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It has been a particularly busy time for the product management and development team at Zutec, as we’ve been gearing up for Release 117 of our platform. This is one I’m particularly excited about, as we’re releasing our new Form Builder. “Why?” you may say. “It’s a revamp, not a shiny new feature like ‘Raise Linked Issue’ or ‘per photo GPS co-ordinates for Regulation 40’,” (Ok, you might not say that exactly!). With the later updates being the topic for a future post.
I like the new Form Builder because it highlights a huge priority for our roadmap going forwards – user experience. Having worked in a lot of industries and coming into construction last year, I can see that the quote “Construction is the least digitised industry with the greatest need for digitisation” is true. But something the industry is only just coming to realise is that digitisation isn’t just taking existing function and putting it on a computer – it’s also a chance to make every single user’s experience and day-to-day work better. More streamlined. More intuitive. More fun! And that’s what we want to do at Zutec.
Our previous Form Builder is an incredibly powerful piece of function, allowing you to replicate any paper form including pages and signatures, or create a whole new digital checklist from scratch. But we have had feedback that it can be hard to use for our customers. We’ve also heard it needs to be more accessible, especially given a lot of our users are not familiar with software in general.
The new Form Builder is so important to me because it illustrates three principles of Product Management that we look to embody:
The new Form Builder gives us a chance to improve this and is the pre-cursor to a whole raft of user experience improvements we’re planning over the next year.
And as a final note, we’re expecting this to be an iterative process. Yes, we’ve listened and made changes, but our customers will always have more to say and we will want to continue to improve their experience in the system based on their feedback. Any product is more powerful with an engaged and constructive user base, so why not give it a go and if you have any feedback, please let us know either via your Customer Success Manager, or through requesting a new feature at our Support Portal.
Thanks for reading, and please tell us what you think!
Emily Hopson-Hill, Chief Operating Officer, Zutec
Zutec continues to improve the features and usability of our solution in order to deliver the best possible user experience to our customers. Below are the product updates for 2.116.0.
Feature: Report Adapters (API Endpoints)
A new modification has been implemented on the report adapters, to allow the administrator to set additional arguments to the report adapter URL, to set the offset and limit, as well as the search term.
This allows for further filtering of data sets.
The Offset and Limit parameters can be set on all Report Adapters.
The Search feature can be added to the Register Data with Reviews Report Adapter.
*Please contact support to enquire more about the Zutec API Endpoints.
Event Flow Feature allows the Super Admin to configure automatic event flows that occur based on a particular trigger, and actions.
A New Trigger Type has been added to Event Flow for Supersede.
Based on a File being superseded on a record, an event can be configured..
The Event Flow function is a newly-developed feature designed to trigger events in the system (such as an item being added, or a given time being reached) that can be used to trigger further actions in the system. Event Flows are configured via the Manage Event Flows section under the General Options section.
An Event Flow is started by a trigger. Optional condition(s) can be added to match data in a selected register field (or fields). From there, an action is set to trigger an event within the system.
This is a new feature whereby Review Notifications check for Security Filters so that users with the correct user permission receive the review notifications.
Zutec continues to improve the features and usability of our solution in order to deliver the best possible user experience to our customers. Below are the product updates for 2.116.0.
Feature: Report Adapters (API Endpoints)
A new modification has been implemented on the report adapters, to allow the administrator to set additional arguments to the report adapter URL, to set the offset and limit, as well as the search term.
This allows for further filtering of data sets.
The Offset and Limit parameters can be set on all Report Adapters.
The Search feature can be added to the Register Data with Reviews Report Adapter.
*Please contact support to enquire more about the Zutec API Endpoints.
Event Flow Feature allows the Super Admin to configure automatic event flows that occur based on a particular trigger, and actions.
A New Trigger Type has been added to Event Flow for Supersede.
Based on a File being superseded on a record, an event can be configured..
The Event Flow function is a newly-developed feature designed to trigger events in the system (such as an item being added, or a given time being reached) that can be used to trigger further actions in the system. Event Flows are configured via the Manage Event Flows section under the General Options section.
An Event Flow is started by a trigger. Optional condition(s) can be added to match data in a selected register field (or fields). From there, an action is set to trigger an event within the system.
This is a new feature whereby Review Notifications check for Security Filters so that users with the correct user permission receive the review notifications.
Quality Management is a fundamental part of any project, but its implementation is often time-consuming. At Zutec, we’re constantly making improvements to our platform to enable our clients to achieve maximum efficiency on their projects.
Our latest product updates 2.113.0 and 2.114.0 includes two entirely new features that will aid your Quality Management procedures; a new quality checklist builder and the ability to import existing project configurations.
You can use the Zutec Field app to closely track quality inspections and report progress on the Zutec dashboard. The app allows you to drop pins and perform analytics, linking inspection forms back to BIM elements to help you visualise the BIM model.
Depending on the scale of your project, the level of detail you want to track can vary. That’s why Zutec is fully customisable – you can use standard checks required on most projects, or you can adjust this if a higher level of intricacy is needed.
For example, while a standard check might include concrete pours, with Zutec you can add detail such as the mix-rate of the concrete used, measuring depths and dimensions, and other materials used. This is important because once a building is up and running, sooner or later you inevitably encounter problems. With Zutec, you don’t just know that all the right checks were performed, but you have a full register of what was inspected, when and by whom.
Having this dataset on your asset is essential during the operations phase, as you can easily identify any defects for quick remediation. However, it will also act as a safeguard, particularly with problems surrounding safety issues like fire stopping, and provide you with an added level of confidence in any insurance situation.
A key feature of the latest update is our new checklist builder, which streamlines the process of compiling quality management checklists. Previously a tedious, time-consuming activity where each page had to be built separately, this new feature is built to save you time. What might have taken a full working day in the past can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes.
The checklist builder guides you through the process, helping you select the data points you want to capture, making suggestions based on the most common requirements. You can, however, fully tailor it to suit your needs. The builder comes with over 50 pre-built templates, meaning that you can come to us without any pre-prepared documentation.
Zutec gives you more flexibility and freedom to manipulate your checklists than anything else currently on the market. Once a checklist has been created, you still have the ability to make further tweaks and modifications, adding more inputs if necessary. You have full access to the underlying data on the forms, adding tremendous value from a handover and FM perspective.
It’s now possible to easily import project configurations from one project to another by downloading them as a single file. This is a significant improvement, saving you time and streamlining processes.
On some projects, it can eliminate the need to build configurations from scratch. Once you have found a set-up that works, you can use it to automatically populate a new project in a completely seamless process. This means set-up and onboarding times are greatly reduced, including the confirmation of access permissions, which you can now assign at scale rather than individually.
To find out more, book a demo today.
This update includes a new UI/UX on the calendar module. Events can now easily span hours and days.
Day/Week/Month and year views have been added along with support for overlapping events with drag and drop functionality.
Zutec has added a new web hook feature can can integrate with Microsoft Automate.
Now you can define room and location boundaries on your drawings. Once setup you can drop pins into these areas and automatically capture associated data in to your forms.
As usual there are many minor updates and bug fixes to the software.
Users can now capture up to 30 seconds videos while in the field and attach them to snags and inspections.
Rooms and areas can now be defined on drawings so that when pins are dropped on these drawings the names of these rooms can be pulled into the snagging and inspection forms.
Field dashboards have received a UI/UX upgrade to make them look and feel much better.
When enabled GPS coordinates can also be captured into snags and inspection forms. These data can be used in dashboards etc.