Photo Guidance (sample photos), Efficient Photo Taking Experience, and more!

December 3, 2022

In this release, you can now:

• Provide sample photos and instructions to the field with Photo Guidance
• Require crews to view a sample photo before taking a picture with Mandatory Photo Guidance
• Using Photo Guidance in the Field
• A new, more efficient photo taking experience 
• Lock edits to JHA to ensure the crew starts a new JHA for each day on site
• Verify your location before taking photos on the iPad

Provide sample photos and instructions to the field with Photo Guidance

Be proactive about capturing the right pictures the first time by guiding crews through text instructions and example photos for a photo requirement. Add sample photos and instructional text for photo lists.

Provide sample photos and accompanying instructions to photo lists. Set up photo guidance in the Pathwave Portal to provide crews with an example of the desired photo requirement. Learn how to add photo guidance to photo lists in the Pathwave Portal here.

Start adding sample photos and instructional text to photo lists today.

Require crews to view a sample photo before taking a picture with Mandatory Photo Guidance

Require crews to view example photos and text instructions for specific photos in the photo list.

With Mandatory Guidance:

Learn more about Mandatory Photo Guidance here.

Using Photo Guidance in the Field

View photo guidance for a job on the photo list. View example photos and text instructions to guide you to take the best picture when taking a photo for a job.

View photo guidance by selecting the image icon :

Learn more about using photo guidance in the field here.

A new, more efficient photo taking experience (BetaCam)

Introducing a new photo taking experience that makes taking photos more efficient. Less clicks are needed to take photos for a job. When taking a photo for a job, now you can take multiple photos faster and navigate more quickly from the photo list to taking a photo.

To turn the new photo taking experience on and off for a device, open the Pathwave App on a mobile device or iPad and go to Settings > "New Camera(Beta)".

Note: When taking a photo, ensure the number in the upper left advances before moving the device.

Lock edits to JHA to ensure the crew starts a new JHA for each day on site

Lock edits to a JHA x hours after signatures completed to ensure the crew starts a new JHA for each day and doesn't accidentally override a previous JHA for a job. When the crew starts a JHA the next day, they’ll be prompted to close the JHA from the previous day without the ability to edit or change the JHA from the previous day.

Locking edits to a JHA can be turned on or off for your company and the number of hours can be changed (default is 12 hours). Contact our Pathwave Support team to enable this for your teams or reach out with any questions and we'd be happy to assist.

Verify your location before taking photos on the iPad

Verify your location before taking photos on the iPad to ensure photos are taken on the correct job. Verifying your location before taking photos on the iPad can be turned on or off for your company. Contact our Pathwave Support team to enable this for your teams or reach out with any questions and we'd be happy to assist.