Corrupted ACI Sketch....

[RCA]

I just left another long message with tech support trying to explain that 10 employees working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, working Staggered schedules costs essentially the same as if they all work the SAME MOTHER ****ING SCHEDULE and customer service, and corresponding revenue would be enhanced for an entity whose customers work round the clock, with productivity already affected by the unavailability of the bureaucracy regardless of the mayors n city managers who I advised to get off their fat ****ing asses to work the phones if their staff need 3 or 4 or Never ****ing days to return my voice message! [ i am hoping my profanity helps although I realized recently that a GPS system gets confused if the user includes the term "Mother ****ing" along with the actual address being sought.....]

Well, I can say Alamode was never like that, at least that I can recall.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

I would copy and paste the jpg image of another sketch into your report on an image page. You would need to first convert the other pdf sketch into a jpg.

The sketch function won't work to revise an existing sketch or to create a new sketch in a new report. Now the error is "unhandled exception." Absolutely amazing in my opinion is that ChatGPT is so familiar with ACI that it devoted about 2 hours on Sat attempting various fixes that eventually lead to the refusal.of OneDrive to allow permission to the sketch download, although I bailed like I had been beat down long before GPT gave up

 

[Tom D]

If no one else has a problem with it, then it isn't the program. It's possible a corrupt ACI file, or a conflict with windows. Now it becomes a nightmare finding the needle in that hay stack.
Way in the beginning alamode was a bit quirky. And at times it would create an unsolvable problem. Many times i would have to completely remove total, not just repair it. Then reload everything again. At first you would have lost all your photos and quicklists. Total knew this was happening, they eventually formulated a backup of all the important stuff. Then it became easy to remove total and reinstall it again.

I'm surprised you don't have a backup computer. That would have told you if it was only one that 1 computer having that problem. I won't go into all the items you should check on the computer, if you haven't played around with dos, it's like a needle in da haystack search.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

If no one else has a problem with it, then it isn't the program. It's possible a corrupt ACI file, or a conflict with windows. Now it becomes a nightmare finding the needle in that hay stack.
Way in the beginning alamode was a bit quirky. And at times it would create an unsolvable problem. Many times i would have to completely remove total, not just repair it. Then reload everything again. At first you would have lost all your photos and quicklists. Total knew this was happening, they eventually formulated a backup of all the important stuff. Then it became easy to remove total and reinstall it again.

I'm surprised you don't have a backup computer. That would have told you if it was only one that 1 computer having that problem. I won't go into all the items you should check on the computer, if you haven't played around with dos, it's like a needle in da haystack search.

I think that ACI now requires a separate license for each computer rather than the previous option to include multiple license in a single contract.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

If no one else has a problem with it, then it isn't the program. It's possible a corrupt ACI file, or a conflict with windows. Now it becomes a nightmare finding the needle in that hay stack.
Way in the beginning alamode was a bit quirky. And at times it would create an unsolvable problem. Many times i would have to completely remove total, not just repair it. Then reload everything again. At first you would have lost all your photos and quicklists. Total knew this was happening, they eventually formulated a backup of all the important stuff. Then it became easy to remove total and reinstall it again.

I'm surprised you don't have a backup computer. That would have told you if it was only one that 1 computer having that problem. I won't go into all the items you should check on the computer, if you haven't played around with dos, it's like a needle in da haystack search.

But why oh why do we rely on one type of form for lending and another for non-lending? Why doesn't the "appraisal industry" rather than the "primary intended user" provide the forms we rely upon? Why are the forms and the corresponding reporting protocol based upon the type of form we are required to use? That would create a standardized reporting protcol throughout the industry, and eliminate the need to rely on various, competing vendors to provide reports that we must pay for????

 

[RCA]

Removed

 

[cashcatz]

They don't import spreadsheets. Everytime I've asked Bradford over the past 18+ years or so, he shows no interest.

What do you mean by "import spreadsheets"? What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[RCA]

What do you mean by "import spreadsheets"? What are you trying to accomplish?

I use R and earth (MARS) to create my Sales Grid. Of course, "MY" RCA Sales Grid has extra columns for Value Contributions. But I drop those on importing my Sales Grid into Alamode's Sales Grid. I attach my RCA Sales Grid into the Addenda to support my adjustments. So, Alamode has the functionality to take a spreadsheet you upload and allow you to map the cells from your spreadsheet into its grid. Once you get the mapping setup, you can reuse if for other appraisals, even if they have a different number of comps and subjective features that you break out of the residuals. It worksk pretty well. My R program will run MARS, create the RCA Sales Grid and then create a special Sales Grid for import into Alamode. It is all automated - so it is very fast and I can easily do it again and again, if making improvements. The R program also generates all the other supporting tables, diagrams and graphs.

I don't muck around with the Alamode Sales Grid, except to do some minor touch-ups, after everything is loaded.

 

[cashcatz]

I use R and earth (MARS) to create my Sales Grid. Of course, "MY" RCA Sales Grid has extra columns for Value Contributions. But I drop those on importing my Sales Grid into Alamode's Sales Grid. I attach my RCA Sales Grid into the Addenda to support my adjustments. So, Alamode has the functionality to take a spreadsheet you upload and allow you to map the cells from your spreadsheet into its grid. Once you get the mapping setup, you can reuse if for other appraisals, even if they have a different number of comps and subjective features that you break out of the residuals. It worksk pretty well. My R program will run MARS, create the RCA Sales Grid and then create a special Sales Grid for import into Alamode. It is all automated - so it is very fast and I can easily do it again and again, if making improvements. The R program also generates all the other supporting tables, diagrams and graphs.

I don't muck around with the Alamode Sales Grid, except to do some minor touch-ups, after everything is loaded.

That's pretty neat, any idea if that is possible in Appraise-It Pro? That have an extensive plugin system that is scriptable: https://api.sfrep.com/scriptsdocs/intro.html

 

[RCA]

That's pretty neat, any idea if that is possible in Appraise-It Pro? That have an extensive plugin system that is scriptable: https://api.sfrep.com/scriptsdocs/intro.html

Grok or ChatGPT told me that they didn't see any option to import spreadsheets into the sales grid, with SF Prep. But look, Alamode is larger and it saves on software engineer salaries - at least in Oklahoma (They do have a branch in Utah, I believe), SFPrep of course is in Louisiana where salaries are likely even lower. But why would I want to use SFPrep, when all of my old appraisals are on Alamode?