Better understand the performance, progress, and productivity of your job site with these five impactful fields

Site superintendents have a lot on their plate between managing various subcontractors, supervising daily job site tasks, reporting to stakeholders and home-office teams, and more. Between all their day-to-day tasks, they are also required to keep project teams updated on daily progress through daily construction reports – a report designed to allow visibility into daily progress and productivity on a job site for stakeholders, field teams, and office personnel. This task can be tedious especially when utilizing traditional paper documents, resulting in opportunities for missing forms, incomplete progress reports, illegible print, and more.

Introducing digital forms into your day-to-day processes results in a variety of benefits that help your field team’s professionalism, improve accountability, and remove communication barriers between field and office teams. Further improving this process, your forms can be easily digitized for all devices (mobile, tablet, and desktop) and automatically dispatched from any location upon completion. Once your daily construction reports have been completed and dispatched to the pertinent parties, forms can be easily accessed and reviewed in real-time, streamlining workflow operations and expediting processing. Check out these five fields that can help enhance and digitally transform your daily construction reports:

Image and Sketch fields
Clear, effective communication is crucial in construction – bring your data to life with Image and Sketch fields. Image fields can be easily added to your mobile forms and can leverage your mobile device’s camera or reference your photo library to capture project progression photos at any time - even while offline! This functionality allows users the ability to allow visibility into project progression – increasing the value of daily construction reports. 

Oftentimes, it can be difficult to clearly communicate key details or problems encountered with text alone when relying on traditional paper forms. Fortunately, adding Sketch fields to annotate Images transforms the way you capture data in the field – providing further context to input data. For example, if you encounter a hazard in the field, rather than documenting that hazard with static text, open your form in the online Form Editor, select the Sketch field and then select the Image icon from within the Sketch window. Take a photo or upload an existing photo from your library and add annotations to your image with tools like Pencil, Arrows, Text, Circles/Rectangles, and more – adding value to your record-keeping and saving time from costly delays in project schedules.

Pre-Populated Fields
Make daily construction reports less tedious and accelerate the entry of previously captured data using Data Sources to automatically populate multiple fields at once. This is possible through utilizing Database fields in conjunction with Text fields. For example, choosing a project name can automatically fill in fields for the site superintendent’s contact information, project location and stats, vendors on the job, and more – leading to tremendous time savings, more streamlined data collection, and more accurate data.

Conditional Logic
Easily and quickly build daily construction reports without any missing information through optimizing digital forms to enforce data capture rules through Conditional Logic. This functionality allows users the ability to configure fields to be interactive and automatically complete certain actions based on another field input. To simplify, think of Conditional Logic as if/then statements, for example, if a site superintendent selects a certain Checkbox field then populate an additional Visible Text field that is Required before submitting a report – enriching your digital forms with more data capture and eliminating extra means of communication.

Table fields
Leverage Table fields for your daily construction reports and capture better field data within organized table cells. You can even host different field types within your Tables like Calculations, Images, GPS, and more, providing opportunities for better, organized data collection. Within the Template Editor, form creators can also optimize specific field Properties, like locked columns, which make certain columns uneditable or automate actions, which utilizes Data Source information to automate Table cell actions through data entry.

Electronic Signatures
Authorize daily construction reports from the field through electronic Signatures. Rather than signing your traditional paper forms, scanning, and sending them off to office personnel to review, digitize your forms and include Signature fields to simplify authorizations from the field. Your Signatures can be made Required or even automatically populate a Timestamp, ensuring daily reports are approved with easy to reference authorization details. 

Leverage GoFormz for not only daily construction reports, but for all your construction and field service reports. To learn more about how GoFormz helps construction teams around the world, check out these top 11 construction mobile forms, or learn more from our construction customer success stories.