The photo is on one person’s phone
The superintendent took forty pictures during a pour. Two weeks later the owner asks for the one with the rebar spacing, and the only copy is in a gallery that nobody else can search.
Photos on the jobsite
Construction photo documentation that keeps its date, place and record
Photos are the proof of progress, of conditions and of defects, and they are worth little when they sit in a phone gallery with no date, no place and no link to anything. The way to make them useful is to take them inside the record they belong to. In Fidrel you take the photo from the daily report or the inspection, and it stays with that record, its location and its history of changes.
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Why jobsite photos lose their value
Nothing says where or why
A photo named IMG_4821 shows a wall. It does not say which wall, on which floor or why it was taken, and the person who knew has moved to another job.
Photos and reports are filed apart
The written report is in one folder and the pictures in another. When a dispute comes, the team assembles the story from both by hand.
What makes a photo useful later
A photo is evidence when four things travel with it: the date, the place, what it shows and why it was taken. A good habit is one sentence in the report that names the element, such as the north stair on level two, before the pictures are added. Take one wide shot to show where you are and one close shot to show the detail, and in the case of a defect, include something in the frame that gives the scale. These habits are free, and they are worth more than any filing system.
Site & daily log
Where photos can be attached in Fidrel
The Take photo button sits in the Files & photos block of the records in the site area: the daily report, inspections, NCRs and change orders, as well as meetings. A failed inspection becomes an NCR with one tap and the photos stay with the inspection, while Create NCR from a daily report links the two in both directions. Photographs that belong to the project as documents are uploaded into a folder instead, where the viewer can rotate an image and save the rotated copy as a new version.
How to keep photos with their record in Fidrel
Step 1
Open the record on your phone
Open the daily report or the inspection in your phone’s browser. There is no app to install. Fill in the work area or location, so the photo has a place before you take it.
Step 2
Take the photo from the record
Under Files & photos choose Take photo. The phone’s camera opens, and you can add several files at once. Images, PDF, Word, Excel, text or ZIP files up to 25 MB each can be added.
Step 3
Read the thumbnails in the record
The photos appear as thumbnails in the record, next to the text, the location and the history of changes. Every change to the record is logged with name and time, and a daily report cannot be deleted.
Step 4
Find them again by day, place or company
Daily reports are listed day by day with the most recent first. Search by title and filter by author, location, company, date and status to reach the photos of one area or one week.
Who can see the photos
Photos follow the record they are attached to. The people who can open the project’s daily log can see its photos, and access to folders is set per folder. A guest reads and downloads but cannot change a record. If the pictures show something confidential, put them in a folder restricted to administrators or selected members.
What photo documentation in Fidrel does not do
Photos are not tagged automatically: the date, the location and the subject come from the record they sit in. Fidrel has no 360 capture, drone or time-lapse tools, no photo comparison over time and no pins on a plan. There is no offline mode, so a photo taken without a connection has to be added again once you are back online.
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Frequently asked questions
Anything else on your mind? We are happy to help.
Talk to usYes. Open the daily report in your phone’s browser and choose Take photo, which opens the camera. You can add several files at once, up to 25 MB each.
Take them inside a daily report or inspection that has a work area or location. Reports are listed day by day, and you can filter by author, location, company, date and status.
No. The date, the location and the subject come from the record the photo sits in, which you fill in. The record is where the photo gets its context.
A daily report cannot be deleted, and every change to it is logged field by field with name and time. Nothing in the record can quietly change afterward.
You can, but Fidrel does not compare them. It stores each week’s photos with its report; the side-by-side comparison of photos from different weeks is still done by you.
The record is saved, but the attachment may be missing, and Fidrel says so. Add the photo again once you are back online, because a photo taken without a connection is not kept.