Specifying the location of Asta Site Progress photographs

Mobile users can take photographs and associate them with tasks. You can choose whether these photographs should be downloaded to whichever computer is importing progress information that is recorded remotely, or whether they should be stored in the Cloud. Storing photographs in the Cloud rather than on the computer that carries out the import means that they are available to view on any computer that has access to the project, provided that the computer has access to the Internet.

If you specify that photographs should be downloaded, you use the File Locations tab of the Options dialog to specify the location in which they should be stored once they have been submitted. Within the folder that you specify here, photographs are stored in a series of subfolders, each subfolder named after the project name, subproject name and unique task ID/task name. For example, if a photograph is attached to a Groundworks task with a unique task ID of ABC1 which is located in the Plot 1 subproject of the Site A project, the photograph will be stored in a subfolder called \Site A - Plot 1\ABC1 - Groundworks\. The file name of each photograph is the date and time at which the photograph was taken.

If Mobile users have taken any photographs and associated them with tasks, the photographs can be viewed in the project by viewing a task's dated notes on the Task tab of the Bar and Task Properties dialog. If a photograph has been associated with a task, it appears as a dated note with a hyperlink that you can click to view the photograph. If you display the Attachments field in the spreadsheet, this field displays the file name or URL of photographs that have been associated with tasks. ALT-click the file name or URL to display the Notes section of the Task tab of the Bar and Task Properties dialog, from where you can view the photograph by clicking it. If a bar contains more than one task, you must display the bar in one-task-per-line-mode before ALT-clicking the file name or URL.

To specify whether photographs should be downloaded or stored in the Cloud:

Click the Site Progress tab of the Backstage view.
Click Log in and sign into Asta Site Progress configuration using the window that appears.
Click Settings. The Site Progress Settings dialog appears.
Click the Import tab.
Select the Keep photo attachments in the cloud... check box to specify that all photographs that have been taken by Mobile users should be stored in the Cloud, or clear the check box to specify that they should be downloaded to whichever computer is importing progress information that has been recorded remotely.
Click OK to save your changes and return to the Site Progress tab of the Backstage view.

To specify the location of Asta Site Progress photographs if they are downloaded from the Cloud:

Click the File tab, then click Options. The Options dialog appears.
Click the File Locations tab.
Specify the folder in which to store photographs that have been taken by Mobile users against "Asta Site Progress Photos".
Click OK.