New features and release details for Gruntify Professional and Gruntify for Business during 2023.

November

Wednesday, 8th of November 2023

This Release includes updates from the below Release as well as the changes listed subsequently.

• Fixed an issue where card titles with more than one line were displaying improperly.

• Fixed an issue where Asset Visualizations were not displaying properly from the Jobs map view and the Job has an asset associated with it. BUSINESS Enterprise business

• Jobs in Gruntify have been updated to use the Elastic system. Details for what new capabilities this system has can be found Here. BUSINESS Enterprise business

• Updated the menu when exiting requests and request drafts that are being edited to be consistent across both mobile platforms.

• Improved performance of the map view for Requests and Jobs.

• Added the ability to select and accept multiple jobs from the job queue. BUSINESS Enterprise business

October

Friday, 13th of October 2023

Owners and Primary Owners are now able to access a new 'Appearance' tab under Workspace Settings. You are now able to add a:

• Workspace Brand Logo

• Workspace Brand Icon

• Workspace Brand Color

• Added a warning if you try to create a request without the proper permissions

• Fixed an issue where the 'New Dashboard' button would disappear in some instances

• Fixed an issue where character limits were being bypassed in the form builder

• Fixed an issue where 'unused datasets detected' was appearing even when there were no datasets

• Fixed an issue where image thumbnails would fail if they contained a special character in the file name

• Jobs now are sorted by 'Start Date' by default Enterprise business

• Offline Job Caching has been updated with various improvements

• Updated Android menu when exiting Requests

• Fixed an issue where Requests would have inconsistent colors

• Fixed an issue where filtering by date on iOS would not work as intended

• Jobs now are sorted by 'Start Date' in both My Jobs and All Jobs by default Enterprise business

September

Monday, 4th of September 2023 PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS

Wednesday, 6th of September 2023 Enterprise

This Release includes updates from the below Release as well as the changes listed subsequently.

• Card layout settings will now apply to asset and job cards on mobile on Android

• Fixed an issue blocking editing post work forms if existing photo control photos were present on iOS

• Fixed an issue where a message stating ‘100% media limit reached’ was shown even though only one photo was taken

• Fixed an issue where cached jobs in Map view would not display in offline mode on Android

August

Wednesday, 2nd of August 2023

After a Job is Accepted by a team, a job is able to be cached for offline access and editing. Once cached and offline, you will be able to access and edit the job form and media even if there is no internet connection at the job site.

By popular demand, the map options sidebar has been added to the following map views where it did not previously exist:

• Map layer create/edit screen

• Fullscreen view

• Requests area filter

This will allow for greater flexibility over the layers and visualizations displayed in these views.

web

• Forms will now warn you if you have unused datasets when trying to publish them

• When exporting requests or jobs, you should now be warned before submitting the export if you have too many selected at once

• Updated filter bar UI in requests to better align with design changes across the app

• Layer icons added in the advanced layer styling options will now appear in the legend

mobile

• You will now be shown a warning if you try to upload media that exceeds the maximum allowable media size when submitting a request

• Fixed an issue where the some cases, you were asked to wait indefinitely and could not continue

• Fixed an issue where signing up to a new account would instead display a communication error and not continue

July

Wednesday, 5th of July 2023

This Release includes updates from the below Release as well as the changes listed subsequently.

• The Visualize option in request map options is no longer in all caps ios

• Gruntify now notifies you with a popup when a new version of the app is available

June

Wednesday, 28th of June 2023

This Release includes updates from the below Release as well as the changes listed subsequently.

• The loud shutter sound when taking photos on Android has been disabled

• Updated toast pop up visual to have a dark background with white text for higher contrast

• Fixed an issue where the app would get stuck and display 'Cannot retrieve latest data' and not display requests as expected

• Fixed an issue where basemaps with long names will now wrap to a new line to be easier to read

• Fixed an issue where selecting an item from a dropdown control would snap the focus to the top of the screen

• Fixed an issue where the location popup would display multiple times when location is unavailable or disabled instead of only once

• Fixed an issue where some page headers would respect changes to workspace naming settings

• Fixed an issue where submitting requests from drafts would fail when uploaded media was present

May

Wednesday, 31st of May 2023

You are now able to connect external data sources as map layers that are updated in Gruntify whenever the external data is updated and the map is reloaded.

More details about map layers can be found here.

You can now create jobs from the job calendar view by right clicking a timeslot in the calendar and then clicking 'Create Job'. You can also update job timeframes from the job calendar view by dragging the upper or lower border of the job in the calendar view to extend or shorten job timeframes.

• The ‘map options’ sidebar is now able to be visible when in the full-screen map view

• Gruntify Trial emails have a new look, no information changes have been made

• The privacy policy and terms of use are now displayed when a new user account is created

• The look of form section headers (the header that appears when you have multiple sections to navigate) has been updated to take up less space

• Workspace settings shows a popup if you try to exit with unsaved changes

• Visualizations now only show if they fit the current search query as opposed to always showing

• Updated new workspace button to a new look, functionality is maintained

• Updated popup buttons across the app to a new look, functionality is maintained

• Fixed an issue where the ‘users by team’ filter used in some dashboards would display improperly

Wednesday, 10th of May 2023

This Release includes updates from the below Release as well as the changes listed subsequently.

The interface has been updated to maximize usable space by unifying the page heading and top bar. This is part of our commitment to improve Gruntify’s user experience by optimizing’s screen space and usability. We hope you like it!

Custom Map Layers can now be imported to and exported from different workspaces. This also includes styling specific to the map layer.

More details on this feature can be found here.

In the form builder, under the media option, you can now add a 'Max Total Media Size' in megabytes. The default limit is 15Mb but can be set between 1 and 25. A warning will pop up of you are close or exceed this limit in the request.

WEB

• You can now sort requests by media count columns

• You can now see the date of invite sent for pending users

• Fixed an issue where applying conditional logic would not allow you to edit a request

• Fixed an issue where you could not view others' user profiles

• Fixed an issue where controls with the same name and IDs would be misidentified as each other

• Fixed an issue where custom depot properties would lose data when the name was changed

• Fixed an issue where GeoJson exports with too many trips would fail unexpectedly

• Fixed an issue where info box form controls would not appear when exported when 'render empty for fields' is true

• Improved scroll behavior in settings submenus

• Improved animations when hovering over workspace selection cards

• Improved popup animation and layout

• Updated icons in the Gruntify interface

• Systematic update to the API

MOBILE

• Fixed an issue where Android images would be saved with the wrong image orientation

• Fixed an issue where some old requests and jobs would not display data correctly

April

Wednesday, 26th of April 2023

This Release includes updates from the below Release as well as the changes listed subsequently.

web

• Fixed an issue where changing workspaces would fail in some instances

• Fixed an issue where request names were shown incorrectly in card view

• Elasticsearch has enabled in environments that did not previously have it

mobile

• Improved media and annotation performance on iOS

• Improved camera performance on iOS

• Fixed an issue where only annotations would display rather than the media in some instances

• Fixed an issue where the Gruntimaps base map selection was incorrectly duplicated on iOS

• Fixed an issue where answering a dropdown would result in unintended navigation

• Fixed an issue where annotations would not display correctly in some instances

• Fixed an issue where requests were unable to be edited in some instances

• Updated UI for form cards

• Updated UI for text wrapping on iOS

• Updated photo control tap-response behavior on Android to be more responsive

Wednesday, 12th of April 2023

Request Visualizations are now mutually exclusive with each other so that you can only have one active at a time without overlap.

More details about what Request Views and Visualizations are and how to use them can be found here.

There is a new Form setting under Menu called Expand Layer Controls. This can be found when creating or editing a Form.

When this setting is enabled, the location tab of this form whether it is a Request, Job or Asset Form will start with the Map Layer controls sidebar open for all users by default. This sidebar controls visibility for Custom Map Layers that are available within the workspace.

Whether this setting is enabled or not, users will still be able to manually open the sidebar by clicking the arrow on the right of the map window.

More information about how to create and use Custom Map Layers can be found here.

You can now edit the default PDF Export instead of having to create a custom PDF Export Template. This can be useful if you would like to have a custom template following a certain specification.

More details about how to use export templates can be found here.

New Dashboards have been added with the following focuses accounting for a period of a week, month or all time:

1. Count of Requests completed by specific users

2. Count of Jobs completed by specific teams Enterprise business Exclusive

3. Total trip length completed by specific users

More details about dashboards in general are available here.

You can now use the Card View for Jobs and Assets and the Calendar View for Jobs on the Web App. Each view can be used to effectively navigate your jobs and assets.

More information about how to use Job Views can be found here.

You can now see the GPS Accuracy associated with the location metadata of an image file uploaded into Gruntify if it has location coordinates and GPS accuracy associated with it. GPS Accuracy will not be displayed if it is not available. If the Location of an image is changed, the GPS Accuracy will be reset to 'Not Provided'.

web

• Image Visualizations have updated preview cards

• Minor card design updates

• Form builder help icons are more visible

• Email notifications have an updated design

• Forms and Templates clickable area expanded

• Minor profile UI updates

• Map search box is no longer covered by map attribution text at some zoom levels

• Fixed display issues where theme colors were not displaying properly

• Fixed an issue where users were unable to Ctrl+V images in some instances

• Fixed an issue where the wrong image would be selected as the featured image

• Equipment ‘Names' renamed to 'Equipment Notes’ and is not mandatory Enterprise business Exclusive

• Jobs can now be filtered by 'no assignee Enterprise business Exclusive

mobile

• UI formatting updates

• Unified behaviour when deleting a user account in the Gruntify Mobile App

• Unified behaviour when reading QR codes in the Gruntify Mobile App

• Map formatting updates

• Uploaded image thumbnails are now more space-efficient

• Fixed an issue where the Job overview map was focusing on the user location rather than the location of the job Enterprise business Exclusive

March

Friday, 3rd of March 2023

This Release includes updates from the below Release as well as the changes listed subsequently.

You can now export PDFs from Gruntify with a custom logo and disclaimer.

More details about this feature can be found here.

A new tile called Project Information has been added to the System Dashboard and can be added to custom dashboards. This tile can be used to show project-critical details such as a project description, start and end dates, project stakeholders and a project identifier. This is configurable in the workspace settings.

More details about this feature can be found here.

Users with the appropriate permissions are now able to access user data via the oData URL provided in the workspace settings.

More details about using the oData API can be found here.

To improve the user experience especially when working with larger forms, you are now able to collapse or expand sections and repeaters in the Form Builder.

• Fixed an issue where PDF Exports with images without date metadata was failing

• Fixed an issue where updating a request via Workflows would delete request data

• Fixed an issue with Reporters able to access certain restricted permissions

• Fixed an issue where certain changes in form status were not able to be saved

• Fixed an issue with the request table sorting requests incorrectly

• Asset deletion is now tracked by the audit log

• Sketches will not act as the feature image unless specifically selected

• Email Export UI updates and improvements

• Form name field lengths are now dynamic

• Dashboard UI updates and improvements

• General UI updates and improvements

• Form Builder UI updates and improvements

February

Tuesday, 28th of February 2023

You can now add annotations to images in the photo control in forms. This is identical to the functionality of adding annotations to media in the media tab. This is currently only for Gruntify iOS and will come to other platforms soon.

More details about annotations on Gruntify Mobile can be found here.

When viewing Jobs, you can now see an overview of the Jobs assigned to your team in a calendar view.

Further explanation of the Job Calendar view and other job views can be found here.

• Fixed an issue where certain assets were unable to be selected by jobs

• Fixed an issue where iOS images were saved in the wrong orientation

• iPhone 14 is now a recognised device

• Internal updates to GPS Accuracy

• UI Updates

Tuesday, 14th of February 2023

As an alternative to the pre-existing single user invite, we are adding a bulk user invitation feature to allow Primary Owners to upload a document with multiple user emails to invite.

More details about how to use bulk invitation can be found here.

The request table now has unified its export buttons. The in-table export and larger export button have been unified in functionality but the in-table button has been removed for usability.

More details how Exports and Reports function are available here.

• You can set your own favourite dashboard

• New Report: Requests by Request Type

• Report legend for horizontal bar reports moved to the top of the report

• Active user count report now updates more frequently

More details about dashboards are available here.

• Optionally page break after each repeater item

• Blank fields can optionally appear or not appear  

More details about export options are available here.

• Updated conditional form logic to be more usable

• Map functionality updated to be more responsive

• Single exports from the request table are downloaded instead of emailed

• Export Email wording updated

• Some parts of the backend have been updated to .NET 6 across the application

• Mobile preview form title is now in all capital letters

Monday, 6th of February 2023

When adding annotations to media images, those annotations are now able to be viewed in the gallery preview images.

Further explanation of the Media Gallery can be found here.

When viewing Jobs, you can now see an overview of the Jobs assigned to your team in a calendar view. This is currently only for Gruntify iOS and will come to other platforms soon.

Further explanation of the Job Calendar view and other job views can be found here.

• Popup formatting changes

• Filtering by distance has been made more accurate

• Augmented reality request view has been removed

• Turning off flash now doesn’t flash when taking a picture

January

Wednesday, 25th of January 2023

When creating and editing forms, you will now see a mobile preview of how the final version of the form will look once published.

When using the map view, you will now be able to view a scale indicator on the map.

Requests and request clusters have a new look. We hope you like it!

When creating and editing request forms, you are now able to change the tab order that is viewed when editing the request on Web and Mobile.

To unify terminology across Gruntify, instances referring to ‘submission’ in different places are referenced now as ‘capture’. For example, in the table view ‘Submitted On’ is now referred to as ‘Captured On’ for instances where form information might be captured but not recorded in a record on the same day.  

• Form versions now display correctly in the table view

• Basemap image quality improved

• Non-enterprise workspaces will no longer be able to be made public

• All record titles will now be limited to 50 characters

• Third-party sign-on updated

• Menu font and colour update

• Form titles and reference labels updated

• Search bar UI updated

• Dashboard UI updated

Monday, 16th of January 2023

You can now set your desired quality for photos and videos separately. You can also now choose between Low, Medium, and High for either. You can find this in the Display & Media section of the Settings menu.

When the Save Photos to the Gallery option is enabled, photos are now saved to a dedicated folder/album for easy access and identification. You can find this in the Display & Media section of the Settings menu.

You can now filter by 365 Days in the date range filter by default. You can also set this is your default filter in the User Preferences menu.

You can now minimize trip records when as part of an asset form. While minimized, you can still edit other controls in the asset form.

• Images saved to the gallery will always be 1080x1080 regardless of photo quality setting

• Auto-populated fields now correctly register as being filled out for mandatory fields

• Basemap selection now correctly abbreviates the selected Basemap if the name is too long

• Filtering requests by distance should now be more accurate

• The Repeater Control in forms have been updated and unified between both mobile apps

• Minor interface and formatting updates