Written at the truck from memory
By six o’clock the crew count, the deliveries and the weather are a guess, and the photos are somewhere in a camera roll under two hundred others.
For superintendents
Daily log for superintendents
A superintendent writes the day down once, or in pieces as it goes: weather, who was on site, what got done, what went wrong and the photos that show it. This page follows that routine in Fidrel’s daily log from a phone, and says what the report holds, what it leaves out and who can read and change it.
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Why the daily log gets written late
One paragraph for four readers
The owner’s representative wants the weather and the delays, the project manager wants the head count, and the quality manager wants the one thing that went wrong. A single paragraph serves none of them well.
A report that can be rewritten unseen
A daily log is worth something only if a late edit can be seen. A report kept in a shared document can be changed without anyone knowing it was.
Who can read your report, and who can change it
Daily reports live in the Site & daily log part of the project. A member who has been given that part can read every report in it; a member given other parts only does not see it, and a project administrator decides which parts each person gets. A member with view-only access reads but cannot add or change. You can change the reports you wrote; so can the person named as responsible for one and a project administrator, and everybody else reads. Reports are listed day by day, and anyone reading can search by title and filter by author, location, company, date and status.
Site & daily log
What the report holds
The fields are grouped as Work & resources and Follow-up, so the project manager can find the head count and the quality manager can find the delay without reading the whole text. A report cannot be deleted, and every change is logged field by field with the name of the person and the time, in Activity & history. The log opens in the browser on any phone, with no app to install.
The day, in the daily log
Step 1
Start the report in the morning
Open Site & daily log in the phone’s browser and press New log entry. Give it a Title, check the Date, and set the Work area / location and the Company if the report is about one trade. Its Status shows Open, In progress or Done while you work.
Step 2
Fill the fields as things happen
Work in progress, People on site as a number, Contractor, Equipment / resources, Deliveries and Weather each have their own field. Delays go under Delays / disruptions and anything about safety under Safety observations.
Step 3
Take the photos on the spot
Under Files & photos press Take photo, which opens the camera, and add more files from the phone, up to 25 MB each. If a photo does not make it, Fidrel says that some attachments are missing and asks you to upload them again.
Step 4
Close the day and raise what went wrong
Save the report and set it to Done. If something needs follow-up, press Create NCR on the report: its title, text, location and responsible person carry over, and the two records link to each other.
What stays with others
The NCR is the quality manager’s to track: once you have raised it from the report, the corrective action and the approval run on the NCR, and a change order can follow from there. The schedule stays the project manager’s, and an RFI is raised and answered on its own page. The daily report records the day; it does not move a date or a price.
What the daily log does not do
The crew count in a log entry is one number; a Manpower row in a daily log adds company, trade and Hours, but no crew names. The weather is a text field you fill in yourself. A log entry carries no signature. A daily log is countersigned by a person a project administrator chose, so anyone else’s sign-off stays outside it. The daily log saves a day or a week as a PDF but has no Excel export of its own.
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Frequently asked questions
Anything else on your mind? We are happy to help.
Talk to usNo. The daily log opens in your phone’s browser, and Take photo opens the phone’s camera from the report. Nothing has to be installed, which also means no update to chase.
Yes. Save the report as soon as it has a title and add to it later; the Status of Open, In progress or Done shows others whether it is finished. Every edit is logged with your name and the time.
Yes, if it is yours, if you are named as responsible for it or if you are a project administrator. A report cannot be deleted, and the history shows what was changed, by whom and when.
Reports are listed by day with the most recent first. Search by title, or filter by author, location, company, date and status from the Filters panel.
The report is saved, and Fidrel tells you that some attachments are missing and asks you to upload them again. Nothing is lost silently, but the missing photo has to be added by you.