Revision marks that mean different things
Your office writes C02, the contractor’s register says Rev 3, and the upload was named by someone else. Two numbering habits on one sheet make it hard to say which set a question is about.
For architects and engineers
Drawing issue and revisions for architects
A design team issues revisions all project long, and the questions that come back are always the same: who received this one, and did it replace the earlier sheet? This page follows the architect’s or engineer’s side of an issue in Fidrel: what you upload, what you can and cannot set yourself, how a transmittal goes out and what it shows afterwards.
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What goes wrong on the issuing side
An issue with no proof of arrival
A set sent by email or a shared folder leaves you with a sent message, not a record of who opened it or who confirmed it. When a dispute starts, that gap is yours.
Replaced sheets that stay in use
A new revision does not reach the person who printed the last one. Unless somebody tells them, the replaced sheet is still the one they work from.
What the transmittal checks for you
The purpose decides which revisions may go: For information, For coordination, For review, For approval, Issued for construction (IFC) or As-built record. Only shared or published revisions are issued; work in progress and archived revisions stay in the project, and Fidrel names the files it refused. For construction only approved revisions and construction issues are sent, and as record only as-built revisions. A mistake in the purpose therefore shows up before the set leaves, not after.
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What you can read afterwards
For every recipient the register lists the document, the revision they were sent, when it was sent, when it was opened and when it was confirmed. A revision that a newer one has replaced reads Replaced by that revision. The recipient confirms receipt on the shared page with a name, and the first confirmation is kept. The transmittal itself carries a number such as TR-001 and prints from the browser, so a copy for the file is one click away.
How an issue goes out
Step 1
Upload the revision as you number it
Put the revision in the file name or type it in the upload row; a revision you write, such as C02, is kept exactly as written. A file with an existing number becomes the next version of that document, and the earlier versions stay with their dates.
Step 2
Ask for the status you need
Only Approved, Issued for construction and Record (as-built) are held back for an administrator or a document controller. Ask the controller to release the set before you issue it for construction, and say in the comment on the change what the set is for.
Step 3
Compose the transmittal
Choose New transmittal, write the Subject, pick the Purpose and the documents with their revisions, then add recipients one per line as Name, Company, email, or choose them from the contact register or from the project.
Step 4
Issue it and send the links
Issue locks the transmittal. Send to recipients emails each recipient who has an address a personal download link, valid for 30 days, and the list then shows each one as Sent, Opened or Not opened, and Confirmed with a date.
Step 5
When the next revision comes
Make a new transmittal with the current revisions, open Who holds which revision to see who still has the old one, and use Tell the recipients their revisions were replaced. Each recipient hears of each new revision once.
What issuing does not do
The record shows what you sent and who confirmed it; it does not decide whether an issue meets a requirement in your agreement, which is a question for the agreement and your counsel. The notice that a revision was replaced goes only to recipients of earlier transmittals, and only when you choose Tell the recipients their revisions were replaced. A DWG sheet is stored and viewed in Fidrel, not edited there. Drawing review, with markups and an outcome, is a separate routine on its own page.
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Frequently asked questions
Anything else on your mind? We are happy to help.
Talk to usNo. Only shared or published revisions are issued, and Fidrel tells you which files it refused for the purpose you chose. Share the revision first, then issue it.
An administrator or a member who is a document controller. As the design team you ask for the release, and the transmittal for construction then carries only approved revisions and construction issues.
No. Each recipient gets a personal link by email, valid for 30 days, and opens the transmittal and downloads the files without signing in. The link is the credential, so it should not be forwarded.
On the shared page they type their name and press Confirm receipt. The page then reads Receipt confirmed with the date, and your list shows Confirmed against that recipient.
Yes. Type the person on a line as Name, Company, email, or pick them from the contact register. A recipient without an email address can be listed, but gets no link by email.