Quirks and Bugs

Clint, I don't know of a resource like what you describe.About your questions on shading, could you point to a couple specific examples that we could help decode?

Being tied to Internet Explorer, Flash, and Adobe's copy protected form system is a big pain at my end. Depending on our Team members' hardware and software, I'm spending a lot of time just getting LEED Online working for everyone. In an ideal world, everyone has IE 8, Flash, and Windows all up to date. In reality, this is not the case. I understand USGBC needs to protect their copyrights, but having to learn a new browser (IE) is onerous. You should support Chrome and Firefox ASAP, and use open standards instead of PDF. Not to mention Mac OSX support... Just my opinion!

Peter, very good observations.I want to make one clarification—when you address USGBC, saying "you should...." in your comment it makes me wonder if you think that this website (LEEDuser.com) is part of USGBC. It's important to us that people know that we're an independent site offering support to LEED teams.

Good point, Tristan. Looking back on my post, it was clearly written after a long morning of wrangling consultants and doing basic computer support! "You" statements are always dangerous, and I didn't mean to cast that net too wide. I'll be more careful with my words. I will say that one of the great things about this site is that it seems USGBC is at least listening to the comments here. (I'm also noting I accidentally replied to an unrelated thread instead of starting a new one...)

I learned of such a matrix just today. It's downloadable as an Excel workbook here: https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=9300 I actually logged in here today in the hope LeedUser might have written instructions on how to use this "Form Data Matrix," because it's not intuitive to me.

Very true - It's not intuitive, and I haven't seen any instructions. The first tip I'd offer is to expand the plus sign "+" in the far left edge of the worksheets - start with that and post back with any questions....