TOPIC: Ratings, Yes or No?

Dom, When is this upgrade coming?

Soon?

We are getting more and more HI's that want to narrate the pic caption and not the report body.

Forget Hutchinson's wild wants and get a "basic" report format we can work around. No frills and fireworks, just post it once, have it print once and be able to generate a report from the 100 pictures we take at each inspection!  Some of us will never report on site. It takes too much brain work to make it a worthwhile report to do it on site. If I want to generate a report on site I'll get a carbon copy check box form to fill in.

I am not a computer programing guru but I don't see that a check box to make a picture caption print in the summary or make every picture caption go to RED is a big issue. If we take a picture of it, it warrants a repair and post to the summary. If not, leave it out and print it to the end or attach them in an email.

I am not a computer programing guru but I don't see that a check box to make a picture caption print in the summary or make every picture caption go to RED is a big issue. If we take a picture of it, it warrants a repair and post to the summary. If not, leave it out and print it to the end or attach them in an email.

I agree with this and I have spoken to Dom about working from photos and copying to summary. It would save me a lot of time. I hope he has something in his next upgrade. The box to check to copy to report summary would be sweet.

So we would batch add photos, review and email.

Hey David and David (hehe),

Robert's method is actually already in the program, he wasn't suggesting anything new. The post here: www.homeinspectorpro.com/component/optio...mid,182/topic,286.0/ is the way I'm going right now. I know it seems simple to just add a check box 'Add to Summary' but it actually is more complicated as all comments right now are stored in the Red/Black lists and the program loops through all of those to create the summary as it's processing the rest of the report. I think what is discussed on the other thread will actually make this a much quicker and efficient method as you'll still be able to store the narratives in the template.

The upcoming new version actually has lots of new features being built into it at once which is why it's been a month since I've put anything out (credit card processing, a lot of photo options, InspectVue template->HIP template converter, etc). If you want, you can download 2.6.0.6 which includes a cleaned up summary (removed some of the extra spaces), fixed a few other issues but mostly had improvements for people using the Q1 at the 600x480 resolution. The othe

As before, that sounds acceptable to me.

The first thing I do is load all my pictures, not that they are all used but so they will be retained on HIP if need in the future and my computer crashes.

Then I dictate of select a narrative for the picture.

Then I have to stick the narrative in the picture or in the RED box so it will hit the summery.

Then I have to get the pic in the right section of the report. Sometimes in sections that are complex, there are several places the pic can be placed. If I don't remember where that was and am not being redundant by re-printing to the caption from the drop down box, the pic ends up in another section from where the narrative is. This requires side-by-side windows or two computers to do.

My other dilemma is that often I will cover several issues (up to three or four) in one picture. This really gets to be a mess trying to figure where the pic went!

Can you email me a sample of one of your reports. I want a better idea on a few things that you are doing.

www.midtninspections.com/Infrared-home-i...-sample-reports.html