How best to add user defined clauses within NBS is a question I quite often get asked when speaking with specifiers. I thought it may be worth doing a short blog post that looks at this for both section-based and system-based content structures.
1. Section-based content
‘Section-based content’ is pretty much any content that is not Uniclass 2015 technical specification content. So this includes UK CAWS, Aus content such as Speedpack and Specpack and also the Canadian CMS and NMS content.
To add a new user clause, this can be done from the ‘three dot’ menu to the left in the editor. Then the new clause can be given a number, a title and spec content can be added.
Note that for some content sets the number will be automatically applied. For the UK CAWS content (or UK Uniclass 2015 PM content) a number must be added to determine the position in the section.
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| Insert new clause |
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| Add a clause number, title and add your specification content |
To add an entirely new section, this can be done by…