Fieldwire Updates July - September 2020

  • Reese Parsons-Field

Overview & background

 

Fieldwire strives to be the most intuitive and powerful field management solution in the construction industry. We pride ourselves on continuously updating our platform with both innovative designs you won't find in any other application and by responding to our most consistent customer feedback with improvements to our existing products. We also value radical transparency, so this article includes a running list of the new and improved features we released this quarter. Please give us your own feedback on these updates as well as what you'd like to see us build next at support@fieldwire.com!

 

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Home (Account)

 

Option to Copy Tags when Cloning a Project (August)

As you figure out the ideal ways to configure your Fieldwire Projects for your company's workflows, cloning your Project(s) with the most optimized Categories, Checklists, Reports, and more becomes a huge shortcut. Our customers requested that we add Fieldwire Task Tags to the list of resources you can clone from existing Projects whenever you're creating a new one, so you can now to speed up your Project setup and standardize tagging across Projects with a single click!

  • Platform(s): Cloning Projects is an admin feature only available on Web (not on iOS/Android mobile apps) 
  • Subscriptions: All

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Tasks

 

Filter Tasks by Creator (August)

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Yet another feature we created due to popular demand by our customers, you now have the option to filter tasks by the user who created them, including yourself! You can use this filter in conjunction with any/all of our other Task Filters, which can be particularly helpful to isolate tasks created by you or a teammate during a particular site visit or punch walk, for instance.

  • Platform(s): Web
  • Subscriptions: All

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Forms

 

New Checkbox Options (August)

Previously, checkboxes in forms could only be empty or checked off as complete. Our customers told us they love having the additional options of "Not Complete" (the red 'x') and "Not Applicable" (the grey '-') in our Tasks Checklists and wanted to have the same options for their Forms Checklists. So now when you add a Checklist to any Form, whether in a List, Note, or Table section, you can click/tap once for complete, twice for incomplete, three times for not applicable, and four times to get back to empty.

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New Button to Update/Submit Forms at the Bottom of the Page (July)

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Our customers let us know that scrolling back to the top of our Forms in order to update their status to "Submitted", etc. after filling them out was counter-intuitive and a bit of a hassle. Now when you're filling out a Form, you'll find a new Update button at the very bottom, so you can change the status of any form and/or close it without having to scroll back to the top.

  • Platform(s): Web
  • Subscriptions: Business & Premier
  • Related Upcoming Releases: coming soon to iOS and Android!

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Files

 

All Files Size Limits Increased from 25Mb to 50Mb

Some of our customers let us know they wanted to upload larger Files hyperlinked on Plan, others requested a larger File size limit for Task attachments, and still others requested the same size limit increase for Files attached to Forms. We're never one to play favorites, so we increased the file size limit for ALL uploads to Fieldwire from 25Mb to 50 Mb across the board!    

  • Platform(s): All
  • Subscriptions: All

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BIM Viewer

 

3D Model Screenshots (August) 

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With our new Screenshot Tool, you can now capture as many images as you like directly from any view/zoom of your 3D Models to share with your team. All screenshots taken with this tool will automatically be saved in the Photos tab of your Project. From there, you can attach the photos to Tasks, Plans, and more and add additional context from the model to inform related work items.

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iOS & Android Apps

 

Magnifying Glass for Markups (September)

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We added a magnifying glass to zoom in on the area above your finger while you're drawing plan markups on our Mobile Apps. This feature is particularly handy when drawing measurements, as it allows you to precisely align the edge of the markup with lines on your plans. It's already available on Android (App Versions 9 and above) and is now available on iOS!

  • Platform(s): iOS and Android
  • Subscriptions: All

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Reorganized Left Menu & My Photos, Forms, and Files Filters (August)

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We reorganized the left menu in our iOS App to mirror the order of the tabs in our Web App. When you navigate to the Photos, Forms, and Files Tabs, you'll also see new default "My [Photos, Forms, or Files]" filters so it's 100% easier to keep track of the items you're adding to your Projects.

  • Platform(s): iOS and Android (already live on Web) 
  • Subscriptions: All

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Automatic Prompts to Update App (July)

Fieldwire is continuously updating our Android App with new features and improvements, which means we release a new version every couple of weeks. Now, you get a popup with a button to update your Android App to our latest version whenever you open the app, if (and only if) you're not already fully up-to-date. Just another way we're moving fast to improve our platform but also making it as easy as possible for you to access all our newest features on the fly. 

  • Platform(s): Android 
  • Subscriptions: All

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