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Bob Elliott
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« on: April 23, 2008, 05:39:56 PM »

Wish there was a way to tag pics to fall into preopened dropdowns
I was thinking just to show what I mean here.
Say you coud tag pics in the foders to auto fall into sections like roof or interior.
I suppose I could set up a dummy client with dropdowns already opened but need to play with that idea.
Often takes an hour to click all my dropdowns in photo add
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2008, 09:53:13 PM »

If the photo uploads somehow had a thumbnail visible at the section of the report you selected it to be in the report. You could write the comment without switching from the photo section to the inspection report tabs. Maybe even be able to add the caption to the photo from the inspection tab location. Basically I take photos of everything and write the report from those photos, so I am constantly going from photo page to whatever area I am writing then back to the photo page.

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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2008, 10:10:03 PM »

Dominic is adding a film strip at the bottom of the page for report writing to take care of that John.

Bob, I have on average 100 pictures or more (150) and can drop them all in about 45 min tops, sometimes quicker. I streamlined how I want the drop downs to look from how I inspect. Roof being first, exterior, attic, etc, etc.
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2008, 10:18:44 PM »

Dominic,

I noticed the resolution if quite low on the photo import.

This isn't usually too noticeable except on siding or roof photos.

I can't use some pics because it makes the roof look like its about to leak and the siding look lousy.

Is there anyway to et higher res photos into the report. Especially for the cover photo?
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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2008, 10:22:57 PM »

I need anything to reduce the file size. Are you still looking at going three pictures wide? My pictures have very good quality in the report though.

The split screen is a great for report writing. I am not sure how it looks on regular windows, but The Acer system is great for viewing where the pictures are, and what order they are. I drop the comments in to match the picture order..

Will we still have access to the cc processing if we do not use the upload service? I am interested in the upload service but have to find a way to get those 12 and 14mb inspections loaded.....

By far this is still the best program on the market, even if it never had another update!!!!!!!
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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2008, 10:27:03 PM »

How about a reminder before the program closes if you want to save the current template. I keep adding comments and then forgetting to save the template.
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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2008, 10:38:28 PM »

Wow, good activity Smiley I split this into it's own thread as I'm trying to keep that master list thread purely one post per issue to be resolved. So make sure when you have an idea to post it there, and as a new thread so that it can be discussed.

As Ben stated, the film strips at the bottom of each section will eliminate any flipping back and forth. I've already started the development of this by adding a feature in the next version to simply click on a photo and see it enlarged.

I'm looking at adding options for 1-4 wide.

I can definitely add an option for saving the template. Remember that you can always restore a template from an inspection by opening up the inspection then clicking save template. That will give you the exact template you used for the inspection.

Mike, can you send me a copy of the pdf report that has photos with issues. I haven't seen any yet so I'll need to see examples. Send me the hzf file and a few of the original photos if you can. The photos are cropped and compressed. Right now a 1 mb photo (1024 kb) gets reduced to a 10kb-20kb photo so 1/50 to 1/100 it's original size. I spent several days last week rewriting the company logo feature so you get much higher resolution photos and I could use a similar algorithm as an option for photos to get better resolution.

Credit Card processing will be available to anyone using the report upload service or the website hosting service.

I hope I got everyones questions answered. Let me know. Thanks for all the great input, keep the ideas coming, thats what this section is for!
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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2008, 09:09:31 PM »

so can anyone tell me how to produce a slide show on my website..step by step instructions..I appreciate it
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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2008, 10:08:12 PM »

Hey Aram,

Wrong section, this was actually a discussion on Home Inspector Pro. Hopefully you got it working though from the discussion we had in chat (I'm assuming this was posted after).
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