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Introducing Project Email Integration in Construction Viz

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Summary: Construction Viz now supports a centralized project inbox for system-generated communications, including RFIs, Daily Reports, and Submittals. Teams can use a Microsoft 365 Group email or another address to improve visibility, preserve a more complete project record, and support existing workflows without forcing a new way of working.

Email remains a critical part of construction project delivery. RFIs, submittals, daily reports, approvals, and other important communications often move through team inboxes alongside the project management system.

Rather than forcing teams to abandon the tools and workflows they already use, Construction Viz is designed to bring those workflows together.

Our new Project Email Integration gives each project a centralized email inbox, in addition to each application’s default email history, that can become part of the broader project record.

How Project Email Integration Works

Administrators can configure a dedicated email address for each project, including projects managed within a multi-project Construction Viz environment.

All system-generated communications, including RFIs, Daily Reports, Submittals, and other project notifications, can automatically copy the designated project email address in addition to the default Construction Viz email history for every application.

Organizations can use a Microsoft 365 Group email address and share access with authorized project team members, creating a centralized inbox where communications remain visible and accessible. The feature can also work with other email addresses, providing flexibility for different project structures and technology environments.

“Project Email Integration brings important communications into one shared, accessible project inbox.”

Key Benefits

  • Centralized communication: Keep important project emails in a single shared location.
  • A more complete project record: Capture system-generated communications alongside other project information.
  • Improved team visibility: Give authorized team members access to a common project inbox.
  • Microsoft 365 integration: Extend the tools and infrastructure many organizations already use.
  • Flexible configuration: Support different email setups, project structures, and workflow preferences.

Built Around How Project Teams Actually Work

Project Email Integration reflects a broader Construction Viz principle: technology should support how teams work, not force every organization into a single prescribed process.

Construction Viz is built as a modular and configurable platform within Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. Organizations can select the apps and capabilities they need, adapt workflows to their project requirements, and maintain control of their own project data.

“Construction Viz supports the way project teams work and never forces never forces every organization into the same prescribed process.”

Project Email Integration is another practical step toward connecting project information while preserving the flexibility construction teams need.

Interested in learning how Construction Viz can support your project workflows? Contact Lydon Solutions to explore a configuration built around your organization’s needs.

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Phase 3 of the Construction Viz Questionnaire: Now with Geolocated Photos

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The Questionnaire component for Construction Viz is a powerful and dynamic feature that you can add to any of our construction form apps to capture questions and responses. With Phase 3, we included the ability to add geolocated photos to every response! Discover how this enhancement will elevate field inspections.

Our team recently released a new questionnaire component that Construction Viz users can add to any form app to collect unique response types for each question, including text, checkboxes, dates, numbers, and locations. Phase 2 of our enhancement roadmap allowed users to include ad hoc comments to each response.

Add Geolocated Photos to Your Construction Forms

With Phase 3, you can now take photos or upload as many images as needed for each response. The ability to attach pictures is a huge benefit for field inspections or when creating a punch list, where progress or issues need to be identified and supported by photos.

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Additionally, we have connected our interactive flyout menu, allowing you to see each image in a full-screen view and add metadata such as a title, description, and geospatial location. If you don’t know the latitude and longitude of where a photo was taken or have location services turned off with your mobile device, you have the option to move a pin on a map to set the desired location to capture Lat/Long.

As with all of our Construction Viz apps, the data is stored in your Microsoft 365 SharePoint lists and libraries.

Stay tuned: we are currently working on a few more powerful features for the questionnaire component, including providing lookups as a new data type to allow users to select data, such as a building inventory, from a predefined list.

Lydon Solutions continues to innovate and deliver solutions to real-world construction challenges with Construction Viz. You can request a demo of Construction Viz for Microsoft 365 below.

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Construction Viz Questionnaire Phase 2 and Beyond!

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After building a truly dynamic questionnaire feature into Construction Viz, we quickly followed up with the ability to add comments to every response.

Check out this post to see how this small but super helpful feature provides even more flexibility to the Questionnaire component and see what's coming down the pike!

New Construction Questionnaire Comments Field Enhancement

Questionnaires need to be as dynamic as possible. Based on client feedback, users wanted the ability to add comments to each response to provide further explanation. For example, when completing an inspection report, the inspector might indicate a non-compliance issue per their observation checklist and use the new comments feature for that specific response to further elaborate as to why.

The comments can be printed to PDF with the form using the report wizard. As with all Construction Viz apps, the tool automatically saves the data to the client's Microsoft 365 SharePoint site.

A Preview of the Roadmap

We have several more exciting enhancements on the roadmap that will add even more features to the questionnaire component very soon, including:

  • Adding photos to every response, including geospatial data. This enhancement will make collecting punch-list items a breeze.
  • Sorting through and finding photos quickly with a new image view that displays all photos added to a questionnaire, complete with metadata.
  • Pulling data from a centralized list with a new lookup response type. This feature will enable organizations to establish standard lists, such as a set of inventory materials that you can assign to each response as you complete it.

And that is just a small preview of what's to come. Stay tuned for more updates.

Lydon Solutions continues to innovate and deliver solutions to real-world construction challenges with Construction Viz. You can request a demo of Construction Viz for Microsoft 365 below.

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Customized Questionnaires Now Available in All Construction Viz Apps

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Whether you are completing a site inspection, daily report, or even a risk assessment, you may need to create customized questionnaires where you can add unique questions and choose the types of responses, like a date or checkbox. With our latest release of Construction Viz, we aimed to deliver a truly dynamic questionnaire solution that is available across all our apps. Check out this article to find out more.

The new questionnaire component delivers robust and dynamic features on all fronts, and as with all Construction Viz applications, the data is stored on your SharePoint sites.

Questionnaires Available in All Construction Viz Apps

The questionnaire component is available across all Construction Viz apps. It is available in the daily and inspection form apps by default, but you can activate it on any of our apps.

Need questionnaires in a Change Request or Submittal form app? No problem. Activate the questionnaire feature in the settings.

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Construction Viz Questionnaire Component Features

Custom response data types

Want different response data types for each question? When creating a questionnaire template, an admin can assign each question a unique response type, such as a checkbox, currency, date, date/time, instruction, location, number, percent, and text.

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User enabled questionnaires

You might have a set of questions that require responses in a form by default, but you might also need the flexibility to respond to questions depending on the unique circumstance or condition.

The new user-enabled questionnaires allow the initiator to enable other related questions depending on the situation, providing the ultimate flexibility.

Form type questionnaires

We added a new form type field to select forms that can drive which questionnaires are enabled in the form. So, when a user selects a safety inspection form type in an inspection report form app, the safety questionnaires are made available by default.

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These new questionnaire features in Construction Viz provide the ability to adapt to dynamic business needs and increase overall efficiency on construction projects.

Lydon Solutions continues to innovate and deliver solutions to real-world problems with Construction Viz. You can request a demo of Construction Viz for Microsoft 365 below.

Customize Form Statuses and Notifications with Construction Viz

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Configurable statuses and notifications for the way you work!

Every company, project, and project manager manages construction projects differently. Having unique form statuses and defining when a user receives a notification is no different. Check out this article to see how Construction Viz can adapt form statuses and notifications to your processes.

Customize Statuses and Notifications Easily in Construction Viz

Keeping your process flexible is the name of the game in construction, and this is why we built a custom form app status and notification feature in Construction Viz.

Form statuses can be different on every project, depending on the contract requirement. For example, you might want a form review status of a submittal to be “Ready for Review” instead of “Open” or an RFI status to be “Acknowledge” instead of “Review Required.” These may be slight differences, but depending on the client, they can make a big difference with regard to ball in court and turnaround time.

With Construction Viz, you can create your own statuses, identify default statuses when you create a new form, and determine which ones will trigger a notification for users to take action. We made the entire process simple and straightforward so you can set up quickly and focus on what matters: getting work done.

See our lineup of construction form apps here.

Construction Project Management Your Way

Our configurable statuses and notification features let you customize your communication workflows to meet your needs. You can find out more about Construction Viz on the features page.

Ready to streamline your construction project workflows? Discover how Construction Viz can revolutionize your project management. Request a free demo today and see the difference it can make for your organization.

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Construction Viz Has Now Entered the Microsoft Dataverse!

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Our initial tests to deploy Construction Viz to the Dataverse have been successful. Find out how deploying Construction Viz to YOUR Dataverse opens up a whole new world of possibilities!

Construction Viz is an enterprise construction management solution deployed to a client’s Microsoft 365 SharePoint Online. While the code runs in the cloud, all client data remains stored in their SharePoint lists and libraries. It’s a revolutionary approach to deploying a construction management solution, but we are just getting started.

Dataverse, here we come in 2025!

What’s Microsoft Dataverse?

Microsoft Dataverse is a secure cloud-based database in Microsoft 365 and so much more. It began as the Common Data Service for Microsoft Dynamics but is now a pillar for the modern Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, and Virtual Agents) and Microsoft Project for the Web.

Microsoft Dataverse provides the following:

  • Power Platform Integration. It is the underlying data platform for Microsoft’s Power Platform.
  • Ability to leverage all data technologies. The Dataverse is designed to work with any data type and incorporates all the major categories of data technologies that your organization needs—relational, non-relational, file, image, search, and data lake.
  • Rapid app development. Citizen developers can rapidly develop and deploy applications using Power Apps. The platform abstracts much of the complexity of database design.
  • Simplifies application development. Dataverse reduces development efforts by offering pre-built connectors, data types, and relationships. This simplifies the creation of applications, as developers can leverage existing structures rather than starting from scratch.

How Will Combining Construction Viz and Microsoft Dataverse Benefit You?

Our integration of Construction Viz with Microsoft Dataverse opens up multiple powerful capabilities for our clients, including:

  • Build and integrate your own applications. You will be able to build your own Power Apps using the same data source and integrate applications and data into Construction Viz. For example, you could create an offline daily report in Power Apps and access it in Construction Viz or even update Microsoft Projects through the Construction Viz hub in real time.
  • Integrate with Dynamics. Many construction organizations use Dynamics as their ERP/CRM tool. Construction Viz will extend the capabilities of Dynamics for project-centric applications, and you can share Dynamics data with Construction Viz.
  • Data consolidation. Aggregate all your data into a single location, simplifying security, analytics, and application building.
  • Database-intensive applications. Need something custom on a large scale? Instead of building an SQL Server database, which can take considerable effort, you can quickly spin up a Dataverse environment with all of these considerations already baked in.

Ready to Harness the Full Power of Construction Viz and Microsoft Dataverse?

The integration of Construction Viz with Microsoft Dataverse is more than a game-changer—it’s your opportunity to transform how your organization manages construction projects. From rapid app development to seamless data integration, the possibilities are endless.

Take the next step toward a more efficient, connected, and innovative construction management solution. Contact us today to schedule a free demo and see how Construction Viz with Dataverse can elevate your operations in 2025 and beyond.

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