Daily log and photos from the field

Six months from now, somebody will ask what condition that slab was in before you covered it. The projects that answer in thirty seconds are the ones where the crew captured the day as it happened. In STrOp the daily record has two halves: the photo log on the project, and the day's work records — timecards, T&M tickets, field work orders — which together are the diary a dispute or an audit reads.

Photos: straight from the phone to the job

1. Open the project → Photos. On a phone, the capture button opens the camera directly — shoot, and it lands on the job's log, no camera-roll detour, no "I'll upload them tonight."
2. Caption while you walk. Tap a photo and write what it shows — "vapor test, slab B, pre-install" beats a nameless image when someone's searching later. On an iPad the grid stays beside the photo you're captioning, built for walking the floor.
3. Shooting existing conditions, pre-cover, and anything you're about to hide is the habit that pays. Storage is cheap; reconstructing a buried condition isn't.

Need the photos outside STrOp? Select what you want and download them named and manifested, or lay them out as a printable site report on your letterhead — done from the same log, phone or desk.

The day's work records

• Timecards say who was there and what it cost — entered day-of, with the California break attestations answered honestly.
• T&M tickets capture extra work while the super who directed it is still on site to sign. The signature the same day is the whole game.
• Field work orders carry status as the work moves — the project's Field tab shows the day's tickets and orders in one place.

Together with the photo log, that's the daily story: what was done, by whom, at what cost, with pictures.

Common mistakes

• Photos that stay on someone's phone. The job log only protects you if the photos are on the job. Capture through the app and there's nothing to remember to upload.
• Captions later. Nobody captions two hundred photos on Friday. Caption the ones that matter as you shoot them.
• Recording only problems. The photo that wins an argument is usually the boring one — the clean substrate, the stocked material, the empty room — taken before anything was wrong.

See also

• T&M tag — why the owner signature is everything
• Enter and approve timecards