QEST Platform 4.92 and 4.93
Applies to QESTField

This article describes how a field user can complete, sign and publish a daily summary field report for a work order.

Overview

A summarised version of the work completed on a work order can be collated and completed through the Daily Summary Field Report workflow. A report can be signed and published directly from QESTField so that a "copy" can be left on site.

General Details

The general details section provides fields for entering information about the day's work such as time on-site.

Field Prompt	Expected Information
Work Order ID	An automatically generated identifier for this work order.
Inspection Request No	Used to record an identifier for the inspection request.
Time Arrived	The time that the Field Technician/Inspector arrived.
Time Departed	The time that the Field Technician/Inspector departed.
Override Time On Site?	Checkbox which allows the user to edit the Time on Site.
Time on Site (h)	Calculated from Time Arrived and Time Departed.
Lunch Taken?	Yes, start and end times are displayed for entry. No, reason for no lunch are displayed for entry.
Lunch Start	The time that lunch was started.
Lunch End	The time that lunch was finished.
Reason for No Lunch	The reason no lunch was taken.
Total Distance Travelled (mi)	The total distance travelled to get to and from site.
Round-trip Travel Time (h)	The total time travelled to get to and from site.
Contractor	Select the contractor from the drop-down. This is populated from Contractor List (20034).
Building Permit Number	If applicable, the building permit number.
Equipment Observed	If applicable, any equipment observed while on site.
Weather	Select the weather from the drop-down. This is populated from Weather Conditions (20012).

An Administrator can set the type of units to display, metric or inch-pound, based on the laboratory level option Enable Imperial Units Formatting.

Work Summary

When other field work is completed on this work order a summary of this work is displayed.

Concrete Work

Field Prompt	Expected Information
Work Type	Always set as "Concrete Testing".
Location	The location of the work. See the information box below.**
Specimens	The number of specimens added to the Concrete Sample.
Count	The number of samples that have the same values for all of the above fields.

Soil Density

Field Prompt	Expected Information
Work Type	The type of soil density work, e.g., Nuclear Field Density.
Location	The location of the work. See the info box below.**
Tests Performed	The number of test locations (samples) that have the same values for all of the above fields.
Test Failures	The sum of test locations (samples) from the above grouping that are out of specification.

Asphalt Density

Field Prompt	Value
Work Type	The type of asphalt density work, e.g., Asphalt Density by Nuclear Method.
Location	The location of the work. See the info box below.**
Tests Performed	The number of test locations (samples) that have the same values for all of the above fields.
Test Failures	The sum of test locations (samples) from the above grouping that are out of specification.

Sample Pickups

Field Prompt	Expected Information
Work Type	The type of sample that has been picked up.
Location	The location of the work. See the info box below.**
Pickup Notes	The sample pickup note that was selected for this sample.
Count	The number of samples that have the same values for all of the above fields.

Other Work

Field Prompt	Expected Information
Work Type	Other types of work completed that are not Forms, e.g., Reinforcing Steel Sampling.
Location	The location of the work. See the info box below.**
Count	The number of test locations (samples) that have the same values for all of the above fields

**The location is built up on if the following custom fields are configured and have values: Section, Feature, Structure No.and Location.

Forms

There is more flexibility with how Forms are configured for summarising on the Daily Summary Field Report. See Configure Daily Summary Field Report for instructions to configure the summarising of Forms.

In the above example the form Foundation Report has been added to the work order. Location 1, Location 2 and Location 3 have been extracted from the form and displayed to the user. This information will also be displayed on the report.

Field Prompt	Expected Information
Form Name	The form name is displayed as a header for the section.
Configurable	**Read Only display of form field extracted from the Form.
Remarks	Pre-defined language associated with the Form that is editable by the user. If no pre-defined language is set for the form this field will not be displayed.

**Any number of form fields can be extracted from the Form and displayed.

Other Observations

Any other observations during the time on site that do not fit elsewhere that should still be recorded can be entered here.

Report Review

The second phase of the Daily Summary Field Report workflow displays the report and allows the field user to sign and publish the report.

Preview

A preview image of the Daily Summary Field Report is displayed. The report contains all the information that was displayed on the previous phase of the workflow. Tapping on the image will download the PDF which can then be viewed via any PDF viewer available on the device.

Android

Tapping on the image will download the PDF in the background using the device's download manager. Swipe down on the status bar (top of screen) to open the device's notification drawer. Tap on the notification for the downloaded PDF to open the PDF with an available viewer.

Sign and Publish

The field user can sign and publish (via Email or Construction Hive) the report to the client while they are on-site, effectively leaving a "copy" of their work on-site before they leave.

Signing will only be available to a user if they have the Signatory permission for the Daily Summary Field Inspection (119017).
Adding new recipients will will only be available to a user if they have the Add permission for the Contacts list of the appropriate laboratory.
The default publishing medium and whether a secondary publishing medium is available, are configured by options in Regions & Laboratories by an Administrator.
Publishing will only be available to a user if they have the Publish Test Reports & Forms permission or if the Document Level Option Always allow publishing from QESTField on the Daily Summary Field Report (119018) is set to true. If this Document Level Option is set to True, all users will be able to publish the Daily Summary Field Report from QESTField, regardless of other publishing rights.

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Daily Summary Field Report

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