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Accessing Under-The-Hood (U-T-H)



Before working with the PlanSwift API, a good understanding of PlanSwift's the internal structure is recommended. To  To review PlanSwift's the structure, the underUnder-theThe-hood Hood (U-T-H) tab needs to be enabled. This section describes how to enable the U-T-H tab in order to access the internal structure of PlanSwift.



Warning

By modifying or changing anything in the back end, you may adversely affect the operation of

PlanSwift

the application. Modifications should be done in a read-only mode. If any modifications are done to the back end

of PlanSwift

, those modifications will be lost when

PlanSwift

the application is re-installed.

Follow these steps to enable PlanSwift's under-the-hoodthe Under-The-Hood U-T-H tab.

  1. Open PlanSwift.

  2. Click on Settings along the top ribbon bar (see  #1 on Figure 1

    -1

    below).

  3. Select Interface from the options on the left (see #2 on Figure

    1-

    1 below).

  4. Click on Show Under the Hood Screen. (see #3 on Figure

    1-

    1 below).

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  5. For the password, please contact your PlanSwift representative or send an email

    to devnetwork@planswift

    to takeoff@constructconnect.com.

    .

    Enter the password (see number #4 of Figure 1

    -1

    ) and click on Ok. 

  6. An U-T-H (for "Under-the-Hood") tab now appears on the top ribbon bar (see the red arrow in Figure

    1-

    2). Click on U-T-H.

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Understanding the Under-The-Hood hierarchy

7. Clicking on U-T-H tab displays the Under-The-Hood (U-T-H) hierarchy (Figure 3). PlanSwift

(1.0) is

 is the root, or the parent object. Each of the folders beneath PlanSwift is a child of PlanSwift. 

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