Spotlight Form: The Daily Construction Report
Utilize digital daily construction reports to rapidly capture job site data, capture job site images, and more – even while offline in remote locations
Improve visibility into your job site with digital daily construction reports that can be completed directly from phones, tablets, and computers. Relying on paper forms, rigid PDFs, and cumbersome spreadsheets results in fragmented data and frequent human error, making it difficult to monitor job site activities, project progress, and onsite incidents. Adding to these frustrations, paper forms require hand-delivery, meaning forms may not be returned to the back-office until the end of the week, or even month.
Easily digitize your daily construction reports – or create forms from scratch!
With GoFormz, you can easily digitize an existing daily construction report for use on mobile devices, or create an entirely new form from scratch. These digital daily construction reports can be easily generated and filled out from mobile devices and computers and used to capture a variety of data types, even while offline. Your digital daily construction reports can even be dispatched to field teams pre-filled with project data, reducing data entry demands and improving data accuracy.
Add Images, Sketches, Signatures, and Maps to your digital daily construction reports
Paper forms simply cannot handle the advanced data types that construction teams rely on. Digital daily construction reports can easily host this data, allowing your team to easily input Images (from their device’s photo library or camera feature), Sketches, Signatures, Maps/GPS, Barcode data, and more! You can even make these fields Required, ensuring critical information like E-SIGN Act-compliant signatures and authorizations, are entered before a form can be submitted.
Auto-populate digital form fields with project information
Leveraging Data Sources and Database fields, field selections (e.g. selecting a Drop Down menu item or Checkbox) can instantly populate corresponding fields with project information. For example, if a user selected a project name from a Drop Down menu, the address, contact information, and more could be instantly populated within corresponding fields.
Route completed digital daily construction reports to contacts and applications
Once submitted, your digital daily construction reports can be automatically routed to back-office teams and site supervisors, for immediate review and processing. Completed forms can even be instantly uploaded to connected systems, like Procore, Autodesk, Acumatica, Google Drive, and more. Data collected within your digital daily construction reports can even be used to update or create new records within connected applications, or to update connected databases, spreadsheets, dashboards, and reports.
Share digital reports with subcontractors and collaborators
With digital forms, you can even link to your digital daily construction reports from job site signage (via QR code), a website, an email, or a text, allowing subcontractors outside of your GoFormz account to easily access, fill out, and complete reports from the field. This functionality ensures that job site personnel have access to necessary documentation, without requiring further time from job site management – further improving visibility and efficiency. Deploying this form in the field provides a simple way for subcontractors to submit critical site data for the day while using a format they are already comfortable with. Also of value, subcontractors can simply scan a code, fill out the form, without needing to log into GoFormz or any other system.
Key features:
Required fields - Make important form fields Required to ensure critical information is input before a form can be submitted. This property can even be made dynamic, with fields only becoming Required when certain criteria has been met.
Images & Sketches - Increase visibility into job site activities and progress with visual fields, like Images and Sketches. You can even sketch over an Image field to annotate key details.
GPS & Maps - Allow users to add a Map or GPS coordinates of their location with a few simple ‘taps’. You can even configure Maps and GPS fields to automatically populate when a form has been generated.
Signature fields - Easily capture authorizations with electronic signature fields.
Database fields - Instantly populate corresponding fields based on Database field selections, scanned Barcodes, and more – improving accuracy and accelerating form completion.
Automated Workflows - Automate form routing and uploads to connected systems.
Form sharing (Public Forms feature) - Share forms with subcontractors and external collaborators to be filled out and completed.
To learn more about leveraging digital forms and data capture to improve your job site’s efficiency, transparency, and reporting, check out our customer case studies or our top forms for construction eBook.
