Summary page/item reference preference

[Ken Sherman]

Hi.  Need some opinions from all of you experienced HIP users.  As a new inspector I have been playing a lot with the various features and functions of the HIP program.  When I create a report and flag several damage items as RED, HIP nicely summarizes those items and places them on the summary page with a PAGE and ITEM reference.  But I've noticed an odd behavior when an ITEM crosses a page boundry either because of a lengthy comment or the addition of photos. The PAGE reference is for the 2nd page of the ITEM even though the actual ITEM comment is on the 1st page.  In my case I had an ITEM #6 comment on page 5 followed by several photos, spilling on to page 6.  On the summary page it referenced Page 6 Item:6.  When you go to page 6 you only see some pictures because the comment is actually on page 5.  I think this would be confusing to the client since the summary only references the comments, not the pictures.   I'd like the summary to always point back to the page where the RED comment starts, not where the entire ITEM ends - or - optionally have the summary reference both pages.
Thanks for your thoughts. Hope I didn't confuse you.

[Bob Elliott]

I think you need Dom to answer that one.
He basically has said in the past that breaks are uneven since he wants every page to be full from top to bottom.
For the summery to be referenced to the start page on a split item is something Dom needs to work on as I know of nothing to change that phenomenon at this time.

[Dominic Maricic]

Ken & I talked about it. It's not a matter of the programming as much as, do people want the page number to be listed from the top of the item or the bottom? Since the red items are below the black, they will often be on the 2nd page of a page break of an item if it exists. So the question is, should this be added as an option up to the inspector, or always put at one end or the other. Remember, with multiple red items that even the red comments could break across two pages.

[Bob Elliott]

I should think people want to read a comment from the beginning.