Photo Controls

In keeping with the tradition of data capture, Field Squared includes photo controls you can add to any document you create to capture images or a series of images and add markup to each image.

There are 3 type of photo controls. Single photos, photo collection, and Flow. Each one having it's own settings and way of being added into a document.

Photo Comment Flow Photo

Single Photos

iPad Photo Controls Camera — Mobile app camera in action

This control is used as a means to capture a single photo. After you have captured a photo you can click on the image and add markup to it.

Photo Capture Controls Settings

Photo Collection

A photo collection lets you capture multiple photos and add them to your document. This control has it's own individual settings which are fully customizable.

Photo Collection Settings

Photo collection settings has a field which lets you change the maximum number of photos a collection can have. The default is one photo capture slot, but the default display is set for 5 which can be changed using the Max Photos setting.

Photo Max

Flow Photo

iPad Photo Flow — Flow Photo controls in the mobile app

Flow Photo controls function the same as a single photo capture in that they only capture one photo at a time. Only these controls are placed next to each other in customizable rows and columns. The settings for flow photo include the ablitity to add borders to each control as well as being able to adjust the number of rows a control can occoupy.

Flow settings

Markup

Taking photos isn't the only thing that can be done with the Field Squared app. Photo Markup is a very important and superbly useful tool included witht the app. There are a variety of tools which are available for this task.

From left to right include

Line, Rectangle, Circle, Dot graph, Arrow, Text, Object Select & Move, Undo, Trash, Add, Settings, and Line Color.

iPad Photo Markup Tools — Photo markup tools in the mobile app

These tools are supremely useful, especially when used in conjuction with inspections and data collection duties.

Field Squared Documentation

Photo Controls