Thanks everyone for joining our heavy job and plans webinar today. There's gonna be less talk about IT security the rest of the webinar, but we are very happy that you are here. Just as a reminder, we have a a number of topics today in on plans, heavy job and my field. At any point in this, presentation, if you do have questions, please utilize the the q and a feature. Ask a question whether it's related to what you see on the screen or something that's slightly unrelated, we'll be sure to answer your question to the best of our ability. So with that, I'm going to kick it off and turn it over to John Bradshaw, and he is going to cover HCSS plans. Hello, everyone. I'm John Bradshaw. I'm the technical product manager for HCSS plans, and we have a have a couple of, couple of new additions to the app. First one up is, we're now including the direction that you were facing when take that that that that someone was facing when they take a photo in, in HCSS plan. So this header information is now, actually included in the information. One, you can display it in, in the information on the photo if you use the stamp tool, as part of the markup. And then we are also we also have this information available in the background and are, kinda thinking about some ways we will be able to, we will be able to use this to bring out some, to bring out some other options that can that can happen within, that that can happen within HCSS plans. So use as you can see here on this, on this photo, down at the bottom, I was facing seventy nine degrees east, when I had, when I had taken this. It's a little bit hard to see on that, so we can does it transition? There we go. Yep. There it is. Seventy nine degrees. And if you go on to the next one, Reed, if you want to use this, when you're in the photo and you're in the markup feature within HCSS plans, the little stamp there is the one that will include this location information, time the picture was taken, it's g p it's degree, minute, and second location. It's a latitude and longitude, and then the direction that you were, you were facing, when when taking it. So that is that is in the app right now. You can, you can you can start getting this you can start getting this information at that additional context. And then our next item here Well, actually, before before you go there, John hold on a sec. Let's I wanted this feature in HTSS field from a heavy job perspective for, like, I don't know, eight years at this point. And it made it into plans, which I'm very happy about. Also slightly upset. Well, it shouldn't be upset because this feature is also in heavy job in heavy job in field now because your photos from pan plans seamlessly transition over to over to field. So this information is also available and is also available available in field. Very cool. Via plans. I I was gonna say that that now you can get all of your stuff there, and all the plans photos feed into heavy job, and make that whole round trip. So, yes, I do think this is a very cool feature. Mildly disappointed it didn't make it into into actual HTSS field so that people could take photos there. But great that it's in plans and great that those flow into heavy job ads of work that was done earlier this year. So very excited and disappointed too. That's just me. Alright. Sorry, John. All yours. I think one thing to to point out on this one, it is a a feature to go in and press that stamp option. When we designed it originally, the idea was that you may need to move it around. So you can see Bradshaw has this in the upper left hand corner. We'd love to hear back from y'all if this is an idea, for just putting it automatically in, say, the lower right hand corner with a set color and things like that. So we've we've heard both ways that it's a, it would most likely end up being a a configuration of some sort. But, if you do have a requirement to always have these on the photos, we'd love to hear from you and see if that's something that, that we should just require on these photos once they're taken and have a, say, configuration inside of the IT management system. In fact, I'm gonna work on a poll for later on during this webinar that's gonna ask a couple of questions related to that. Perfect. Okay. And then our other new item this, this this time around is we've added a version filter to, to to iOS. Basically, what this is is it allows you to filter the view of your sheets in your, in your project thumbnail view, your project view, down to a specific version. This matches the function we already had available in HCSS manager. And, you know, the reason why I kinda wanna bring it up is this was a response direct this was something we did directly as a result of a comment on our HCSS plans community. I I will tell you, I literally saw this come across, and I was like, no way. We don't have this in iOS already. And I went in, and I was like, yeah. No. We don't actually have that. We need to have this because it is just such a, such a common sense thing for us to for for us to do. You can get a lot of a lot of versions floating around. And if you're trying to make sure you're talking about the same information to someone who is not there, making sure you are using the same settings makes that quicker. So we wanna go ahead and bring that in, and I also wanna make a plug before, you know, I'm pretty easy to I'm pretty easy to reach. Engaged in the plans community, I'm available on LinkedIn, email. You know, please do not if you have an idea, question, comment, concern, complain about plans, and hit me up. We'll, we'll we'll see what we can do about it. And finally, this is just a little bit of a little bit of a heads up. We are going to be, with HCSS plans twenty twenty four point fifteen. We just released twenty twenty four point thirteen, so this is actually two updates of, iOS forward. We are you are your users are going to have to update from, update to iOS sixteen. This is a, so, yeah, I know it's a little bit confusing with HCSS plans iOS fifteen, and iOS sixteen. That is for the device itself. We don't we do we we do we don't have a whole lot of people, still you still using devices that are not, two that are not iOS sixteen or higher, but we do have some. So if your if your devices have not been updated to, a a newer version of iOS, plans will, will stop working as we intend it to, for for for those users. So just wanna start giving you all a heads up. Those users are getting a notification in the app, that an update will be required. So if someone, if someone starts reaching out to you, reaching out to your IT department about that, that is what that is what is coming. And it goes back to our IT discussion. We wanna make sure that we are running the latest information possible, keeping keeping our keeping our devices keeping ours application, keeping your information, secure and working as expected. That is all I got, so I am gonna give it back to you, Reid. Quick quick note on that, update. Because I I think, John, you threw in some, scary vocabulary there, and I do want to clarify one quick thing. The way that that these types of updates work is that we do not allow so you still can run HCSS plans on that previous version. You will not be able to update to that latest version from the App Store. So the plans will continue to work as is. You're just not getting all the latest and greatest things. So, so just keep that in mind is that, as we talk about these things here for for what we're going to release, unless you are on, the iOS fifteen or iOS sixteen or greater, you will not be receiving those things. So, we're not it doesn't shut it down or anything else like that. Keep working as is. Just no new cool features. And speaking of those new cool features, Rafael is asking, John, which version has the photos? The it is in the one it is in twenty twenty four point thirteen. The one is currently available in the, in the App Store. So if you update to HCSS plans iOS twenty twenty four point one three thirteen, you will be able to take a photo, stamp it with your heading, and to, Rafael's question earlier, what I mean by via plans is it will go into heavy job if you use HCSS plans to take the photo and add it to your and add it to your plans project. That is how the plans to field to heavy job integration integration works. Alright. I think we have our first poll question. I'm gonna go ahead and launch this poll. If you could view employees on the map and plans, what information would be most useful? John, feel free to give any additional context on it. Yes. This is building off of a, question we had asked, last month of what information would you like to see added to, the the project map view? And while while POIs was the mo was the winner in this one, in our slightly wider poll that we had cast across plans users, employee information, was a, was was a much higher ask. So now as we're kind of fleshing this out, I'm curious what we should include in this, to really make it. Because, otherwise, all it's gonna do is it's gonna show you, like, a picture of your employee a a picture of your employee on the on the map. Okay. Great. That's where he was when he did this check-in. What actually becomes useful, if you have that? Being able to you know, if you tap you know, like your equipment on plans, if you tap on it, it brings up information about that equipment. What we're looking for with with this is if you tap on that on that employee icon, it will bring up information about your employee. So what sort of, what sort of information, what sort of actions would you like to, would you like to take with that? And it looks like contact options are just absolutely running away with this. Yeah. Just share the poll. Yeah. Looks like contact options got seven sixty nine percent of the vote and paid class at nineteen percent I'm talking to. Okay. Alright. We have one other question that came in, during the poll that I thought would be good maybe to answer. John is, with all these upgrades to HCSS plans, will the storage also be updated as well? I'm I'm I'm kinda curious what you what you mean there, anonymous attendee, because we don't really have a we don't have a storage limit. Yep. Sounds like we'll get some additional information. Hopefully, they can type it in, and then, and then we can answer that a little bit a little bit later. Perfect. Alright. Just to add some more color to what we do, just trying to get on the right path there. HCSS plans can download your plan sets as well as, any of the photos, and and hold them offline. There is no restriction on the the size of those. Right? So however large those get, we you can download those to the device. The only restriction is the actual device restriction. If you, only have a thirty two megapixel gigabyte or or sixty four gigabyte iPad, then that's all that you can download. So, no limit on what you can store in there. We know that those plan sizes get very large. We've processed very large in the thousands of plan sheets and download them to the iPads already. We have, sheets with with thousands of annotations and and photos and hundreds of photos within these documents. And so as long as the the device can support it, it stores it there and no limit on that processing up into our cloud as well. So feel free to, reach out with more context on that, but I think, as far as storage goes, we're we're preset there. Yeah. Then, Julie, I'll go ahead and answer this one real quick. Skills and certification are separate. I just had them as two different responses and kind of a little bit more context for me as far as, which one I may or which one we may or may not have wanted to, really make a priority on figuring out how we'd want to, how we'd want to show it. But with what we got, you know, that that contact information is probably where we are going is probably where we are going to start, and, you know, just the the the information that is available, I think I would wanna have in there. I think back on some previous careers, having more information about the folks who I'm working with or who are working for me, out in the field is incredibly valuable, but we do have to start somewhere. So that, again, truly appreciate y'all's, y'all y'all's feedback on that. And, again, that's good for bad accident. Accidental. Okay. K. I'd say that's a good accidental plug for, for a chat as well. If you don't have their, their text or email, anybody set up in credentials, you'll be able to chat, and that's already there for everybody. John doesn't have to share his contact info with me, from phone to phone or or get that over to me somehow or see it on the map. As long as you've set that user up in credentials, you'll be able to chat them, which is pretty cool. Yes. Perfect. Yeah. Great feature in there. Alright. And now we're gonna move over to heavy job, and I'm gonna turn it over to Britney. She's talk a little bit about export to accounting. Good morning, everybody. You guys don't know me already. I'm, one of the technical product managers for HeavyJob Web, and I got some updates on our web export to accounting tool. So for any folks that were interested in the tool but decided it wasn't gonna work for them because maybe they need to have some of their linked equipment hours in line with their labor, but unlinked equipment hours in a separate row, we now have support for that. So you see that screenshot? If you want to have that functionality, you check those boxes just like you see. You'd have your labor row checked, your linked equipment checked, and then for equipment rows, you only want your unlinked only. That way, you don't duplicate your linked equipment. So that functionality is available. If you think that might help you out, but you're not sure, feel free to call our support team. They'd be happy to get you on the right path to make sure that it works for your accounting system. The other thing we're currently working on, it's not out yet, but I know some folks have been asking for this. We are going to provide the option to filter out zero hour entries. So that way, if your foreman are entering zero hours, on their time card, but you don't want that going to your ERP when you export, we'll provide that flexibility so you can now update your template. So that's it for export to accounting, and I think okay. I see some questions specifically asking for that functionality and then seeing that we're releasing it. So, your requests have been heard. We'd like to say that. And then we're on to potential change orders. Reid, do you mind thank you. So the, the next update is on our potential chain orders. We are providing, linked PCO information in our cost code summary and detail report. In addition to this, you also will see a, tab or, I mean, a column in your setups for cost codes. That way, if you're looking at these reports or the setups and you have a question of why might my budget be different than it used to be, you've got some of that context you might have tracked via potential change order. And similar to the time card, those are hyperlinks. So if you click on one of those blue, numbers, it'll take you directly to that detail page of the potential change order. Now if you do not have access to potential change orders, then you will not be able to see this. So keep that in mind. If this is something you would like to see, but you can't right now, just ask your heavy job champion or administrator to give you access for it. And then I have one other update that's unrelated to potential change orders and unrelated to export to accounting. There's not a slide for it, so you gotta use your imagination. But for our, field users that have been wanting to have something similar to copy time card functionality, but they really just wanna copy their crew, we are actively working on it. So that way, if you have multi job time cards or you're starting a new job every day and you don't want your jobs and, cost codes to get copied, but just your equipment and people, we will have that functionality here in the near future. So just wanted to shout that out because I know some people are really excited about that. So that's, what we've been up to. The column totals on reports. Yeah. I think we gave an update. This one is fully out now. So we have, added in the ability to view totals on reports across quite a few, items, originally in the employee and equipment. We can see here in our cost code summary reports, totaling up those options down at the very bottom. Very useful for whenever you have your filters set up, needing to get the final information, with that option up at the top to hide totals and then to show them again, if you need to. Okay. I'm actually going to do a, demo on this one, I think. Unfortunately, Cassey couldn't make it. Had a sick kid today. So I'm going to take over her. I think she re rerecorded a video for us. Better do it live and and just see how I can mess up, I think, is the the right way to go. So today, we are going to talk about a little known feature inside of heavy job, and that's how you can do free signatures down into your laborers and to your operators. So we're gonna talk about in a little bit about why you want to do, the signatures, but first, we're going to hop into the actual setup. So let me share my screen and jump over into here. The setup is going to start out inside of credentials first. So I'm going to spare you, the boredom, I would say, of setting up a a new employee from scratch. So I have two users set up here, my admin, Andrew f, and Andrew free as I'm calling it here, because this is a a free signature option here. So that's, just a great name. But I just wanna show you what the setup looks like. So I can set it to however I need to. I have it set up as a user. I can set it up as a my field user as well and save those options. But the important part here is that the only information on this actual user is is a login. Right? So there's no subscription setup. There's no, no items that are going to affect a payment for this user. It is just a login really into our environment, into our system. And so this is what's going to allow now any labor, anybody that has a login, inside of HCSS to go into a, my field login on either Android or iOS. So let me switch over here to my iPhone. It's not here right now. I guess that's why it hasn't recorded so that way it would would come through. Alright. Take my word for it. Trust me. Go go set up for yourself. Once you have that option, you have the ability then to log in into my field. You'll have two options that are there to sign your hours and then to submit observations, because that is an an additional, free, functionality into safety, to submit those observations there. So as as far as submitting hours, Fat Fiddler is going to jump in here and discuss a little bit about, why you would want to do this. One, why you would want to do signatures at all, and two, why you want to do signatures or why you would need to do signatures through my field for this ash additional feature. Let's say, if your state touches the Pacific Ocean, there's a very good chance that you're already doing signatures. But if your state doesn't touch the Pacific Ocean, it still can be useful to be able to grant access for your employees to see their hours, which is one cool thing that, that you can do here with practically the same setup, or have everybody sign off on their time. If everybody in the webinar here is on my crew today, if, if they're signing out for the day, if I want their signature, I've gotta stick their time into a heavy job on my iPad before they leave. They've gotta come see me and sign off on my iPad just like it's a piece of paper. With my field, they can if I plug that in and they're on the other side of the, the job site, a quarter mile, several miles away, if we know that we, work ten hours today, I can plug that in and they can sign it from wherever they are on their phone as soon as I hit the, the send button, which is pretty cool. You're signing your total hours for the day. So Fowler isn't saying that he worked eight hours on this thing and two hours on this thing. He's just saying he worked ten hours today. So I can make a, basically, a starter time card with everybody's total hours. Hit send so that way everybody can sign off on their hours, and then I can split out those hours, later, which is nice because Fowler's signature is still good for those ten hours even though I plugged it in as ten, and then later I split it up as eight and two or as many variations of that as you need. Similar to a lot of what we do for safety where we're mitigating risk, we wanna know what our risks are and do what we can to mitigate those and be safe. We're mitigating risk by having everybody sign off. And while that can be a process prohibitive on paper, because everybody's gotta come and see me or even with the, the iPad, everybody has to come and see me using this feature of, My Field. You have to show your employees how to log in to My Field, but there's no extra cost to you to be able to do that, which is pretty cool. And so it can be a benefit for them to be able to see the hours whether you get the signatures or not. Hey, every all my hourly employees, this is a new, HR tool benefit, communication that we're using from the, system we use for your time records. So that way on Monday morning, if you wanna check and make sure your hours look good for last week, you can holler at your foreman or the, the several crews that you worked on and say, hey. I stayed late on Tuesday, and it looks like I'm a little shy there or proactively let people have access to see their hours. If we sign off, then they're saying, hey, I work ten hours today. So we we've mitigated that daily and have an easy way to be able to see who signed and who hasn't signed. But I'd say the, really just as much as getting that, employee signature, being able to, to have everybody see their total hours for the week before we go to process payroll should hopefully cut down on any of the, the makeup checks that might squeeze through even after, turning in time throughout the week. Do see a few questions coming in. I'm going to, jump on those. So let me share my screen again to do that, part of it first before we get to those. So first thing I wanted to show in, just touching on what Phil just mentioned. Within the heavy job system, all that information does flow into the signatures report here, where you'll be able to see that information coming across. So, that's where the the one of the final places where you can, diagnose and see, who is not signed with signatures are now invalid, if the the time has changed, different things like that. So this report, will definitely help you to, get all that things answered. Double checking, y'all can see my field set up now? Yes. We can. Okay. Yeah. From Sarah Sarah, we'll check-in to see what happened with this, option. As far as how you disable it, I'm inside of my, setup right now. If you do not want to require signatures, from my field, you can go into setup and then choose, to turn off enable signatures, and that will turn off that feature, if you are just using the enter hours option there. So that way, it will, not require that signature and should get you back going in the right direction. Sorry for that, and we'll we'll investigate what happened there. One question that came in from Brandon is, is the total displayed in my fields the total across all your form? So are you able to sign if the employee is on multiple cruise, time cards in the same date? And the answer to that is yes. It does pull all your, all the time cards for that individual employee into my field, which is great. We know that many people, the crews are not shifting around that much. But for those that are, it becomes a lot more fun to keep track of where everybody's at and trying to get them signed, especially if you have an operator work in the morning on one crew and then heading over to another job site and work in another, another piece of equipment over there. Making sure they sign on the foreman's iPad prior to leaving that first job site, has always been a little bit difficult. And that's where my field comes in. Logistics make the world go round and getting that signature on the, the foreman's iPad can be really tough, especially if I'm jumping from Fowler's to Adam's crew in a day. So being able just to sign at the end of the day on my, on my my field, even just as a backup or as your normal process. Or I have a flip phone, or I don't wanna put that thing on, on my phone. Okay. That's fine. You don't have to install the app on your phone. We're trying to make it easier. You just need to see your foreman before you leave every day so you can sign off. Okay. To continue on, I feel that I'd like the way you phrased it. If you touch the Pacific Coast, this is this is a discussion for you now. I've also would include within this could be Colorado as well as Connecticut. I believe they also have some pretty, strict guidelines there and how they talk about, break rules specifically is what we're going to jump into now. So if you are, if you are in a state that touches the the Pacific Ocean or or Colorado or Connecticut or anywhere else that has some pretty stringent, break rules, feel free to, participate in some polls that we have coming up soon. So the feature that we're looking at, one is the ability to edit the clock in times inside of my field. So what we have going on here within the side, have my clock in and clock out times, eight eleven, nine thirty nine, clocking in and clocking out. What we're going to add in is the ability to, edit that timeline directly inside of, my field. And so now if that's clock in time was supposed to be eight AM, but I just forgot as a labor operator to clock in, I can actually edit that to get it correct for those hours, similar to how you would, say, go back and sign a paper, a paper timesheets, if if you're still working on that paper. Whenever you, look within the system, how we're going to do that is to track whenever those edits have happened. So that way you will know that, if it if it is the case that it was edited back from at eight eleven back into eight o'clock so you can know exactly whenever that has happened. So traceability will still exist to make sure that the assist that you you don't have laborers that are actually showing up to the job site late and then clocking in early. Another big thing that it helps out with is breaks. So if we go to that next one. So whenever you start looking at break workflows, specifically around the lunch break, one big thing that will typically happen is either they're clocking in or clocking out in, either side and not getting the the right time there. So here, we're adding in showing you what the new UI will look like within this sort of calendar view. The ability to just select that lunch hour and then to edit in, for that start and stop time for whenever those times have actually occurred. So now if you do clock out at twelve o three and are trying to clock in at twelve thirty, that's gonna be a violation of the break rules for some states where it has to be a thirty minute unpaid break. Right? So, so that way, you can edit it back to twelve, get it to twelve thirty, and not hit that restriction. Alright. So with that, after the edit clock and hours, that's part of the solution. The next big thing that we want to look at is, how we can limit and lessen the amount of times that you have to pay that premium hour. So what we're looking at is some sort of warning or system. We need to know if this is a good idea. So for when you look around the regulation around breaks, what we want to do is to let the operator, the laborer know they're not quite hitting that, break time. One thing that we won't do is to restrict them entirely from clocking in or out for a thirty minute time frame. That's something that we cannot do, just because if there is a legitimate reason, we need to allow for that. So do nothing is the the the first option, which, of course, we don't think that's what we want to continue doing, but wanted to make sure. It's a little bit of a of a a base setting. But after that, we can do just a warning, is the is option b, where we only we only prompt them with, say, a pop up that says, hey. This is happening. After that, we have a a free form entry where they can type in whatever or a drop down that you can preconfigure to say set a reason for why that user may be coming back. Okay. Again, thank you for, the states that this actually cares about. I apologize for all the all the participants here that, do not care about the stringent rules of of other states. Here in Texas, we we don't necessarily worry about that, but, we do do appreciate, what what happened what happened with the labor laws for the other states. Alright. Looks like not sure what I did there. Looks like the, majority of votes, is coming in for a preconfigured drop down. That's the direction I think that we want to head in. It's a it's a good way to, make it where your data is more consistent is what we found, when you have those preconfigured options. A little bit easier. Sometimes it ends up in a a pencil kind of situation, but that can be the case for really any field like that. But at a minimum, you are asking them to to provide a reason, for why they are clocking back in early, and then can have that follow-up conversation with them after you find that within our reporting. Alright. Well, before we go there, we have we have, a number of my field questions. Yeah. Reid, take us back to a screen that has my field on it. So give us that context. Yeah. That'll work. Okay. So, Sarah's asking, do these edits have to be confirmed by a crew lead? Basically, if the employee is there and edits their clock ins and stuff, does that have to be confirmed by a crew lead? And the answer is yes. Nothing the employee sends in does not get confirmed by their crew lead. So all of those times, those clock in, clock out, and any edits that occur are going to show up on the foreman's time card. And they should not be submitting that prior to them verifying that the employee didn't check and say, hey. I got here at one o'clock in the morning. I wanna get paid for an initial five hours. No. That that would be a a failure on the crew lead's part to verify that time. Okay? So yes. Another important thing to note on this, it is not going to be a everybody gets this feature. Similar to, the settings that we showed, there's multiple options there for turning, how you how you need to record these this information on and off. So if you are, getting to your your laborers and operators, you must show up and you must clock in, and that's that's where we're going to pay you at. That's totally fine. We we can leave that setting off. In that way, you can continue that process. And that will still, like Adam said, flow into the crew lead into that iPad, to, to, verify the information before it actually hits the time card inside of HeavyJob. And looking, looks like Chris was asking, as an engineer, are they able to edit their guys' times after they've been entered into the time card? Yes. You would edit that actually on the time card itself. The my field information is gonna be editable by the employees, but that information has to flow to the time card for them to get paid in the proper place, whether it's the crew lead or the engineer or a PM or a payroll person needing to edit that time, that edit thing would occur on the time card in that, schedule column that come the clock in, clock out column that comes out on the right side. And looks like Matt has another comment on that. That might be, worth taking a step back to kinda frame it for anybody that, doesn't quite understand how my field works. So if I'm the hourly employee and Adam is my foreman, currently, I can punch in at the beginning of the day. I can punch out for lunch or breaks and then punch out at the, the end of the day. There's an option to say, okay. Now you can edit it. So if I forget to punch out for lunch and then realize that after the fact, I go, whoops. I I took my break at, at eleven thirty today, so I can fix it. Either way, when I'm done, I'm sending that in. I'm basically effectively filling out my paper time sheet to say I started here. I took a lunch break, and I ended here. Here you go, Adam. These are my hours. He's gonna hit download, pull that into his iPad on the right hand side. It's gonna say that Matt worked for ten hours, and here's the specifics on those ten hours he worked. And then he's gonna punch in. Okay. It was four hours over here and four hours over here and two hours over here to the appropriate cost code. If he knows that I left early or he knows that's wrong, he and I didn't, fix my lunch, but we were sitting next to each other, having lunch. He can fix it for me on his iPad. So he still he's the foreman. He's the boss. He can make the edits that he needs to before we actually turn in the final paperwork to the office. Yeah. And to a similar note, another question that we had is if the, laborer can determine whether or not that is regular hours or overtime hours. Short answer for that is is no. The functionality really is logging the total time that you worked within that day, independent of what whatever pay rate that you're going to get for the for that hours. So it's going to flow again into that foreman's, time card for the total of ten hours for the day where they can then, go ahead and determine if that is overtime hours, double time hours, whatever the case is, by entering that inside of the time card with the settings that exist. Sounds good. One person's looking for confirmation. Tara was always having to reach out to the field to confirm if the employee worked either on one side or the other. And so having the field be able to see the, the hours that have come in from, that, that someone has added in there, absolutely. You're gonna wanna make sure that they're aware, that it it it behooves them to correct the hours when they're shorted. It also behooves them to correct the hours when they're marked on two different time cards and they only work on one guy's crew because, you will eventually catch it, and it's just gonna cause issues and, might as well have them alert them to those type of things. John's asking, what happens if they don't agree with the hours? And the bottom line is it's it's meant to be a communication tool. It's meant to encourage that communication between the employee and the crew lead earlier. So bottom line is they're gonna get their paycheck at the end of the week, and at that point, they're gonna say, I don't agree with these hours. We might as well move that up before the paycheck's written. Makeup checks are a fact of life, but they suck. We all know that. And they're a pain for your payroll team. So might as well attempt to correct those earlier, by having that conversation with the crew lead before payroll is run, which is a a novel concept at a lot of places, but, we think it could be something that catches on. So, there was a reporting question earlier, I think, that, Kudson, you were gonna answer for us. Sarah was one of our where'd it go? I forget. Oh, any future plans to add cost code notes to the web cost code summary report? Yes. Yes. So I sent, Sarah a quick side message because she had to run. But, overall, we wanna keep those notes on a transactional level so you can really see, you know, specifically, what the note was referencing that particular day as opposed to a summary of the cost code as a whole for the week or the month or whatever you're running at that level. So, if any of the other guys are looking for notes, check out the cost by tags report. We've got, a couple where those cost code notes can be referenced. But, unfortunately, we don't have plans to add those at the summary level right now for those reasons. Now I got a couple of polls, John. Did you have something else to, help? Yeah. I'm gonna borrow the screen for a moment here. So we had one other feature that I wanted to highlight for you guys today. So this is something we've talked about the last couple webinars, but, basically, we had added these column totals on a couple reports. We got some great feedback from you guys that this was really useful. And so we've actually added these to a number of other reports. For those of you that aren't familiar with this feature, you can see here on the slide on the right, we've got the option to turn these on or off. So there's a show totals or hide totals just depending on how you toggle the button. It's in there on the in the upper middle of the report grid. And, you know, real real simple functionality, but really powerful. Basically, turns on those totals at the bottom that you can see highlighted in red, for the fields that it makes sense. You know, obviously, things like, you know, this budgeted quantity or something like that, we're not gonna total up. But the the budgeted all costs, you know, is definitely something that we would wanna see across these different, jobs. So check it out. We added that to as many reports as we could. So, that includes the production analysis, the job summary, all of the cost code, and employee and equipment reports, and more. I think we also added it to the weekly reports for employee hours and equipment hours. I'm just looking at the list here. Production plan, material and subs report, and more. So let us know how those are working out for you. Hopefully, that, aids in some quick calculations or just as you're glancing over the reports, it helps you, you know, figure out the decisions you're trying to make that much faster. So, I just wanted to highlight that today as well. Alright. With that, I think I'll pass it back over to, our Okay. Goals. I I can tell you. Let's we, we talked about the photos feature at the very beginning, the great new photos feature in plans. First off on the launcher poll asking Andrew's question. Alright. Should there be a system wide setting that auto stamps every photo in the corner of the photo so that your foreman don't have to manually stamp it? Or would you prefer that your foreman just manually stamp the photos that they find necessary? I just wanna say we've done quite a few polls. This is a landslide, really. I think Yeah. I I don't have ever seen it this much. Alright. It's it's coming. Fun trivia. In a camera, the way they did that photo time stamp, there was a teeny tiny little projector in the camera, and it was going from the other side of the film, which is why it was always orange because the film stock is brown. And so it was a little projector that would flash real quick and bright to burn in that image into the, the film stock. That's what I want. I think it should be I think we should fake the font of the burned in exposure for the date and times. Like, I think that would just like, there's something to that. Alright. Alright. That's that was the first question. Thank you all for answering that and pretty much deciding that, yes, we're gonna do it. That that's I've never seen ninety percent plus on a yes no question. Okay. Next up, question number two. What other information would you potentially like to see stamped on there? Oh, and you don't have to answer it if you don't want the information. I really realized I didn't need a I should have added, like, a none on there. But this this can work too. So we've done a lot of polls for y'all today, so I'm not gonna keep this open for for longer than just now. But this is some good information there for us. Looks like job code and foreman name are the are the highest ticks, among people answering. Fascinated that nobody chose other, which is awesome because it means that between job and foreman and the other information that John has already added onto there, we have everything covered, like, done. So very cool. I'm sharing that. Hand things back over to, I guess, to Reid to close us out. Yeah. Is there any other questions that came in that we need to answer before we wrap up, Andrew? Let me go through them real quick. There's one question for Brandon. Is for the my field clock ins, are they geofensible? They are. So you can, create a geofence, for the my field clock ins, so you can determine whether or not those events have happened in or out of that geofence. In addition to that, we do record the, the GPS coordinates of those clock ins. That way you can always reference where it is inside of that geofence. Let's see. And one question came in, and I think Anil answered it by, by Tyson can answer directly to the person. I'm gonna have him answer it live on the live for everybody here. But, what parts of my field are free compared to what parts do we have to pay for? So, Anil, if you wouldn't mind, answering that for for everybody there. Yeah. Absolutely. So the signatures you saw are free now. You can also see your form of submitted hours. I think we show that in the video and then the demo, and then, skills. So if you have assigned skills that are tied to you, you'll be able to see that visually with with just a login and not a natural subscription. And then the stuff that's paid for, if you purchase a Myfield license, you can get access to inspections. So along with, like, your clock in clock out, you also get access to inspections. And then in the Myfield app, if your company at at the business unit level also, subscribes to forms, you'll get access to the forms module. I believe I covered all of them. I can double check my iPad. I think that's all of them, though. I think so. And if we missed it, we'll we'll mention it next month when we when we are here, for the last of our monthly webinars this year. As many of you know, we we take off November and December, which are typically Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks anyway is the last Thursdays of the month. But we will be back on October thirty first for our special Halloween edition. For those of you unaware, we recommend dressing up. This is this is, this is when we we go into costume or find some fun filters that that somehow allow us to do cool things. So It's never been on Halloween before. Right? I I've we've done it for five or six years, so I gotta feel like at least one time we've hit a Halloween exactly on there. It'd be extra spooky. First time in a while, though. First time in a while. Yes. Fun fact, that that'll be my my daughter's birthday is on Halloween, so we'll see, about my participation in in the next one. But I'll probably be there. Alright. Thanks, everyone, for joining. We'll see you next month.
This webinar covers the latest updates across HCSS Plans, HeavyJob, and MyField. Highlights include new photo metadata in Plans (including direction and location stamping), enhanced export-to-accounting options in HeavyJob, and improved reporting with column totals across key reports. The session also explores upcoming MyField enhancements like editable clock-in/out times, break tracking workflows, and free signature capabilities to improve time tracking accuracy and compliance.
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