Role guide
A construction document controller receives, registers, distributes and archives the project’s documents and keeps superseded sheets out of use. This page follows that day task by task and says which part Fidrel does, which part it supports and which part stays with you.
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A revised sheet goes out, but a foreman keeps working from the printout or the attachment already on the phone. The controller hears about it when the work does not fit, not when the revision was issued.
Months later a recipient says a sheet never arrived. Without a record of the exact revision sent, to whom and when, the controller has an email thread to point to and little else.
When the drawing index lives in a spreadsheet beside the files, every upload is entered twice, and the index is only as current as the last person who remembered to update it.
Receiving and registering is the part Fidrel does most of: one folder structure, a revision history on every document, and a drawing register that lists number, title, revision, status and revision date by discipline. Reviewing is shared with the team, since reviews and RFIs run in the same project. Distributing is the transmittal, with a number such as TR-001, a purpose, a list of recipients and the documents at the revision that was current when it went out. Archiving is a status, Archived, plus the folder structure itself; a file deleted by mistake can be restored for 30 days.
Documents, drawings & models
The approved statuses, Approved, Issued for construction and Record (as-built), can only be set by a project administrator or by a member who is a document controller. Everyone else sees them greyed out with a note. Each change can carry a comment, and the status history shows the status, the date and the name for every step, so an issued-for-construction sheet can be traced to the person who released it.
Step 1
Drop incoming files into the right folder with Upload. Fidrel reads the number, title and revision from the file name, so a file with an existing number becomes the next revision of that document, and an identical file is skipped.
Step 2
Lock a folder or a single document to selected people. Everyone who can open a file gets a notification when it is uploaded, and an email unless they have turned that off.
Step 3
Open the document and choose its Status, from Working and For review to Approved, Issued for construction or Record (as-built). Add a comment on the change if you like; the status history keeps every step.
Step 4
Choose New transmittal, pick the documents, add the recipients and a purpose such as For review, and issue it. The transmittal locks, and each recipient gets a personal link that needs no account.
Step 5
Watch the log for Opened and Not opened, open Who holds which revision to see who still has the old sheet, and use Tell the recipients their revisions were replaced when a newer revision goes out.
The drawing register can show the current revision only or all revisions, with earlier ones marked Superseded, and two revisions of a PDF or image can be compared as an overlay or side by side. A transmittal takes only shared or published revisions, so work in progress stays in the project. When a revision is replaced, the log shows which recipients still hold the old one, and Fidrel can email them that their revisions were replaced. It cannot reach a printout somebody already pinned to a wall.
Fidrel does not route a document through automatic approval chains, and there are no sequential approval steps. There is no e-signature, so a signature collected on paper or in another tool stays outside Fidrel. Fidrel has no scanning or printing workflow: a transmittal prints from the browser, and paper copies are yours to log. Fidrel does not decide who ought to approve a document either: that is a call for you and the project administrators.
Your trial applies to your first own project and starts when that project is created. No card required. Afterwards, choose card or invoice to continue.
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Read moreNo. A review has participants and a deadline, and each participant approves or requests changes, but there is no chain in which one step releases the next. The status of the document is set by someone who may set it.
A project administrator, or a member who is a document controller. Other members see those statuses disabled in the list and are told that it takes an administrator or a document controller.
The transmittal log shows Sent, Opened or Not opened for each recipient, recipients can confirm receipt on their page, and Who holds which revision lists the latest revision each of them was sent.
No. Each recipient gets an email with a personal link, valid for 30 days, to a page where they download the documents. The link is the credential, so it should only go to the person it was made for.
For drawings, yes: the drawing register lists number, title, revision, status and revision date, and exports to Excel. Other documents are found by folder, search and the filters on the document list.
Deleted files and folders can be restored for 30 days. Version history on a document stays with it, so earlier revisions are not lost when a newer one is uploaded.
