in4mo Task Reporter 15.2 takes FloorPlanner to the Next Level
Mobile release 15.2 will introduce several improvements to the mobile application. These improvements are described below. Depending on the platform, the look of the mobile application may differ slightly from the screenshots shown here.
Important notice!
To ensure secure and smooth usage of the in4mo in4mo Task Reporter application the minimum operating system requirement for Android (Samsung etc.) devices will be increased to 8.0. If you are using an earlier version, you will need to update your operating system to avoid problems with the in4mo application.
Possibility to Change the Password from Task Reporter
Sometimes it happens that the password to the in4mo tool is forgotten, or it must be updated for security reasons, and in those situations the password has until now had to be set in the web portal, but now it is finally possible to change the password from the Task Reporter mobile app as well.
After entering the username and customer code, the password field becomes visible on the mobile app, along with the “Forgot your password?” button, through which the password can be reset.
After clicking the button, a notification will be shown saying “You will receive a message with instructions on how to reset your password shortly.” Press ‘OK’ to continue.
An email message with a password reset link is then sent to the entered email address, and a new password can be defined via that link.
NOTE: Passwords for Single Sign On users are handled outside in4mo and will not be able to use this functionality for their passwords.
Possibility to Log Out from Accounts (Android and Windows)
NOTE: This functionality was implemented on iOS (Apple) devices already in the previous release. In this release the functionality becomes available for Android (Samsung etc.) and Windows devices too.
To improve security and to prevent misuse of the application and the data in it, we are introducing the possibility to log out from the in4mo Task Reporter mobile application or from specific accounts (if several accounts are used simultaneously). This functionality can be useful when several people use the same device.
Logging out is done in the accounts view (available in the app menu), by pressing the logout button.
This will prompt a popup asking for confirmation to log out.
To log out, the Yes option must be chosen. If there are unsent messages in that specific account, a warning will be shown and logging out will be hindered.
Once the logout has been confirmed, the account will be shown on the account list as disabled, and the logout button is disabled.
To log back in on that account, the account is pressed, and the usual login page appears.
FloorPlanner
In this mobile version we are introducing several improvements related to the FloorPlanner drawing tool, which are presented below.
Improved Logic When Positioning Items on Walls
To avoid items that are visible on both sides of a wall, such as windows, doors, or passageways, ending up in places that structurally don’t work, we have improved the logic of positioning these items.
When a floorplan is drawn using the recently introduced wall thickness functionality, FloorPlanner will consider the measurements of both sides of a wall, and will only allow for windows, doors and passageways to be placed within an area that is shared by both sides of the wall.
In the wall view, the frame within which the item can be position will be shown by a dotted line, indicating that the measurements on the other side of the wall are different and therefore affect where the item can be placed.
Room Types Mandatory
To avoid problems with missing or unusable iCC-measurements, it is important that room types are defined in the FloorPlanner drawing tool. To make sure no floor plans get saved without this important information, the drawing tool now makes sure that if iCC is in use, a floorplan cannot be saved unless a room type has been defined for all the rooms in the drawing.
If room type is missing in one or more rooms, a notification will be shown:
(Interior) Walls That Don’t Start From the Floor
Sometimes buildings have walls that don’t extend from the ceiling all the way down to the floor. This can be either for structural reasons or because piping and/or wiring is enclosed in the ceiling. To allow for such walls to be added to the floorplans, we are now adding a new ‘Distance from floor’ parameter to the wall menu.
Often these smaller wall-like elements don’t necessarily divide a space into separate rooms, and in those cases, they should be added to the floorplans as ‘interior walls’.
These ‘interior walls’ are a new way of adding walls to the floor plans. They are actual wall-like structures that don’t split the area into separate rooms and are not to be mixed with the already existing functionality called ‘virtual walls’, which are not actual walls or wall-like at all but do separate the area into two rooms. Virtual walls are used e.g. to separate an open concept kitchen from the living room that is in the same space.
A wall can be defined as an interior wall by filling the checkbox ‘interior wall’, in the wall menu. Note that this checkbox is available only for walls which do not start from the floor. Also note that a wall cannot be both virtual and interior, so both boxes cannot be checked simultaneously.
Sloping Ceilings
In rooms with sloping ceilings, you want to be able to define different wall heights for different walls of the room. This is now possible by defining two heights for the ceiling or wall, which is easy with the help of the different colors assigned to the two ends of walls.
The sloping ceiling is considered in the wall measurements that FloorPlanner calculates automatically and can also be observed in the 3D view.
Faster Navigation Between Walls and Rooms
In the wall view it’s now easy to switch to other walls inside the same room with new navigation buttons. This eliminates the need to go to the floor view to select another wall to work on.
In the floor view one can also switch to the other side of an inner wall by using the “Switch side” button.
Objects Damage Area and Clipart Images Shown in 3D View
Visualizing the size and location of a damage can sometimes be difficult. To help visualize the damage and its location, we are now showing the damaged area in the 3D view, as well as possible objects that may have been added to the drawing. With the existing possibility of taking snapshots of the 3D image, it will now be possible to take more informative snapshots to add e.g. to reports.
Clipart images added on top of objects or on the floor are now also visible in the 3D view. This, combined with enhanced object placement options, allows for the creation of more detailed and realistic plans than ever before.
Versatile Objects
Objects are now more versatile than ever with enhanced size properties and the ability to set their distance from the floor. The area of objects can be subtracted from the floor and wall areas, and their volume can be subtracted from the room volume. This will further improve the accuracy of room measurements.
Keyboard Commands
We are now introducing several useful keyboard shortcuts and commands for desktop users, that make it faster and easier to work in FloorPlanner:
- UNDO: Ctrl + Z
- REDO: Ctrl + Shift + Z or Ctrl + Y
- SAVE: Ctrl + S
Various floorplan objects can also be moved using the arrow keys on the keyboard:
- In Floor View: Use the arrow keys to move objects, clipart, texts, lines, damage, and walls.
- In Wall View: Use the arrow keys to move doors, openings, windows, objects, and damage area.