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Add pre-defined drop down boxes to the description text in the panels

Still not as easy as I want it to be though so I'll leave it up here.

1.Print option to only print the cover, summary, and any photos and red comments in each section. Thus leaving out all informational black comments, introductions, checkboxes, etc. However, this seems like it would be next to impossible for me anyway..

2.Three pictures per line in the report.

3. Inspection Fee to show on Cover page in alternate color .

4. A numbering system for photos, and comments that are placed in each section

However, I must say that the software is incredible and I love it.

Can we have a Setting choice in the "Reports Settings" menu for  "Descriptive Text" and "Item Separator" for all  sections.

I use "New line & bullet"  plus the word  "Observations:"  98 % of the time.
I end up manually changing each one and that can add to my mega report build times..

Thanks
Dominic

In my former inspection/report writing process I document practically all deficiencies with a digital camera.

When I return to the office I view the photographs and dictate with voice recognition software, the report synopsis.  I do not always use the picture in the report, rather included as an attachment for future reference, indicating the photograph number in the inspection report efficiency.

My report writing style is mostly narrative and these narratives change from report to report.  There are common scenarios that can be "canned", but for the most part I make modifications on  almost every discrepancy in the narrative.


I want to keep away from the "hunt and click" process commonly found with inspection software.  I wish to keep my damage lists down to a minimum and use photographs with elaborated captions to cover the situation.

The problem with this I find is that though this process is handled very well in the body of the report, it is difficult to go back and enter a discrepancy that will end up in the summary page.  It takes too much time to bounce between the photograph section in the narrative section of the report.

I narrate the captions of the photographs using voice dictation and copy/paste these narratives to photograph caption.  This is extremely fast and effective.  The only problem is that I must also copy them to the narrative so they will show up in the summary.  This makes the report longer as it is duplicating the caption in the report body.  Also copying to the report body must later be removed or modified as the narration may not be suitable to use on the next inspection.

What I would like to see, is the ability to manually select the narrative of a photograph that I wish to have published in the summary page.

Is this now available, or can it be achieved?

I would like to see the option of being able to add colored/bold/italics text to any text in the selection panels.

New suggestion??

I use the circles in photo edit quite a bit but would like to have ovals as well.
Is there a way to make the circles so one can change it to an oval like I do in other programs such as whisper image edit lite?

http://www.whispersolutions.com/DownloadsImageEditLite.htm

There are a few ideas I came upon while making my template. 

1.While in the edit template mode, the right hand side (Inspection Side) does not have a scroll bar if your list is long.  It does allow you to add to the list but you can’t view the items. -Added 7/19/08 -Dominic

2.Also while in the edit template mode on the left hand side (menu side) I would like to be able to carry the multi-level list out one more, i.e. 

Folder = Interior
       Living Rooms
              Living Room Doors

Then I could list all the inspection items I would do for the door. 

3.Also it was recommended by an attorney to add another signature line to the contract page.
4.I would like to see a save button in the contract page edit mode.  I would not have known how to save the contract if it hadn’t been told to me.

Originally posted by William DeVries - Topic split for discussion

Contract
Would be nice to be able to check off which contracts or added contracts to print off during an inspection.
Inspection Agreement
Mold agreement
IR agreement
PDI agreement
New Construction Inspection Agreement
Radon Agreement

at the moment I print off the standard agreement off with client there
then switch to word and print off blanks and add client name there for the rest of agreements I need.
This looks a little hookey but would really like to see some check boxes for the needed ones and client info is added from the client screen.