as many of the flags as they possibly can that were created by the data imported from that day's job file.  Sometimes this is the project surveyor doing the import and sometimes it is the party chief.  Regardless, it is critical not to let flags and warning pile up and we want them addressed.  

The previous flag pane didn't not leave many options beyond memorizing which remaining flags were considered low priority and which we couldn't resolve and which may throw some level of doubt on our measurements overall accuracy within itself.

Now, we can program in our own values for as many different types of flags as we would want to create and that let's us only focus on the new ones.  

Before, we would change the project settings to make tilt error flags go away, or mean angle errors.  Now we can look at each of those and group them into a category that let's us remember that as related to the project, those warning are not material, or however you want to explain that.

My only further request, would be to be able to turn those off visually, so a list of 200 tilt sensor warnings doesn't over whelm the view while we look for the warnings that reveal a 1.4 foot rod bust, or prism constant slip up.  We can turn them off visually in plan and 3d view, but not in list view and it would be awesome to be able to turn them off in list view also.

Regardless, great job.  I appreciate the hard work Trimble team.  Thank you for listening.  That means alot.

This is a great request, and I second it.

Not to undermine the previous request, but I would even be satisfied with adding a "suppressed" state to the generic flag object and a display toggle at the flags pane. Maybe even add an "accepted" state? I'm happy to go through my projects and suppress the occasional MTA H residual = 0d01'27.2" flag that's reporting on an observation along a 7 foot long slope distance.

Hey Andy, 

Ditto.  I think there are a few ways.  It is a very good improvement.  Your suggestion aligns with my wish for a bit further refinement.  A way to "hide" some of the LIST of flags.

Hi Clayton,

Unless i am misunderstanding your request, you can turn off the different category's of flags in the view filter manager under the "Flag" group.

Hopefully this is what you mean.

Hi Andrew, 

I am aware of that added feature, and using that "hides" the flag in plan and 3d views, but not in the summary "LIST" flag pane.

See screen shot.  Flags turned off don't show in plan space, but are still listed in LIST flag pane.

Hello Trimble Folks,

I have a question for Trimble or anyone that may know more than me.  Our survey team was really excited for the improvement to the flag management options.  Woot, Go Trimble Team.  Now, as we have updated to TBC 2026.10 and have the more robust flag manager built into our templates, each new project will have all the flag categories we have programmed into our templated.

The issue, the many, many TBC projects that pre date 2026.10 don't have this flag option list.  Is there a way to import these? Like what you could do with a layer manager, or something similar, or a feature code library.  It is time consuming to have to add all of them to each old project.  

I tried to merge TBC projects, and it doesn't bring the list along.

I appreciate the feedback. 

CB