Does anyone have or know of a matrix that shows what fields are related to what forms? The data you include in a PI form or Prerequisite, populates fields throughout the credit forms. The problem is that if you miss a field in some connected space, your credit will show 0 points achieved even if you have met all the requirements. Because the forms are so interdependent and the formulas are hidden, there is no way to figure out what is either missing or not achieving the threshold you are looking for. It seems like I am spending way too much time reviewing forms to figure out what is missing. There should be some kind of flag, highlight, or error message that tells you what field is not filled out or has incorrect values. Does anyone know why some parts of the form are green, some gray, and some yellow? Do those colors mean something? I understand that the white or unshaded boxes are calculated values. Some forms have green shading for user entered data, and some green. What is the rational behind this? Then there are seemingly random yellow highlighted text areas. Any thoughts?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11474 thumbs up
December 28, 2010 - 6:48 pm
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?
Peter Kennedy
LEED AP, GreenPoint RaterBright Green Strategies
72 thumbs up
January 26, 2011 - 3:01 pm
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!
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11474 thumbs up
January 27, 2011 - 5:35 pm
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.
Peter Kennedy
LEED AP, GreenPoint RaterBright Green Strategies
72 thumbs up
January 31, 2011 - 12:44 pm
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...)
Amanda Redmond-Neal
49 thumbs up
July 18, 2011 - 7:25 pm
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.
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
1976 thumbs up
July 18, 2011 - 8:05 pm
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....