What's New December 2020

Inspection Updates

• In a major upgrade, now third party inspectors and subcontractors can review, edit, and approve inspections by any of their affiliated inspectors in a controlled way. Restricted users can view planned inspections that their affiliation can inspect but not inspections assigned to users of other affiliations. They can view and edit inspections by users of the same affiliation and report corrections on deficiencies assigned to their company. Everything related to their affiliation is visible on FTQ360 dashboards. This gives subcontractors or third party agencies the ability to use FTQ360 for their end-to-end inspection workflow starting with their inspection queue, conducting inspections, reporting corrections, and obtaining approvals, ultimately getting their work passed.
  
  • • Help Article: Restricted User with "View Only (non-license)" permissions
    • Help Article: Add Restricted Users (View and Edit Only)
• Icons reflecting inspection status is refined based on user feedback. Now you can scan down listings to easily see completed inspections that still have open items. This is important to know when deficiencies are the only thing left to do to pass the inspection.
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  • • Help Article: Enter a New Inspection

Inspection Emails

• On email notifications, choose a default subject line format that has the important information your recipients need to see at a glance. Choose from a list of formats in the Email Customization and Settings page. Do you have format you’d like to see? Please email support@FTQ360.com with your suggestion.
  • • Help Article: Email Customization & Additional Settings

• A new option to default your inspection emails to project personnel. Previously inspection email “To:” defaulted to the responsible party. You can still select and edit email addresses as before. Set the “email to” to the project email list on the customization preferences screen.

• Now all emails sent by FTQ360 are also emailed as a BCC to an email address you choose. This gives you the ability to establish a repository for archiving automated FTQ360 reports and communications for backup purposes.

  • • Help Article: Edit Company Details

Dashboards

• A new Project Inspection Progress dashboard. Never again wonder where you stand on the completion of inspections on a project. The current status of every started inspection is shown with a checkpoint bar indicating overall completion percent and how many deficiencies are still open. The colors coordinate with the completion status of the inspection itself. Tap and the line item to open up the inspection for a closer look. This dashboard includes all project inspections, planned or not.
  • Help Article: Project Inspection Progress Screen

User Permissions

• “Inspected by Me” is a new inspection access permission. You can use “Inspect by Me” permission for tightly controlling third party inspector access to only inspections they create. This permission gives an inspector permission to inspect on allowable projects but not allowing them to view any inspections performed by others.
  • • Help Article: Add or Edit User Permissions

Inspection Archive

• Archive grids now have active search fields highlighted so that you know for sure what is filtering your listing grid.
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  • • Help Article: All Inspections List (Archive)
    • Help Article: All Deficiencies List (Archive)

ITP (Inspection and Test Plans)

• Scheduling inspections on large projects just got easier. Now you can collapse all phases and see the overall timeline and open just the phase that interests you. And you can expand them all when you need it.
  • • Help Article: ITP Scheduler (ITP Scheduling Timeline)

Reports

• Get long reports broken up into one pdf file per inspection. When project closeout or clients require one pdf file per inspection, now you have the option of running them all at once and choose “Spilt the report”. FTQ360 will out put them all as individual pdf reports and put them all into a zip file. This is an advanced enterprise feature activated on request.
  • • Help Article: Run Online Reports

Setup Screens

• Setup screens now default to listing only active items. A toggle button reveals inactive items. Previously both active and deactivated item were listed.
  • • Help Article: Edit a Checklist
    • Help Article: Edit a Project
    • Help Article: Edit a Responsible Party
    • Help Article: Edit a User
• The setup of checklist templates for a project just got an upgrade. Now you can decide which checklist templates are active for a project, and then decide if it should be active for the entire project or just some phases. It is much easier to use than the previous method that used multiple screens.
  • • Help Article: Associate Projects to a Checklist