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Product Update: Reporting Special

August 11, 2017May 23, 2017 by simon

Creating reports is a necessary but time consuming task. At BaseStone we believe that engineers shouldn’t have to spend half of their time creating reports. Our latest reporting features help to reduce the admin burden by letting you generate bespoke reports in one click.

New features:

Timestamped photos on reports (web & mobile)
Report options to include/exclude (web & mobile):
- Attachments
- Comments
- Callouts
- Photos
- Signatures
Select issues across multiple drawings to include in report (web & mobile)

Here’s how to create a typical report on BaseStone with our new reporting functionality:

Create issues on BaseStone

Open the BaseStone mobile app and record snags, site observations or notes from the site
Add tags and photos to the issues. Mark up the drawing to show the location
If needed, assign the item to a team member
Use our signature functionality to sign off the item

Select the issues to include in the report

Navigate to the project and ‘Issues’ tab
Use the tags/filters to select the issues to include in the report (e.g. select the high priority and ‘open’ items, or select all items tagged as a ‘snag’). Or select the items using the tick boxes on the left to include (web only).
Click ‘Create Report’

Customise the content of the report

Choose whether to create a CSV report (to be imported into excel) or a PDF report
Customise the content by including/excluding attachments, comments, callouts (on the drawing), photos and signatures

Download this example report created on BaseStone

Have a more productive day with BaseStone! We hope you enjoy using our new reporting functionality, let us know if you have any feedback.

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Introducing Electronic Sign-off

September 1, 2017March 30, 2017 by simon

Assuring quality and resolving issues are critical to the delivery of any successful project. At BaseStone, we want to help engineers be as productive as possible, using our digital platform to record and assist in achieving your deliverables.

That’s why, in support of this, we’re proud to announce our latest feature: “Electronic Sign-off”.

With Electronic Sign-off, any number of engineers, managers, or construction professionals can now sign-off against any issue within BaseStone, with full date and time stamp auditing to show exactly when they gave their “seal of approval”. To streamline the sign-off process, any user within the account can “sign-off” an issue and they will receive a receipt of their signature to their email address.

Compared to traditional paper-signatures, Electronic Sign-off provides a permanent record, not only on the issue, but also on reports created. Any revoked signatures are also fully date and time-stamped against the issue providing protection against the risk of forgery.

Our Electronic Sign-off, as well as any other attachment to an issue (such as file, photo, or comment), is now also highlighted upon the closed issue card, providing engineers with an at-a-glance summary of the contents of that issue, without the need to open it.

The same is true upon the issues page of a project, where issues across all drawings within the project can be seen.

We have plans to add further functionality to our Electronic Sign-off but first want to hear back from our users!

If you want to be involved within one of our User Groups and input into the future developments and future plans for the BaseStone platform, get in touch using the link below!

BaseStone’s latest mobile release is now available

July 3, 2017November 16, 2016 by

Major new release version 3 now available

Winter is coming and as our developers rejoice seeing less sunlight, they recently surfaced from their BatCave to show us the latest version of the BaseStone mobile platform.

The latest release includes updates to our web, iPad and iPhone applications. Here are the highlights:

Improved Data Matrix and QR code functionality

On the iPad and iPhone applications, you can now scan QR and Data Matrix codes more easily and select the data to become the issue title. This is an huge enhancement to both snagging and asset-tagging processes on BaseStone. And new code lookup functionality will be coming soon!

Business Collaborator Integration

We’re delighted to announce our latest integration available on the BaseStone web application. If you’re using Business Collaborator, you can now import the files seamlessly onto BaseStone. Get in touch with us to discuss more.

Optional save to camera roll

We receive concerns from many of our users about storage on mobile devices so we make every endeavour to minimise the amount of space BaseStone takes up. Small and mighty is what we aim for. The latest release on the iphone lets you choose whether to save the photo to the camera roll or not to help control space on your device.

The key features already existing on the application include the ability to:

Conduct site inspections
Snag and report progress
Markup/annotate and redline drawings
Create as-builts
View and add photos, RFIs, files, comments
Quality inspections
Report defects
Site survey inspections

These features give the user benefits such as:

Everyone has access to the latest drawing, plan and information in the field
Improve productivity
Reduce paper and printing costs
Ensure issues are captured accurately
Create reports instantly, no need to copy up notes from the field
Visibility of issues on site
Reduce mistakes and abortive work

It has been a busy period for the team as only last month we were “Highly Commended” at the British Construction Industry Awards and also had a great time at Digital Construction Week which included a talk by our CEO Alex as well as exhibiting. Our CTO Simon also discussed BaseStone and Building Information Modelling at an event organised by 3D Repo to kick off Digital Construction Week.

If you would like to know more or have a specific question about BaseStone, click here and we would be happy to have a chat.

If you would like a free trial of the BaseStone application, click here.