Archive for Jun, 2011

vWorkApp’s new Job Sheets!

Last night’s release introduced the first of our new reporting suite: Job Sheets!

Job Sheets are designed to be your paper iPhone. For all those occasions when you need to give someone details about a job, but they don’t have a SmartPhone available.

Job Sheet

There are many possible uses for it, but here are a few ideas: if one of your team forgets their phone; if part of your team are contractors, and you don’t want to buy them equipment; or maybe you simply want to start low-tech with vWorkApp—Job Sheets let you use vWorkApp without a SmartPhone.

There’s a ton of nice features we’ve built into the Job Sheets, but here are a few to wet your appetite:

Customize which fields are shown

Job Sheets are based on the templates that you create in vWorkApp. That means that you can set which fields are shown on the Job Sheet.

Job Sheet - Custom Fields

Space to write

A box is printed next to each field, letting you know that you need to write in it. Alternatively, if you’ve already filled in the field in vWorkApp, then we display the value there instead.

Change the map

Each Job Sheet contains a map showing the location of the job. If you like to show something different on the map then you can reposition it or change its zoom level. It even supports Google Street View so that you can show the property you’re driving too.

Job Sheet - Changing the Map

Looks good printed

Job Sheets have been especially designed to look great printed. Give it a go and let us know what you think.

Print all workers, some workers, or just one

You can select exactly who’s job sheets you want to print. You can also easily select to print All workers.

Job Sheet - Selecting Workers

Bookmark

And lastly, since the report is a webpage, you can always bookmark the report to get back to it later.

vWork Saves McLeod Cranes 5% on ACC Fees.

Scott McLeod from McLeod Cranes is delighted with how vWork is enhancing workplace safety.

“Last week we had our ACC Audit. The results arrived today. McLeod Cranes achieved a recommendation for secondary accreditation. Which is awesome and meets our goals. One thing that really stood out in the audit however was vWork – specifically the ability to customise the job to the client. From the audit:

The new vWork system has been developed to allow employees a step by step process for identification and management of hazards. A lift plan is formulated for each job and generic hazards identified and highlighted for the job. If the client has any additional requirements and/or any site specific hazards are not generic then they are added to the job plan. Generic hazards identified in smaller jobs include people, powerlines, terrain etc.

vWork had a great impact on our audit. Thanks again.”

vWorkApp goes secure (256bit SSL)

With Thursday’s release vWorkApp is now delivered using 256-bit SSL.

What this means (for the non geeks out there) is that your information is protected and kept private. All data exchanged between you and your team is protected from eavesdroppers. The encryption used is to the same standard as that used for banking websites and other financial institutions.

It also protects you (and us) from scams, where websites pretend to be us in order to get your password. The padlock in the upper righthand corner of your browser lets you verify that you’re really looking at vWorkApp.

SSL