QTO - What is What?

Recently I was asked some general comments about QTO, so I felt this was a good topic to discuss. Below are the questions I was asked:

1.  What items can you assign pay items to?  Besides assigning payitems to pipe networks and code sets for example, you can also assign to polylines, blocks and text.  I like to assign a driveway demolition payitem to asphalt removal text so I can track the number of driveways to reconstruct.

2.  What happens to an object like a polyline if you break it into more than one piece?  The payitem is assigned to both pieces and would and the report would still show the proper quantity.

3.  Can you assign more than one payitem at a time to a given object?  Hitting control and selecting the appropriate payitems will allow you to assign the appropriate amount to a given object.  A good example would be areas that will need seeding, mulching, and stabilizing.

4.  Can we have a payitem calculate the area for example in some other type of measure than what is in the payitem file?  The formula option within each payitem row allows for other calculations to take place such as cubic yards instead as oposed to cubic feet.