When conducting inspections, DroneDeploy helps you identify field notes using custom terms that are meaningful for your team. This new feature allows you to perform inspections and generate reports using Field Note terms that your teams have standardized.
In addition to custom field note types, you now have the ability to segregate and filter field notes based on severity levels so that inspectors can highlight the most urgent field notes to their field teams.
Availability: Who has access?
Owners/Admins can create, edit, and delete custom field note types at an organization level.
Editors can assign these custom field note types from the drop-down menu.
Creating a Custom Field Note Type
Only Owners or Admins can create new custom field note types. Follow these steps to create a new type:
Create an annotation marker and create a Field Note.
From the label drop-down, select Create Field Note Type.
A New Field Note Type pop-up appears. Insert the Custom Field Note Type name here.
Once the notification Successfully created new field note type appears, Admins, Owners, and Editors can select this new field note type from the drop-down.
Naming Requirements
The following requirements apply to the custom field note type name:
Maximum of 50 characters per field note type.
Alphanumeric and spaces only.
No duplicate field note types.
Field Note: Severity and Cost of Repair
Each field note can be assigned a severity level as well as an approximate cost of repair associated with the field note.
These new fields—custom field note types, severity, and cost—are now visible in the field note reports and APIs. If you have an integration with Procore or Autodesk BIM 360, these new fields can also be transferred when you generate a new Observation or Field Note.
Limitations
Owners/Admins are not able to permanently delete field note types without a replacement.
FAQs
Q: Is this information included in the API?
A: Yes.
Q: Who can create a field note versus create a new custom field note type?
A: Only Owners and Admins can create new custom field note types. Once created, anyone with Editor access or higher can create a field note using these new field note types.
V2.2