BuildBook Product Updates

New:

We’ve added a new Chat widget to the navigation bar to give you more visibility into unread Chat messages, across all of your projects. When you have any unread chat messages, a blue dot will appear on the Chat icon in the upper right corner. Just click the icon to see a list of projects with unread messages!

Fixes and improvements:

• The “Up Next” feed in each project has been improved to display any upcoming items for the next 14 days, starting with any items that are Overdue, so that you don’t miss a thing. 

• Email address is now optional when creating a new Lead.
• Clients were able to view the Schedule View in addition to the default Calendar View - this was fixed so that clients only have access to the Calendar View of the Schedule.
• Removed the “Add New” option in the Schedule on the Client Dashboard
  

Schedule enhancements:

• Various UI improvements to the Calendar View in the Schedule, including shading, displaying 5 weeks at a time, and the addition of the "add new" button to add a new Phase or Task to match the Gantt chart view.
• Adjusted sort order of items in the dependency dropdown to show up in the order that they appear alphanumerically

• Made dependency lag persistent: when a parent is moved forward or backward in time (or is resized longer/shorter), all dependents shift the exact same amount and the space (lag) between them is maintained. Items now allow negative lag: i.e. A child can start before the parent on the schedule. Negative lag is treated the same as positive lag - it is maintained when changing the dates of the parent item
• Phases can now be linked/dependent on each other

Fixes and Improvements

• Edits to existing fields in Selections and Budget weren’t saving when the modal was closed too quickly. We improved the experience so that users now see a spinner if data is being updated and so that they can see if the changes are saved or not before closing the modal.
• Fixed a bug in the Gantt chart where the arrow connecting dependencies wasn’t disappearing if the “ends before” field was removed from the dependency.
• Added the ability to remove the date from Change Orders and Payments in the budget - similar to Tasks, Selections, and Phases.
• Made the amount field in Budget and Selection items optional when editing an existing item.
• In the Gantt chart, if the date of an item grouped within a Phase was edited to start before the Phase start date, there was an error. This was fixed so that the parent item’s dates will shift to encompass the new item's dates.
• Fixed an issue in the Schedule where the scroll location didn’t preserve after changing a date in the supermodal.
  

This week, we rolled out an exciting set of schedule enhancements!

This release includes:

- Grouping: Now, you can group items such as Tasks, Selections, and Payments within your Phases. This makes it simple to adjust the dates of phases and still keep everything within it in sync. 

- Calendar View: We also introduced a new Calendar view to go along with the Gantt view. This is now the default view on mobile for all users (Gantt view on a phone is kinda meh, right?) and also the primary view on the Client Dashboard.

- Dependencies (beta) 🎉: We have introduced a beta version of schedule dependencies. Now, you can create dependencies between items in the schedule so that if a date changes for one item, all dependent items will also move accordingly. We are still fine-tuning this new feature, but we wanted to get it into customers’ hands now so that you can take it for a spin and share your feedback with us.

This week we did a bunch of housecleaning to make features like Budget and Selections smoother.

• "Share with Client" checkbox is now available on the “New Task” modal. Sharing a Task with the client was previously only available as an option on an existing Task.
• Resolved a bug where text that was copied and pasted into supermodals throughout the app wasn’t auto-saving.
• Fixed a bug where uploading an image to Files from mobile caused the image to be duplicated a dozen or so times and attached to various logs.
• Line breaks and formatting weren’t appearing within the text of Daily Logs - which is now fixed so that formatting is preserved.
• Fixed a bug where PDFs weren’t uploading on mobile
• Returning to the dashboard after viewing the read-only client dashboard caused some areas of the app to function as read-only, which is now resolved.

Fixed a handful of bugs related to Budget and Selections:

• There was an issue editing the name of an existing Selection Category from the Budget tab where users were taken out of the text box after a letter was typed and needed to click back into the name text box to continue typing the name.
• Selection descriptions in projects created from an existing template took multiple attempts to remove in the new project, which is now fixed.
• When creating a new project from an existing project template, unchecking Budget and checking Selections resulted in the existing Selections to not carry over due to certain aspects of these two features being tied together. Now if Selections are chosen to carry over without the existing Budget, the Selection amounts will appear in the budget.
• Editing costs on Selection Items weren’t saving correctly or weren’t saving at all, which was resolved.
• Now existing due dates in Selection Categories can be removed.
  

• Fixed some bugs in the client dashboard where the new photo viewer (carousel and pinch to zoom) weren’t showing on the Daily Logs, and the file upload button wasn’t working within Files.
• When multiple images are in a Daily Log, the images in the right column were cutting off the menu to download or delete.
• Improvements to the Activity Feed including removing the file name in photos and files, and for projects created from a template, we simplified what appears in the new project feed by removing the individual detailed entries.
• Images in "photos only" view of Daily Logs are now clickable/tappable. 
• New Daily Logs are generating the correct notifications but weren’t showing in the bell dropdown - this has been fixed.