Understanding Building Constants Models
This chapter provides an overview of building constants models and discusses how to update building constant records using a model.
Understanding Building Constants Models
After you create the building constant records to use for the budget revisions, you might need to revise them. For example, you might need to change the fee percentage that you assigned or the growth pattern. Instead of modifying each building constant record manually, you can set up a model building constant record and then copy the changes to selected building constant records.
You use the AREF Building Constants Models program (P15L1001) to set up model building constant records, and then you use the AREF Building Constants program (P15L100) to locate the model and the building constant records that you want to update, and to copy the changes from the model to the selected records.
You follow the same steps to add a model building constant that you do to enter an actual building constant record. With the exception of the Revision Number, Initial Purchase Price and Year for Stabilized NOI fields, which are specific to a building, the forms and fields that you use to enter the building constants model record are the same as those that you use to enter the building constant record.
See Setting Up Building Constants.
When you copy the model to the selected building constant records, a processing option setting for the AREF Building Constants program determines whether the system copies only information from the model to blank fields on the building constant records or whether the system replaces the information on the building constant record with information from the model. If you choose to replace information, the system copies the values from all of the fields on the model, including blank, to the corresponding fields on the building constant record.
Prerequisites
Before you complete the tasks in this section:
Follow the steps that are used to set up a building constant record to set up a model building constant record.
Verify that the processing option Replace Data When Copying Models for the AREF Building Constants program (P15L100) is set appropriately for the information that you want to update.
Updating Building Constant Records Using a Model
This section describes how to:
Set processing options for AREF Building Constants Models (P15L1001).
Update building constant records using a model.
Forms Used to Revise Building Constant Records
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Form Name |
FormID |
Navigation |
Usage |
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AREF Building Constants Model Revisions |
W15L1001B |
AREF Setup (G15L412), AREF Building Constants Models Click Add on the Work With AREF Building Constants Models form. |
Add building constants models. |
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Work With AREF Building Constants |
W15L100A |
AREF Setup (G15L412), AREF Building Constants |
Revise building constant records using a model. |
Setting Processing Options for the AREF Building Constants Models Program (P15L1001)
Processing options enable you to specify the default processing for programs and reports.
Defaults
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1. Retain Values After Add |
Specify whether the system retains the values entered in these fields when you add more than one building constant record:
Values are: Blank: Do not retain values. 1: Retain values. |
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2. Assumption Action |
Specify the default value to assign to the Assumption Action (AACT) field when you add a model record for building constants. |
Versions
Use these processing options to specify the version of the program to use when the program is accessed from a Row or Form menu.
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1. AREF Building Constants (P15L100) |
Specify the version of the AREF Building Constants program (P15L100) to use when you select Copy Model from the Form menu. If you leave this processing option blank, the system uses ZJDE0001. |
Updating Building Constant Records Using a Model
Access the Work With AREF Building Constants form.
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Building Constants Model |
Enter the alphanumeric code that specifies the name or identifies the building constants model. |