Where this fits
Before Stage 1 begins you have to tell ZeroCount which drawings to open. This happens in the Project View — the panel that lists your files grouped by service. The selection step doesn't really feel like a "stage" in the same way as Stages 1/2/3, but it's the gate that lets you into them.
If your project has one drawing, this step is invisible — that drawing is pre-selected and you go straight in. If you have several, the selection matters.
Selecting one drawing
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Open the project from the Projects dashboard.
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In the services and files panel, click the checkbox on the file you want to open.
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Click Submit in the bottom-right corner.
The drawing opens in Stage 1 (or Stage 2 if you've turned on Skip Stage 1 in your preferences — see User preferences).
Selecting several drawings
- 1
Tick the checkbox on each drawing you want to open.
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Click Submit .
The drawings are queued for review one after another. The first one — see below — opens in the editor; the others sit waiting in the breadcrumb's filename dropdown.
Which file opens first
When you tick multiple files, ZeroCount picks the one to open first like this:
- If you have a last-active file for this project, that one opens first.
- Otherwise, the topmost ticked file in service order opens.
The other ticked files become reachable via the filename dropdown in the breadcrumb — click the chevron next to the filename to switch between them. The ticks stay applied while you work; you don't need to re-tick when you come back.
See How ZeroCount remembers where you were.
Selecting across services
You can tick files from different services in the same Submit. Useful when:
- You want to work through a related set — say, every Lighting drawing on Levels 1–4.
- You're cross-referencing a layout against an RCP and want both open in adjacent tabs of the filename dropdown.
The services panel will collapse each service header into its own checkbox row, so you can tick a whole service in one click by clicking the service-level checkbox (if available) — or untick anything that shouldn't come along.
Empty Submit
If nothing is ticked, Submit is greyed out and you can't proceed. A toast appears if you try — "No File Selected — Please select a file before submitting."