What's New

Using Service and Calibration? Hop into your settings and sign up for email or SMS notifications when new service requests are created. 

Are you building a custom report with lots of data? Build it and then move on to something else. When it's done, you'll see a new notification and can click from there to your report when it's ready. 

ToolWatch has rebranded to Align. Our mission is the same. To make construction safer, more productive, and more profitable and we will continue do this by providing operations software solutions to the challenges contractors face everyday around asset, labor, and safety management. Align arms contractors with the tools to strengthen your operations in support of more consistently successful projects and better business outcomes like increased profitability and reduced risk.

The biggest change — we will communicate with you from Align Technologies email address moving forward. Please safe list our new email domain @aligntech.co to make sure you get all our communication!

Questions? Reach out to your Customer Success Manager or send an email to support@aligntech.co.

And stay tuned for more product updates!

Now you can sign up for a notification for when job cost and billing calculations are complete. Start your calculations, move on to other things, come back when you are notified. 

Clean data you can trust is essential to construction operations. Now you can use blank values in custom reports to filter down on data that need to be, but isn't there. 

Now available on all tables in the platform: 

Just look in the lower right-hand corner of any table in the platform and you can configure your view. 

VIN, License Plate, License Plate State are now available options in the item browser column selector:

Easily access replacement cost information while viewing the details of your assets: 

Platform Navigation. What does that mean? No more portals!!! We have now combined all the features that were split across the three different portals and combined them into one. That does mean that some items that you may be used to navigating to in a certain area have moved. This was done so that we could keep the navigation pane on the left organized in an easy-to-use way. We will be doing a phased release, so if you don’t see changes to your navigation yet, you will soon!

Platform Roles and Permissions is a significant revamp to the interface for creating and editing user roles in the platform. The changes that have been made are intended to drastically reduce the time and effort it takes to create and edit roles in the platform. We will be doing a phased release, so if you don’t see changes to your navigation yet, you will soon!

Data classification is important for supporting your employees in a more efficient workflow, in better reporting and informed decision making and in feeling good about the integrity of your data. Our platform has long had the option to classify your assets as Tools or Materials, Kits or Bulk Items. And now, as our customers’ needs grow and evolve, we have introduced Equipment as an asset type. Everyone’s data will be updated for you so that you don’t have to. Assets that are utilizing fields in the item detail equipment tab such as license tag, vin, meter, etc. will be transitioned to equipment. Once this is complete, you can start taking action on reporting on and informing your decision making when it comes to how you manage your equipment. Stay tuned for more on this, and on Equipment Management in our platform!

Tired of seeing every single column available on a rate sheet in Cloud? Want to target your rate sheet interaction to only the data points you need to review or update? The power is now in your hands - select columns to display is now available!

As simple as using CTRL V!

The Count Inventory functionality now exists in both the Field App and Warehouse App. Field Users can create Bar Code Scannable counts for projects without having to switch back and forth between Warehouse and Field Modes.

Are you using Spectrum and reporting by division? In the past you had to manually add division number to each employee, location and cost center. Now. the Align Spectrum integration description field appends division number to location, cost center and employee so there's no more manual work. 

Collaborate - a new messaging feature in Requests which allows you to manage communication on individual requests between the field and warehouse.

A special thanks to our Solutions Engineer, Jay Shattell for breaking this down!

*Note: custom reports and scheduled custom reports are for Enterprise customers

Follow these steps and you can deliver a single tool report to all Superintendents and a billing report that will deliver to both PMs and Superintendents showing tools and charges relevant to their projects.

Tool Report distributed to Assignment Supervisors

Create a Custom Report

• Using the Tool Browser type or edit a pre existing custom report of the same type
• Add and sequence the available fields based on the information you want represented in the report
• Apply any filters needed to control the information represented

IMPORTANT

• Add the following filter - SupervisorEntityId in the Tool Browser Type Report - and set the value of the filter to CurrentUser (once this filter is set it is likely may that the records will no longer be displayed, this is to be expected and any relevant records will be displayed when the report is delivered)

• Save the report

Schedule the Report

• Create a new schedule
• From the Type drop-down, select All Supervisors
• Choose between HTML or PDF formats
• Set the Frequency and Time/Days
• Save 

Custom Billing Reports distributed to Cost Center Managers AND Assignment Supervisors: Monthly Posted Charges - PMs and Monthly Posted Charges - Superintendents

You will need 2 Versions of this report, one to distribute to Superintendents(Assignment Supervisors) and one to distribute to PMs(Cost Center Managers)

Create the Billing Report For Project Managers

• Create a Custom Report using the Billing report type or edit a pre-existing custom report of the same type
• Add and Sequence the available fields based on the information you want represented in the report
• Apply any filters needed to control the information represented

IMPORTANT 

• For Supervisors - Add the following filter - AssignmentSupervisorID - in the Billing Type Report.
• For PMs - Add the following filter **CostCenterManagerId and set the value of the filter to CurrentUser**
• Save the report

Create the Report for Superintendents

• Follow the same steps listed above
• For Superintendents - Add the following filter AssignmentSupervisorId and set the value of the filter to CurrentUser
• Save the Report

Schedule the Reports

• Create a new schedule
• From the Type drop-down, select All Users
• Choose between HTML or PDF formats
• Set the Frequency and Time/Days
• Save

For Superintendents

• Create a new schedule
• From the Type drop-down, select All Supervisors
• Choose between HTML or PDF formats
• Set the Frequency and Time/Days
• Save

Once the reports are created and scheduled, any additional supervisors and Cost Center managers added into ToolWatch should receive these reports accordingly.

Boom!

We’ve recently launched an integration with GeoTab that’s easy to set up and works directly with your GeoTab account. While we will expand our integration in the future, starting today, you can pull critical information over for your equipment and fleet assets right into the platform including: 

• Meters
• Engine hours
• GPS Location
• VIN

Get a bird’s eye view of your asset on a map, right in your ToolWatch platform view. 

Contact your customer success manager to learn more!

Introducing Document Central - the ultimate solution for EHS customers to effortlessly centralize and manage their critical files in a secure and user-friendly document repository. 

Seamlessly navigate, track revisions, and restore deleted items with ease, empowering your team with unparalleled control.

Plus, with our cutting-edge EHS mobile app, your field users can access these vital documents on the go, ensuring safety and compliance are always at their fingertips.

The new ToolWatch EHS unified app makes it simple for construction businesses to manage their safety protocols and compliance.

Available today on pick tickets, transfers and Requisitions in Cloud and Field App. Broader Platform and Mobile App availability coming soon. 

Collaborate is a messaging feature that allows users to communicate on Requisitions, Pick Tickets, and Transfers. Comments can be made in a ticket to allow better communication across teams.

Comments made in a Requisition will follow the Requisition to Pick Ticket and then Transfer, living together the whole way.

Enterprise customers can now create and publish visualizations of Custom Report data, giving them the ability to display critical data points and insights to help them manage their day to day