Timecards work with no signal

Field software that needs a signal isn't field software. Starting today, the daily timecard — crew, hours, cost codes, the Section 22 attestations, delays, deliveries and the narrative — works exactly the same with or without one.

What changes for a foreman:

• Every edit saves on the device as you type. Close the app, lose the battery, switch to a call — reopen the day and it's there.
• Save and Submit work offline. The card queues on the phone and a strip at the top says so: Offline · 1 queued on this device. When you're back on wifi or LTE it sends on its own. No button to remember.
• Open the app cold with no signal and you still get your timecard: your crew, cost codes and project list are kept on the device from the last time you had a connection. Install STrOp to your home screen for this — a browser tab can be cleared by the phone; the installed app isn't.
• Nothing silently disappears. If the office approved the day while you were dark, or a T&M ticket you tagged got signed, the sync tells you why it was refused and keeps what you entered so you can fix it, not re-type it. Tap the strip to see what's queued and what needs a look.

Same rules as online. An offline day lands in the same approval queue, under the same checks — it just arrives when it can. Approvals, dispatch and signing still need a connection; those are decisions, and decisions are made against current data.

Also in this release, a pass over the field screens on phones and iPads: the Save bar no longer hides behind the home indicator, number fields open the numeric keypad, the Approvals tables scroll instead of cutting off the Approve button, the signature sheet doesn't vanish on a stray tap outside the pad, and the daily report has a straight-to-camera button.

Photos taken offline upload when you reconnect, as long as you keep the timecard open; queuing them on the device is next. T&M ticket capture offline follows.