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Gary Christensen

For over 20 years Gary Christensen has been assisting in the development of, supporting, and teaching construction industry software. Gary is the Senior Customer Experience Educator at BSD and holds the Construction Document Technologist (CDT) certification from the Construction Specification Institute (CSI).

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  • Utilizing Master RIB Report Tags

    Overview Report tags are used to determine which paragraphs will appear in a selected report. For example, a paragraph tagged with the "SD" tag will appear in the Shop Drawings report. SpecLink Clo...

  • Managing User Role Permissions

    OverviewSpecLink Cloud has six default user roles. The System Manager role is the only one to have the ability to view and edit the permissions of these roles.This article will cover the following ...

  • Global Terms

    Overview Global Terms allow for the specifier to replace common project terms such as the Project Name, the Owner's Actual Name, and the Project Completion Date throughout the project with terms re...

  • Utilizing Views & View Tags

    Overview Every paragraph within the RIB Master is tagged to appear in one of three views. Views are intended to make the operation of activating sections faster by presenting the most important or ...

  • Project Notes

    Overview Project Notes are user-added notes that the specifier has entered to communicate information to others involved in the project. Adding Project Notes Users can add project notes to any para...

  • SpecLink Cloud System Requirements

    Overview Currently SpecLink Cloud contains tools that are accessed both from the web in a browser, in the same manner you are reading this now, and installed software, specifically the Virtual Mode...

  • Master Notes

    Overview Master Notes are created by the RIB Content team and include additional information regarding the correlating paragraph. Master notes are not editable by the user. Viewing Master Notes A p...

  • Importing a Word Document (DOCX or DOC) Specification Section

    OverviewSpecification section Word documents in DOCX or DOC format can be imported into SpecLink Cloud.  This article will cover the following: Steps to Import a Word Document (DOCX or DOC) Specifi...

  • Linking Basics

    Overview Links are the way SpecLink Cloud changes the status of related paragraphs and/or choices when you select text. They are a powerful productivity tool for improving project coordination, aut...

  • Basic Editing

     Overview The tools for basic editing within a specification section include: Modifying a Master Paragraph Retaining Master Content Deleting User Modifications Adding a User Paragraph Deleting a U...