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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 Document Control 2.0

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Every company, project, and project manager does things differently in construction. Lydon Solutions continuously updates Construction Viz to accommodate our clients' unique business cases and integrate those features into the baseline product.

Document control is one of the cornerstones of Construction Viz, and we have recently made some powerful enhancements at our clients' request that you may find super helpful for your projects.

Check out this article to find out more.

Enhancements to Document Control in Construction Viz

There are several new document control features that we recently released that are unique to Construction Viz that might help you manage project documentation:

Tag files wherever you are

Most users store files in folders because they traditionally use File Explorer or shared drives. Folders are great, but metadata provides another level of document management because it frees you from a rigid nested folder structure.

Construction Viz leverages metadata throughout every application. With this latest update, we now allow users to tag files (including images and video) with metadata through the entire file lifecycle: On the upload file screen, within a form attachment grid, in a file-specific flyout menu, and the form documents view.

So, now there's no excuse not to assign metadata to your files. Your document control team will thank you, and the PMs can rest assured that they can find the files they are looking for.

Finalize document records

There are working files and final files. Working files are updated frequently by one or more team members. Final files are for end-user consumption, such as the final version of the contract in PDF format. You typically want to isolate these two types of files.

With the new finalize feature, you can select working file attachments in a form and click finalize to move them to another finalized file attachment area within the same form. This feature keeps the two file types separate and even allows them to be permission-controlled within the same form. This new component can also be added to any form to provide an additional layer of control at the document level.

Save and view files from another document library

You will likely use multiple related forms on a project but want to share a single file attachment location. For example, let's say you use two forms, like a Bid for the overall bid documents and Tasks for the bid requirement deliverables. Theoretically, you could have many tasks to complete a bid, but you don't want the uploaded associated files to reside in the individual Task forms. You might wish to have task files reside in the Bid form itself.

With this update, you can add the Bid form documents library to every task so that when you upload a file to a task, it is automatically saved to the Bid form, essentially sharing document libraries across forms. This new embedded component can be added to any form.

Simplify Your Construction Project Management

These pretty slick new features will help with your document management workflow, save your projects time and money, and avoid claims. 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 is Easy to Use

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While it might be debatable how integrated Microsoft 365 apps are, the one thing they do have going for them is ease of use. Rarely do you have to take a training class to use a Microsoft product.

With Construction Viz, we tried to echo this same UI design and layout while keeping the tool as easy to use as possible. Read on to learn how we designed Construction Viz for all levels of technology experience across your construction organization.

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A system can live or die based on how intuitive and easy to use it is. As we all know, the construction industry is one of, if not the most fragmented, technology-related industries. Experience levels and adoption vary from office to field, across departments, and even among remote workers. So, a tool needs to be:

  • Non-intimidating. Initial impression count. You should not be overwhelmed with the amount of data right in your face. Regardless of your technology background, if you have ever searched a website, used a phone, or created an email in Outlook, the experience should be familiar.
  • Action-oriented. There are way too many distractions and urgent items requiring our attention in today's world. Personal and business tasks put a strain on your time. Issues requiring your attention need to be front and center.
  • Minimal clicks. Most users will tune out if it takes more than two clicks to get to where you want to go.
  • Intuitive. Let's face it: nobody reads training guides anymore. Users will look elsewhere if it's not intuitive and will allow you to hit the ground running immediately.

Construction Viz checks all of these boxes and more. We designed the solution to welcome users of all technology experiences and allow you to get in, complete your tasks, and get out so you can get on with your busy schedule.

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market. You can request a free demo below to find out more about what Construction Viz can provide. If you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up and/or helping you deliver solutions, you can request a free one-hour consultation here.

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Construction Viz Offers Best in Class Pricing

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Tired of paying a licensing fee based on a percentage of the value of your projects? You need reliable pricing that doesn’t penalize you if you have a good year or your company is growing. Construction Viz has flexible pricing based on the number of users and apps selected. Find out how Construction Viz can put more money in your pocket, not an IT company.

We built Construction Viz back in 2017 to be flexible, robust, and easy to use. However, we also wanted to be as cost-effective as possible while delivering the solution to YOUR Microsoft 365.

We hear the same comment repeatedly from clients switching to Construction Viz.

“Why did I have to pay a percentage based on the value of my projects, and I only use 5% of what the tool provided? It’s way out of line.”

Construction Viz Lets You Pay Only for What You Use

With Construction Viz, you pay for each user based on the number of apps you want.

  • What if my company revenue grows by 10X? Same pricing.
  • What if I add multiple projects? Same pricing.
  • What if I only want four apps? Only pay for four apps.
  • What if I want to change the system to my liking? Standard hourly bill rate for changes.
  • What if I want contractors to access my system? Do I pay for those? Depending on the number of users and what they are doing in the system, sometimes they can be accommodated without additional fees.

Many companies are waking up to the fact that bigger isn’t necessarily better, and you shouldn’t have to pay more for a bloated, overly complex software product. Isn’t it time for a solution that benefits your unique project needs and limited budget?

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market. You can request a free demo below to find out more about what Construction Viz can provide. If you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up and/or helping you deliver solutions, you can request a free one-hour consultation.

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Customize Construction Viz to YOUR Unique Needs

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The one thing that absolutely never changed in my 25 years in the construction industry is change. New technologies and processes are released regularly to help reduce costs, manage scope, and improve scheduling, but unfortunately, the construction industry is the least receptive industry to technology changes. This is why it's critical to deliver IT solutions that are easy to use and customizable for your unique needs. It is also why the implementation needs to consider technology gaps and/or resistance within construction organizations. Check out this article on how Construction Viz can meet you where you work and how you work.

When we started Lydon Solutions, we specifically focused on building custom solutions in Microsoft SharePoint to address the needs of each construction client. We knew that every organization, project, and project manager manages projects differently, so our solutions needed to be as flexible to changes as possible.

So, when we built Construction Viz as an enterprise construction management platform for Microsoft 365, one of our goals was to provide an out-of-the-box solution that could also be further customized to the client's unique needs now and well into the future.

Construction Viz is All About Customizable Solutions

We approach customization in Construction Viz from several areas:

The Construction Viz Hub

The Construction Viz Hub is your control center. You can turn apps on and off and further configure them as needed in the Hub.

We also implemented Hub Profiles that can create unique experiences (apps, theming, and features) that you can target to specific users like contractors or owners.

Modular Components in Construction Viz

We built our apps using a component-based structure where each component performs a specific function.

For example, if you need a document attachment component to upload your files into an RFI form, we can turn on the document uploader to add files to an RFI form. Or, if you need the ability to upload images in a thumbnail view to a Daily Report, we could turn on the image uploader component.

Over the years, we have built an extensive catalog of unique components to deliver unique client-specific apps by combining multiple components into custom solutions.

Construction Viz Configuration Settings

We provide administrative settings that clients can configure for their specific projects and add unique permissions.

Also, administrators can manage one project per site or many projects per site, with Construction Viz accommodating either option from the settings.

Metadata Files

We built Construction Viz with the ability to branch our product code base with unique metadata code files by a client or even by a project. These metadata files allow us to add new fields, apps, or whatever a client needs in Construction Viz.

While the metadata files can be unique to each client, they still receive regular product updates as part of the release process. This flexibility built into Construction Viz’s handling of metadata is a forward-thinking and dynamic approach to building unique solutions.

Microsoft 365 Extensibility

Since Construction Viz deploys to a client's Microsoft 365, they can further enhance the features, such as building their own Power BI reports and embedding them into Construction Viz or building a Power Automate workflow and adding it to one of our form apps. We'll get into some of these details in a future post on this topic.

Construciton Viz File Manager

For organizations that want to tiptoe into some of the apps but still want to keep using SharePoint document libraries with folders, we built the Construction Viz File Manager app. The File Manager app lets you perform most of the critical functions you would do in SharePoint right inside Construction Viz without having to navigate to the underlying SharePoint site.

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Construction Viz Adapts to Your Unique Requirements

If your organization needs ultimate flexibility in your construction management solution, it's tough to beat Construction Viz.

We believe in rapid development and add features for our clients almost weekly, unlike other products where you hope to make it into their next six-month development release.

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market.

To find out more about what Construction Viz can provide, or if you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up or delivering solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem, you can request a free one-hour consultation or demo below.

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