HeavyJob and HCSS Plans February 2024 Monthly Webinar

Lance is Lance is first. Lance is first. Hello, everybody. Oh, we lost Britney. Alright. We are just getting started right now. We'll let everybody, come in and join the meeting. This is our second month in our new platform of Zoom. And so so far off to a slightly better start than last month. When we didn't realize, we'd started the webinar and just started talking to y'all, but we weren't actually talking to y'all for a good five minutes until one of you reached out. So, while we're waiting for our other host to join in, I think it's worthwhile for us to discuss how you contact us. If you can't and I think you can share. Hear anything. So down at the bottom, there is a q and a section, and we will be able to answer your questions, live. And if we're not able to get to them live, then we will handle them as part of the, lightning round at the end. But I think we have everybody, so I'll go ahead and kick it off. My name is Adam Black. I am one of the product managers, here over at HCSS, and couldn't tell what direction I should be pointing right now. So I'll go. Hey, everybody. This is Frank Baumgartner, product manager for heavy job, especially focused on the utilities market. That's actually a recent change that I'm now gonna be focused in that direction exclusively. And because of that change, let me hand it off to Andrew to explain what he's doing. Thank you, Frank. Yeah. Andrew Fowler, previously product manager for plans. I'll now be moving into, for heavy job, for heavy civil especially. So for a lot of you guys, you can start getting used to giving me a contact, for all your heavy job stuff, not just plans. And for the plans portion, I will go ahead and hand it over to Bradshaw. Hi. I'm Bradshaw. I'm the, technical product manager for HCSS plans. So, if if you had any of those brilliant, plans ideas that you wanted to give to Andrew, please reach out to me. I absolutely love hearing about them. We'll talk your ear off for hours at a time about HCSS plans. And I will kick it over to the other John. Hey. I am the other John, Jonathan Knudson, and I am the technical product manager for HeavyJob. We're one of them. My main focus is is usually in HeavyJob web along with Britney, who I'll pass it over to now. Hey, y'all. My name is Britney Klosterman, one of the technical product managers for HeavyJob Web, as John mentioned. Worked with some of y'all on export to accounting, focused on change orders now, and, really excited to go, especially after meeting a lot of you guys at UGM. So let's go. Well, as a reminder, if you have any questions, definitely put them in the chat for us, and we'll do our best to answer them. Otherwise, we're gonna let the plans team take it from here. Alright. Here's the agenda. Glance over that real quick. We won't read through everything. We're gonna have our plans first, and we'll get into heavy job and field, and then we got a few polls for y'all. We're gonna get some feedback. Plans. Who's taking it away? I I got it. Thank you very much, Frank. Okay. For next slide, please. Okay. First up, this was one of the, this was one of the items we released prior to UGM. It is a select unit measure for your groups and your exports. And what you can do in here is, now there is a new there there are some new items in the add and edit group menu. You can go in and select the measurements, that you actually need to export. So previously, plans would record and export every measurement that was associated with that annotation. So it's count, it's length, it's area, and it's volume. And, what we, you know, what what we what we learned, y'all told us told us a lot, is, it meant you had to go in and then delete all of those items out of the export before you wanted to bring it into, before you wanted to take that take off into into HeavyBid. So now what you can do when you're creating your groups, you can go ahead and just select the measurements, whether it's count, length, area, or volume, that you actually want to see, and then you can also go ahead and select the unit of measurement, that is going to be included in that. So you don't have to it it means you're gonna have to do a little bit less work, manipulating that spreadsheet when you're when you're done. In addition to that, we kinda cleaned up the display a little bit so that it will only show that information. So you can go ahead and choose of those four values whichever one it whichever one you actually want to include in the bill of materials or when you go into that bill of materials group. Then in addition next slide, please. We oh, too fast. We also went on ahead and kinda changed how the export warning works. Previously, you could get into a situation where you couldn't actually export any. You can you can have a situation in plans where there's a value that is not valid contained in it. Maybe you have an annotation that's on an unscaled sheet. Maybe you have a volume annotation that's missing, that volume dimension so plans can actually calculate what it was. Previously, what we were doing is, you can either get into a situation where you simply put an export without finding that one and fixing it, or, maybe it would export and it wouldn't actually have the the number you think it it it does. So we we we tackled both of those issues. One is, you're still able to export regardless of whether there is a, there's an invalid measurement in it. So if you have one estimator who's working on one section of the plan and that group, that material that they're working with is spot on, but there's some other estimator working in it. And, they're still they're still they're still doing that work. That first estimator can still export it out, do what they need to do do what they need to do with it. And then, also, if there is something included and you wanna do that, we're gonna have that nice indication, INV, invalid, that we you know, plans cannot calculate that number for some reason. And we we we're informing you of what that reason is, and, we'll be working on making it faster for faster and easier for you to, to go ahead and fix them. And then my final one, I'm actually gonna go ahead and, and flow it, because it is our, it is our copy annotations, copy annotation. And where is the share option here? Okay. I was gonna show it, but I can't see where I can, where I can show my screen. So, what we have now is the ability to just export your to copy your annotations from the previous version of a part of a of a project to the current version. What this is is when you upload that new version, you have an option, right at the top of your screen where you can go ahead and select to to copy all of your annotations to this new version. And what it will do is it will, copy those annotations, your takeoffs, your project chains, your project layer, your project chains, your control points, and as well as it's gonna keep all of those annotations in the same layering group. So that makes it a lot quicker, as your project as your project continues on, to Andrew's gonna show it for us. Yeah. I went ahead and grabbed the, the sharing for you. So, continue on all. I can keep on drawing for you. Okay. Yeah. So you can go ahead and click that copy annotations button up at the top, and that one up there will copy everything to the will will copy those annotations across all of the sheets in the project. The other option is you can select individual sheets within the within the project to, within the project to copy. So if you have, you know, for whatever reason, there's a sheet you don't wanna copy in that version, maybe the maybe the sheet itself changed or the scale on it changed and you don't want to do that because then the annotations won't show in the right place, you can go ahead and skip that. You can go ahead and skip that one. Then what'll happen is if that sheet can be replaced, it will take those annotations from that existing sheet and put them onto that new sheet. What what we have found in, talking with, talking with customers who have tried this is it is a huge time saver, particularly the, particularly the locations on, particularly the location annotations. So your control points in your project chains. It just is, you you don't have to redo those every time the every time the project gets a new version. Yep. And, that's what we got for for plans most recently. A few things to add into this, John. One of the big things about this is this feature is only available in our advanced publish section. So for any of you that are currently publishing sheets for HCSS plans, what this is, it's a it's an option for you to go in and review that all the our naming system has worked, that everything looks correct, for for how we're actually using our OCR for those sheets. So we wanted to add that within that section because it is another part of that review process. Just like Bradshaw said, the reason why you may not copy over sheets, it really is on that sheet by sheet basis. So we wanted to put it there versus in our overall quick publish option, which is really just a quick way to get the sheets into the system. K. Go ahead and publish this up, but that's all, that's all I had to add. Alright. Is that it for plans? I think we can pass it back over to you and to share. What's coming up next? So, Frank, if you wanna take control again. Yep. Coming up in plans, we're gonna be working on exclusions, subshapes, basically an area within an annotation that you are now excluding or subtracting from that, from that annotation. We're also gonna be working on, letting you designate the area on the upload that the OCR is gonna run for items like sheet name, sheet number, description, and improve that improve that performance when it comes to actually naming naming the sheets. Over on plans manager for web, we're gonna be working on bringing a map view in. The the the project map view, the one in iOS has been, has been very liked. We wanna bring that over to over to over to manager as well. So we're we're exploring options to do that. And then over on our mobile app, we will be increasing the zoom level on that map view. This was one that I I got pulled aside several times at UGM going, I wanna zoom in more on the map. I can't zoom in enough. I can zoom in more on standard map versus the satellite. What can I fix this? We're fixing it. It's coming out very soon. You'll be able to you'll be able to get down at the molecule level on that map with, with how much it can zoom. So I hope that's something y'all, I hope that's something y'all will enjoy and find use in. John, there were a couple of questions that came through from plan side of things. So first up is gonna be, do we have any updates to address instances where PDF upload to publish revised sheets contain sheets that are organized into different folders. So last time we checked, it was a little bit hard to update the sheets to replace the ones in the review process because it's hitting a specific folder. Yeah. Actually, this this and the next one about, the, ETA on updating the OCR, we're we're really kinda working on both of those at once. Being able to select what folder it's going into as well as the, being able to select the the o where the OCR is gonna work. This is something we're gonna start working on, coming up in next quarter. So about next month, we'll start working on it. We'll have it we'll have it out when it is ready for y'all to, when it's ready for y'all to to to start beating it up and telling us, telling us whether we whether we hit the whether we hit the mark on it. But, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say soon. I'm not gonna say later, but we are we are absolutely working on it. And if you follow the, road map site, you'll you'll see as it starts getting flaked out and getting closer. Sounds good. And it looks like there was a question that came through regarding, plans on Android. So we're gonna go ahead and launch a poll real quick. We like polls. Can everybody see that? Did every did that pop up? Hey. There it's going. Okay. Cool. Alright. Fifty votes so far, and I wish we could just display that to y'all so that y'all can see the results of that. Nice. So this is a constant conversation for us here at HTSS, and it's something that we, we take seriously. Obviously, iOS and Android have only market. Nobody's asking for, Windows Mobile any longer. Blackberry has is not in in business any longer, I think. I don't know. The The market has confined itself to two different groups, and we do our best to support both of them. But by attempting to support both of them, let's say, in HTSS field, we are devoting resources, spreading them, towards similar feature in both cases and not allowing us to move that much further ahead by focusing on one, which is what we've chosen to do in plans, which is why plans is able to continue to deliver such great features because they're able to focus on just one platform, which has really helped them optimize. But we don't wanna leave our Android, friends behind, on the on the on the HSS field side with heavy job and safety. So, that is something that we we talk about. We talk about quite frequently, and so I appreciate everybody, responding in here. If I hit end, I guess does it let me share results? Alright. Well, everybody can see the results, on this one. IOS, definitely with the lion's share, but a lot of that can be just because, it's part of our recommendation to you. It's because you're gonna get stuff earlier on iOS than you are on Android for heavy job and safety, and you're not gonna get it even, for plans. But definitely a a good conversation, and thanks everybody for participating in that poll. Alright. I'll hand it back to whoever's next. Alright. We're all done talking about plans. Next up, we're gonna talk about heavy job, and I'm super glad that Adam dated us by only mentioning BlackBerry and not mentioning something like PalmPilot. That would have felt odd. The the first version of HeavyJob Mobile was for the Palm Pilot, and I would be very interested if there's anybody on the call that ever saw that in action, because that was trying to do a time card with a little tiny stylus in your hand, not optimal. We we appreciate the fact that Apple came out with the tablet. It really changed things for us. So, anyway Alright. Let's get past that. Let's talk about heavy job dot com for a second. We've got a few topics here. First of all, there is a status toggle now on the foreman picker on reports. So when you go to reports in heavy job dot com, you could always go filter by foreman, but you couldn't, necessarily get the inactive foreman to show up on there. So now we have this all foreman. If you select all foreman, you will get not only your active foreman, but your inactive form. So any of the reports where you had this option already, you could click the the link to open up this, form and filter. You can now include your inactive. I won't go through a list of all the reports, but a lot of them have the form and filter in there because we're filtering by job date foreman in many instances. So now you got a way to get those in active foreman and their time cards, their cost codes, their other, data into your reports. Make this a little bit easier. Let's go next. So this is a big one. If you went to UGM, you got to see the first peak of this. This literally released, in the week before UGM this year. Plans photo integration. This is not just a heavy job feature. This is, plans and heavy job coming together. So in plans, you could already take photos, but then you go over into heavy job where you're doing a lot of your daily and weekly reporting, and you couldn't see those photos. You could see the photos that you took in field. In fact, you could see those photos in the photos of docs tool. You could see them in the daily digest. In heavy job dot com, you could see them on your iPad in HCSS field also. Now if you take those photos in plans, you can see them in the daily digest in heavy job dot com. They'll show up right in line there. There are a few little details about, you know, who that user is, and their permissions. We won't dive into that right now, but, ultimately, they're showing up there, and then we're gonna take some next steps. We're gonna have them show up in the photos and docs tool, and then, eventually, we'll get them into the HSS field app so that you see them there as well. So this is a a great step forward in bringing those two products together and making the experience a little bit more seamless. And, obviously, you're getting these photos in the field, so we expect that, your other folks in the field wanna wanna see those also. So look forward to some improvements on that. Let's talk about change orders a little bit. Britney, you taking over here? Yeah. Yeah. So if you guys are regulars, you'll be like, oh, wow. This looks like the exact same slide as last month because it is. So we're still working on it, and we're actually, very close to releasing our first little piece for, the folks that have already reached out and shared interest for being beta customers. I'm actually anticipating releasing that this week, which is very exciting. So, just in case you're new here and you don't know what the heck we're doing with change orders, we're looking at it from a couple different angles. So first angle is, providing a log. I will mention that, right now it says change order log, but we've changed it so that it's going to be potential change order log, and that is a direct result of some of our customers that have, shared interest in providing feedback. So from conversations, we've been able to massage this project to go in the right direction. So little plug if you're interested in providing feedback or perspective, feel free to reach out to me because we're we really do take that in stride. So the log is for packaging up information so that you can understand how your scope has changed. And then we are also gonna be looking at how to update your budget from a potential change order. And another piece, that we're working on will be the mobile aspect. So how do we communicate changes in scope to your foreman? I have a lot of questions actually on how that process, needs to look for you guys. When when do your foreman need to know about a potential change order? When when do you want them to know about it? Sometimes you might not wanna know want them to know about it. So if you are interested in providing your perspective and giving your feedback, reach out to me. My email is right there. Also, if you're interested in being a beta customer, I already got my list. If you've already reached out, don't worry. I've got you. We'll we'll be sending something out later this week tomorrow. And so, that's that's it on change orders for now, but, yeah, looking out for some, exciting releases if you're on our beta list. Let's see. We get any questions in there. Not right now. Alright. Next up is talking about some of the dashboard improvements in head job dot com. Jonathan, take it away. Alright. So dashboard is kind of the front door to heavy job, and so you may have noticed some of these changes already. There's several that we did to the dashboard just to make it a little bit more interactive, kinda tailor it to whatever you were needing out of this. For some people, that's more of a manual kind of on demand process. If they're processing larger sets of data, they may or may not want to fire that off as soon as they open the software. So, as you can see in the screenshot there, right in the middle, it says run report, and we've got the option to either automatically have that fire off when you open the page or, you can choose to do it on demand instead. We also, you know, if it is taking a little bit longer to load, if you got a large dataset and you realize, oh, maybe I need to adjust some filters, apply some tags, do something to really kinda chisel in on what exactly I'm looking for. You can do that while the report is loading. So just kinda helps to tailor your experience as well as providing a little bit more of an updated look and feel. Alright. We can hop over to the next slide here. Another part of that that we got some feedback on is just that, you know, some folks want to hop into a different page, whenever they're opening heavy job dot com. Of course, we've got the great dashboard that that can, you know, display some information across jobs, kinda show you where you're at. But we've also got some folks that may just be going into approved time cards or or checking on the forecast as the first part of their workflow. So, if you click on your name in the upper right hand corner of heavy job dot com, you'll now see a start page option, and that will open up this drop down, that allows you to, pick from six different options, including use defaults. So that's, you know, just defaults as it always has based on a user's access. So for you heavy job admins out there, have no fear. Only the pages that a user has access to will be listed for them to choose from. So, you know, if if someone doesn't have access to quantities adjustment, they won't be able to kinda hop into that from here. If, say, for instance, they only have access to the time card module, that will be the only option that appears in that drop down. So, we included six kinda based on that left hand menu, the ones that were, you know, most commonly used and also ones that we didn't have to kinda chisel down to different reports and things like that. So, I did wanna do a quick poll, though, and to see out of those options, I was curious, you know, which of those preferred start pages do you guys, think you'll you'll use? Would you continue to use the dashboard? Are you wanting to hop over to the daily digest or the time card? Or there at the very bottom, there's an other option as well, which that one I'm particularly curious about. If if there's a page on there that you're not seeing that you would like to default to, toss that in the chat and just let us know, which one you would prefer, to be able to start from instead. As I mentioned before, you know, some of the reports that are kind of, you know, buried down in the folder structure might be a little bit trickier to have as an option, but we definitely wanna hear, which page you'd like to go to first, Sam. Alright. We've got about fifty percent of our viewers have participated. K. So definitely seeing a lot of response for the time card screen. That was to be, expected. We've got a lot of you folks that that wanna just hop in and and approve or review time cards. I've seen a few for the daily digest and some that just prefer to stay on the dashboard, so that's where some of those other, new options will come in handy. Alright. So it looks like in the chat, we had some some of the others, respond as, hey. As an admin, I'd like to, you know, go to the admin pages. I'm guessing that would be under the the setup menu, perhaps the preferences. Great. We'll go ahead and end the poll there. It looks like most of us have gotten our answers in, but thank you so much for the feedback on that. We'll go ahead and share the results. So what this tells me is that we don't have enough payroll people on the call, Britney. You put a lot of time into the export to accounting tool, and nobody wants that to be the first. Maybe it's just that people just don't want to see that first thing. That's what they're they have to do that later on. These these folks have their process right. They're doing their time card review. Maybe they're looking at reports to make sure everything's good, and then they run into export to I'm not I'm not taking any offense to this. It's a good deal. It's a good deal. Alright. Well, there's a lot of love there for the dashboard and the time card. Shouldn't be too surprised there. Do we have any q and a that came in for, if dev dot com that we wanna hit upon before moving on to talk about field ACSS field? Yeah. So, couple of, couple of definite requests for doing the, let's say, the admin page, as an option on there. And I'm guessing project management also is is an option, is something that people are gonna wanna see. Couple of people are experiencing errors, and I've chatted with our development team, and they are looking at those right now. We are sorry about that, but, hopefully, they'll get that fixed up in a minute. But you're you're literally on the phone with the port when you're with us. So, yeah, if you put those errors in there, we can, forward those to the right place. They're standing by. So we, we're gonna get that get that, right now. There was a question regarding the daily digest and the photos, before we move off of the web. And so the question was from Josh. It would be great if when I click on the daily digest photo, it would go to full screen and be able to be zoomed in on. So definitely, definitely a good idea there. We have to see there's a there's an issue with loading and making sure that we're not, not everybody is gonna want that full screen every time. Sometimes you just wanna dig in, see if it's the right photo before getting the full screen. And so maybe there's some ability of giving you a a range. But the the resolution of the photos we've noticed continues to increase. The cameras are not getting worse. They're getting better every time. So it's these are definitely large files that we're having to load for you. Alright. And then, one last question just came in from Gina. Britney, is the export to Timberline up yet? Yeah. I was just gonna chat her. So we do support Timberline. It's it just depends on the way your format needs to happen. So if, Gina, I would recommend you can, call our support team. They should be able to help you get that set up, and answer that. And I apologize if I, had said I was gonna reach out and I didn't. I am sorry. Always feel free if if anyone emails me and I don't respond, feel free to send me a second email. There's no shame in that. Alright. Shall we keep moving? Let's keep moving. Let's talk about, oh, you got more. Don't you, John? I do. Yes. So we've made some more adjustments to the time card adjustment tool or the TCAT as we like to call it for short. So we've improved it overall to add immediate feedback when the filter is applied. So this is, you know, kinda similar to the changes we made on the dashboard. You'll also see in the actual column filters there, you can see in the screenshot under under code. Previously, it would show, you know, say if we had code c c one multiple times within that data pool, it might show multiple instances of that. Now they just wrap up to the code level, so that way you can select multiple codes at once really quickly. And across the board, we're just trying to handle errors more gracefully, giving you a little bit more information. Of course, we all know how, technology works and and, you know, every now and then, it's gonna, flag something or there might be an issue with a connection or an error running report. So whenever things like that happen, we just wanna let you know as as quickly as possible so you can know if you need to reload the page, call support, or, you know, just give it a little bit more time to load. So, the concurrent adjustment tool is one that our our customers used to pull large datasets for, you know, prepayroll and things like that. So, if there are, you know, things going on that are slowing that down, we want want you to be aware of that. So alright. Ironically ironically, if you were to run the TCAT right now, you'd get this error. So we've just heard that from our developers. It looks like there is an Azure outage, which is affecting the ability of some of the screens to pull data. So they are working on trying to swap that in Azure, but this might mean a call from us to Microsoft to try and get that going. Typically, when this happens, it's it's hopefully just a five minute problem. But we can keep you up to date throughout the second half of the webinar, so you can experience this live with us of what happens when stuff doesn't work and what we have to do. So we'll, we'll keep moving, though. Alright. Let's move into the mobile realm. First, something, just a small improvement in quality of life. When you're in the, HSS field time card and you pull in crew, you pull in crew from, my field, for instance, it will give you an answer that says, hey. We we did it. We we got your info. But if it doesn't work, and there can be various connectivity reasons why it doesn't work, you would not necessarily get any kind of feedback. And so you might sit there and wonder what's going on. We actually heard this quite a bit that whenever it doesn't work, I don't know it, and I stand there for a couple seconds. So just a small improvement there that, anytime that actually happens, you'll get some, direct feedback. No crew was found. That's why nothing came up. This same thing happens when you pull in GPS hours or you pull in clocked hours. They suffered the same thing. So now you're just getting a little bit more feedback on why that happened. Something we've talked about in the past is that we're actually making, some significant improvements kinda behind the scenes to the way, the HSS field app communicates back with our servers, you don't necessarily see those results until we start doing little things like this. We're improving the way it communicates with the web, and that has opened the door for us to provide a lot better feedback whenever you are sending, whenever you're pulling, whenever it is synchronizing. So those things have been slowly rolling out to our customers. They have not all rolled out, I should say it hasn't rolled out to a hundred percent of our customers yet. As we get that stuff out to everybody, you'll start to see some improvements to the way we communicate about the synchronization of information to your tablet. And, moving on, staying in the realm of mobile, Adam is gonna talk a little bit about HCS chats. Yes. So we've launched as some of you that have been listening in for the past couple of months on our monthly webinar, or showed up at users group meeting two weeks ago, we've launched HCSS chats. This is a built in feature within heavy job and safety, and soon to be planned at, at some point. But the ability to actually chat amongst other members of your well, the users within your company, and just be able to talk one on one. We know that most companies have something already working for their office people, whether it's Microsoft Teams or Google Chat or one of the other options. There's plenty of them out there, and you pretty much mastered that, getting a hold of people in the office. But extending that down to the field has always been tricky. And while some companies have done a great job and they get their field guys using Teams, and I'm I'm not gonna say loving it because it's Teams, and it's not really built for, the field. But they're using it, and it's working for them. That's totally, totally cool. But for those that have not yet been able to extend that down to the field, it can be a little bit hard getting a hold of the people, whether that's making sure you have the right cell phone number, or WhatsApp group, we see sometimes. This is a built in chat functionality within the HSS field app, within heavy job dot com on the safety, dashboard. Ability to chat one on one between each other, to create groups, to create channels for project, you know, West Airport Road. You create a channel for that, and anybody that's on West Airport Road working on that, whether it's the PM, the engineer, the foreman, super, whoever cares about that project can join in and discuss stuff related to that project. So a really cool feature, and it's already been turned on for and I did ask this question, of our developers about thirty minutes ago, about a thousand of our customers, and the others hopefully will be turned on soon, in the next couple of days. So if you're interested in that, by all means, check it out. It should be, it should be good to go. You can obviously turn it off by user within the credentials website. And so you you should be able to access that, just turning it on, turning it off in credentials, and then there on your home page in heavy job or in the HCSS field app. So if we go to the next slide there, Frank, wanna point out one cool part of Android, because we don't all can get to talk about how they're that much further ahead. In Android, you can actually see the photos that are sent within these, messages within within HTSS chats directly there within your notifications drawer. So we really like this picture. The developers were able to put it together, and actually give you a preview of the photos being sent right there in the notifications drawer. So and then next up, just in case anyone was wondering, because we have gotten this question, is the other users in your company are not gonna show up on the list until they have logged in to heavy job dot com or they've updated their mobile app. It's gonna be one of those two things. So if they were already previously logged in to heavy job dot com and they have not yet logged in again since Chet was released, then they're gonna have to, log out and log back in. That is not the case for our mobile users. They really just have to make sure that they're updated to the most recent version of the mobile app, and they'll be good to go there. We definitely care a lot about your foreman, and we don't like having to ask them to log out and log back in to gain functionality. And so we asked our lovely developers if they could, help us with that, and they came up with something that did not require them to log back out and log back in. And with chat, there is one other aspect of it. This is how it would look on the time card screen there at the slide up to the right, which is HCSS Copilot. And that is just your assistant on the side of the screen. We've really just gotten started with that. We have a long way to go. We've talked about it in the past. I'm not gonna belabor that point, but it's now out for everyone that has chats enabled at this point on the web. We're not extending it down to the field just yet, but you are able to ask questions, related to heavy job and safety and plans and forms right now. So, it is somewhat knowledgeable about those. It is learning every day. It's very interesting to see some of the responses and, see its ability to to respond, correctly in in the majority of cases, which is kinda nice. We're working right now on actually giving it knowledge of your data. So So you'll be able to start asking it questions like, hey. Which jobs do I need to focus on, or which time cards are missing, or who did this thing that was stupid? That's negative. Who did this thing that we should, really give him a congratulations? You did a great job on. That sort of thing. We're gonna be able to have you ask you questions regarding contract documents and plan sheets and stuff like that. So we have a long way to go on this, but if you'd like to try it out, once you, get chats loaded up on the on the right side of your heavy job dot com, you should be able to start asking questions and see how it works. Looks like there were a few questions there. Thomas is asking, is there a plan to have the chat also on HCSS Myfield? Great question. Right now, Chet is available as part of the Myfield subscription just as it's part of the heavy job safety plan subscription. It's just not in the Myfield app. So much like the inspection capabilities within our Myfield, users, you it it requires you to open up the HCSS field app. Now it doesn't require a field subscription. You're not paying that extra amount because it is a MyField user, but you do have full access to HCSS chat. You just have to have them download the, HCSS field app like they're doing for inspections right now and a couple of other the features in my field. So so Arthur is asking, turn it off by user or by subscription group for chat. It's part of subscription groups. Same as if you wanted to turn off the time card or turn on the time card for a group, you do that within the subscription group, and so that is where chat is located. And I just got a word from support that the issue with Azure has been resolved. So those of you that were having trouble loading the page, go ahead and refresh and see how it's working for you now. I'm gonna do that myself. I confirmed it's back. Thanks. Alright. There we go. We're gonna make sure to send our good friends at Azure a fruit basket and ask them not to not to let it happen again. So, other questions on chats. Awesome. Was asking, eventually, are we able to host meetings using h using HCSS chats? Good question. At the moment, the answer is no. But we will see if that functionality is something that, a, is possible, and b, what it would take for us to implement it. Okay. There sorry, Andrew. On a follow-up question on that, I'm curious if that's for, helping out the foreman in the field, with what's going on on the device. I think that's something that we've heard before. Just curious if that's what that's going from. If you could answer back in the chat, love to hear your answer on that. No. Definitely definitely a good question there. There might be a potential for us that we've seen to do video calls within a CSS chat. So within the mobile app, so you'd be able to call somebody. I don't know about actually hosting and setting a meeting, but we can definitely check that. So it's good to know why you're looking to do that, as Andrew mentioned, so that we can understand that and try and, solve that problem for you. So let's see. There's a couple more. Maribel is asking, does it save the conversation? It, it does save the conversations right now. It is something that we're looking at and possibly giving you the option of wiping them after a certain amount of days, which you would set. But right now, all the conversations are saved within the chats. Let's see. Hector's asking, will the chat work with heavy job desktop manager software? It will not. Now if you're a hybrid company, you can absolutely access it within, the web. So you can go to heavy job dot com and access it there. We can't make it work with our desktop software, unfortunately. Caitlin's asking for how do you sign up for beta testing? That would be really just emailing us and saying, I'm interested in learning about new things, and getting these things ahead of time. So Copilot went to beta, back in October, November, and change orders is about to go into beta quite soon with Britney. So if you're interested in in those, by all means, reach out. But, really, it just means letting us know, hey. I'm interested in what you're doing ahead of time, and we'd be happy to get treat you like a guinea pig and test you out on it. So alrighty. There is a couple more questions coming through, but we're gonna we're gonna handle these as part of our lightning round, and and move on a little bit, in our program here. Alright. So just a few things, about other small things that we've released in HeavyJob as well as we'll hit on in just a second some stuff that's coming up. In your heavy job dot com reports, specifically in the weekly time card report, user filters were not completely saving correctly, not saving at all. So if you, filled out those filters, navigated away, came back, you're having to fill those in again. Just saving you a few clicks here. Those filters are gonna be saved by user. So your filters aren't gonna show up for someone else. They'll show up for just you. John was hitting on this second bullet point a little bit. HeavyJob is increasingly being used by larger and larger companies, with larger business units, with larger, numbers of people in the field, more cost codes, more jobs, more time cards. So we have started an effort to get ahead of that and make sure the HeavyJob is performing well under those higher data volumes and higher data loads. One of the places that we're paying attention to that is in reports. So you if if you have those kinds of high data volumes especially, you will start to see improved load times in certain reports. And, you you know, honestly, if you're seeing any issues with that kind of performance, we wanna hear from you. So definitely reach out to the support teams and let them know. We we talk with the support teams on a regular basis daily for sure, but we kinda sync up with them monthly. And when they see kind of a volume of of, complaints honestly for that kind of stuff, they they tabulate that stuff and they share it with us. So we wanna know that. Even if you're not working under those data, big data volumes, you're still probably gonna see some kind of performance improvements, but kind of the percentage gain there will be lower for you. Trying to keep everything fast. This last one is an API conversation. We've mentioned this in the past that every now and again, we wanna touch on APIs even though they're a little bit hard to show in these demos. But APIs are all about integrations. Right? It's a way for you to integrate, our applications with other applications that you're using out in the world or your own systems internally, your ERPs, your HR systems. And webhooks is a tool that allows, essentially your other pieces of software to be notified when something changes in heavy job, for instance. In this case, we added what's called a webhook to cost code setups. An example of this is if for a job a cost code is changed or a cost code is added, your other solution, your other piece of software could get a notification automatically without you having to do anything that tells it, hey. This cost code has been updated or removed. You could see this kind of an integration going on with your ERP. Or maybe if you have a third party hauling solution, in which you are recording material receipts against a specific cost code, and that's something we're actively doing. We're integrating with some material solutions out there. So that solution can get notified, hey. This cost code was added. It could get added into their system. And then when somebody in the field is receiving that material, they could receive it directly against a cost code that is now in sync with Heavy Child cost codes. That's something that we are looking to expand upon to add these these webhooks so that two pieces of software know when data is being added, is being removed, is being changed, and they can keep in in sync and create a more seamless experience. That also allows you to use heavy job as a source of truth for the cost codes, in this case, that you're actually using on a job so that other systems don't have to essentially be set up in advance. And it simplifies your life. You only have to set that stuff up once, and then you'd let the synchronization between the two pieces of software take care of the rest for you. There will be more to come on that. Cost codes and a few other setups, were an early target for us. Let's talk a little bit about what's coming up. Okay. This is a really long list, so let's just be clear. This is not all coming up next month. We're not gonna say all of this stuff was released when we get to this in March. Some of it will be, but we're making progress on these things. In heavy job dot com, the TCAT tool, that's time card adjustment tool. There's gonna be some more filtering options that show up there to make that a little bit easier for you to use. This is administrative stuff we're talking about right now. The improved job setup grids. So there's employee grids, equipment grids, rate set grids. Over the course of last year, you've heard us talking about a lot of these grids, are getting improvements that allow you to use them all in the same way. For instance, seeing more of the data that is being held in the job grid, including, the custom accounting fields that you set up for ERP integrations, making those not only visible but editable, showing tags in those grids for the tags applied to jobs and applied to cost codes, making them editable directly in the grid, better support for export to Excel and the PDF, things like that. So we are rolling out those improvements to all the grids across setups gradually. So employees, equipment, rate sets, they're coming soon. Change orders, we've talked about that. I'm not gonna dive in further, but just a reminder, that the change order stuff is going and is gonna keep going for at least a couple more months. Actually, there's a bullet down in HCSS field for the same thing. That is not just a heavy job dot com feature. Let's talk about field for a second. In the last couple months, we rolled out the ability to select from your material library and field when you are adding materials to a cost code. We did that in iOS. It is now coming out for Android as well. And we had that poll earlier. There's a pretty good number of y'all that are using Android explicitly or a mix of Android and iOS. So this is keeping Android in parity with, HSS field for Android. I'm sorry. Keeping in parity with HSS field for iOS. Over the past couple of months, we've released some time card warnings, having to do with safety. We released one for any missing JHAs, and that was only on HSS Field for iOS. The one for Android is coming soon, and we are rolling out a new one for any missing equipment inspection. So if you got a piece of equipment on your time card, and you want to require that those pieces of equipment have an equipment inspection every day, you can you will now be able to get a warning for that. That's gonna come to iOS first. We talked about this performance with large datasets when I was up in the heavy job dot com section. We're doing the exact same for HCSS field. All those jobs, all those cost codes, they flow down to HCSS field, and we are working on making sure the HSS field will perform well under those big loads. Actually, that last bullet point on this slide, I'm gonna come back and talk about, a scenario in which that is specifically of interest to us. I don't know how many of y'all are using a MDM or an MAM. That is a mobile device management solution in the MDM scenario. A lot of y'all are using that to control the deployment of mobile applications to your users throughout the company and especially in the field. It's a way for IT to basically make it easier for your users to get the apps that they need and to configure them and to conform them to the way that y'all manage credentials in the company. We are adding support to HCSS field and actually to plans as well. For Microsoft's solution for MDM and specifically MAM, I'm talking a little bit of IT geekiness here, but that is mobile application management. They have a solution called Intune. And if your company is using Intune, we will have support for for that in both field and, plans for starters. One of the advantages there is that your IT can better control, the security of the app the HCSS applications and the data held in them to make sure that, no data leaks out, when devices are accessed inappropriately. One of the big uses there is making sure that data is specific targets of this implementation. We mentioned this at UGM. A lot of times, on the operations side, we may not think about the security of our data. That's up to IT. But, honestly, IT keeps our data safe, the company safe, and that keeps our job safe. So we all have a great reason to care about IT being really good at this. It keeps us all paid and employed. And as you hear the horror stories, when companies get hacked, it hits the bottom line hard. So we are highly interested in making sure that you can keep your data secure. We mentioned change orders. I won't hit on that again. As we talked about the photos and docs tool being improved with, plans photos. That is only in h heavy job dot com. That will eventually be coming to the field app as well, so look for that one. Company announcements in HCSS chats. Adam, do you have anything, any kind of color commentary on that one? Yeah. So it's it's one of the things that we has been asked for as part of chats is the ability to just blast out a message to all of the users within your company or business unit for those that are enterprise companies. It would be, permissioned so that you wouldn't just let anybody talk to everybody at the company all at once. But, it's meant to be just a big announcement thing like, Merry Christmas. Hope everybody enjoys the break. Or, you know, work is you know, season starting up next week. Be sure to show up at the all hands meeting, on Monday, that sort of thing. It's meant to be used for those just blanket announcements to everybody where you wanna inform everybody, hopefully, for just positive stuff. But we understand there are other situations as well. And so that will be something that we're working on, hopefully, leading up into the early summer. Right. We talked about mobile encryption. That was really part of the discussion about, Microsoft Intune. I mentioned the big volume of data, and we are improving performance in our apps to handle that. One of the reasons is because we are now driving an initiative to better solve problems for utilities industry and, specifically, people doing utility services work. It's kinda work that falls under MSAs, work orders. So I wanted to launch a poll of some more color on that first. That means that people who might do a long linear job like a main gas line, may also be doing services work, replacement work on that, and that might be happening in residential neighborhoods, property by property. And the volume of those work orders coming in, which are modeled like a job, can be high, and the number of cost codes and pay hours for those can be high. So all of a sudden, there's a lot of setup data showing up in heavy job. That's where the conversation about the high volume of data coming in really started. As we do a better job of serving those, use cases, we're seeing a high data volume coming in. The question I wanted to to get in front of y'all is how many of y'all are actually doing utilities work? Adam, would you mind launching that poll while I'm talking here for a second? I would like to under I think I labeled it as there we go. I'd like to know how many of y'all are doing utility service work as a main part of your business, only a slice or not at all? Barely close for a main line of business and just a slice of our work. You're neck and neck at about thirty three and thirty six, and the other third at nope. That's interesting. We'll let that flow for just a few seconds. Over the next year especially, but really we see this as a long term improvement project. We will be diving in more and more on this problem, and, I will gather these answers and the folks that answered on some of those and and likely reach out to some of y'all to better understand how you're operating. Alright. That's pretty good. I'll end that poll. It ended up in about, thirty percent for being your main line of business, forty percent for just a slice, and thirty percent for nope, not at all. Appreciate the feedback. End that and share, and we will move on. So we are close to the end. I'll leave this here while we browse the q and a list and do a lightning round on answering questions. Adam, do you have any teed up already? Yeah. There were there there were lots of questions. We really enjoyed the participation, from y'all during the webinar. Makes things more fun for us. So with five minutes left, let's see what we can handle. There's a lot here. So, Dennis was asking earlier, can you now see photos in the field app from other users? The answer to that is yes. So within the photos module, you are able to actually specify the user can that they wanna see photos from all users. It is still gonna be there by job. So you need to specify which job as well, but you're able to download photos that other users have sent in in addition to photos that you have sent in on other devices. Sometimes we'll see the foreman taking photos with their phone, but then doing the time card on the iPad. So, Bill is asking since this is being recorded, is it possible for us to have a copy along with the PDF present of the PDF presentation afterwards? Probably, but we're gonna have to clean it up, because we do a lot of extra stuff in there. But we can probably clean that up and get that to you and anyone else that would like a a copy of the PDF. Sure. Poncho was asking about HTSS insights, which you saw a couple of weeks ago at UGM. Wondering how this will be integrated with dashboards in the heavy job. Pancho, great question. We actually Frank and I were in a meeting discussing this very thing yesterday about possibly the potential of allowing you to customize your dashboard using the insights embedded Power BI stuff that will be coming online, throughout this year. It's a good question. I think in theory, most users are gonna be okay with this the standard default dashboard we give them, but you're gonna have power users. A lot of them are on this call that are gonna wanna be able to customize their dashboard completely. And being able to do an embedded, Power BI like what we're doing in HSS insights definitely sounds like a good way of handling that. And so we're gonna be looking at it. I can't promise it'll be this year, but it's definitely a conversation that we've already started here. Anne was asking for the the ability to add an additional, today option when entering a custom date range. Should we see that on date pickers ourselves when we're entering in stuff? It just makes things easier when you're doing a custom date range. The ability to quickly plug in today. Love that as a, like, a nice small feature that we can try and fit in somewhere. It's a good idea, Anne. Some of these we already answered. I'm gonna scroll down. About wanting to see a a better phone view, for project managers reviewing time cards. We hear you. That that's great feedback. We we talk about that. So, I think it was Brianna that mentioned that. Great comment, Brianna. That is that is a great comment. I was debating with, actually and I know Jose wrote in there about that as well as being able to review and approve time cards. That might be worth a poll, not one that we can set up in the next two seconds, but, maybe one for, next month. Just discussing that ability is how much of that manager mobile functionality do you want to see on your phone? Because right now, you are you're very limited from a phone perspective as to how much you can do as a as a mobile manager. So that's a good topic we can discuss next month. Rianna was also asking, can you change the cost from material if someone who adds it enters a job? I'm actually gonna go because I have this pulled up, and it's gonna let me share this. Are y'all good? Can y'all see that? Yeah. We had a couple of questions where show and tell is a lot easier for us. So, yes, you can change the unit cost of a material. So I went into the job list. I chose my job. I went to purchase orders. And here on the purchase order list and, obviously, sales company is not ideal for showing things, but at least I can come in here. I can choose my material, and I can update the cost here to twenty bucks per cubic yard. And it's even gonna warn you, your changes will affect all transactions that have already been put in. So if somebody's already put in something and it was a mistake there, you're now able to put that in. And because I'm showing, I can't see any of the questions anymore, but there were several others related to chat. One of which is where in credentials will you be able to see that? So that's gonna be right here. And so I've logged in to my company. I've chosen groups. I've chosen the group that I wanna enable chats for, and it's actually gonna be a separate box here. So you'll find heavy job right here with its full list of options here. As long as heavy job or safety or plans or my field has been turned on for this group, HCSS chats will be available. And when you click on that, you're really just checking a single box there. At some point, I'm sure we will have additional permissions, perhaps one related to company announcements. Who knows? That'll have additional check boxes there. But for now, it's a single check box. You turn it on, and they should be good to go on the web once they log out and log back in. Last question is where chat would show up. Were you able to see it? It's gonna be right here, and you'll be able to talk to people, and you'll be able to, chat to Copilot. And, hopefully, we'll be able to get support chat built in so it's not up here, any longer, and it's actually gonna be built into HTTPS chats as well. I'm gonna stop sharing my screen because I can't really see any oh, actually, I found the question button. Cool. Actually, I'm lost. Anyway, we are at eleven o'clock. If there were any questions that we failed to failed to answer because so many came through, we'll do our best to get back to you directly. Thank you everybody for tuning in. We will be here next month, last Thursday of the month, ten o'clock central. Invite your friends. Share the invite with whoever you'd like. It's it's a good show most of the time. We'll see what happens. Hopefully, nothing breaks next month. See you, everybody. See you in thirty ish days.