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ScribeWare and Desktop Basics

This video is a good place to get started. We create a new report and go through many of the most basic report writing actions.

The Home Page and Creating a New Report

Understanding Chapters and Sections

ScribeWare reports can be organized into chapters and within each chapter you can create sections and within each section you can create data fields. This is all customizable and the critical logic of

The Left Side Bar

The left side bar inside of a report is where you can...

Preview a report
Publish a report
Copy Report, which will copy all the data in a report to a new report
Review Required Fields
Save Template
Submit feedback
Access Your Settings

Understanding Data Fields

Data fields are where you can build fields to quickly describe materials or site conditions. Later videos will show you how to edit and cuist9mize these. The slides below show you how they work.

Understanding Narratives

Managing a narrative library is a key workflow for writing great reports efficiently and effectively. ScribeWare has powerful tools for creating and managing your pre-made narrative comments.

Keyword searching
Authoring new comments
Saving Narratives and giving them blue labels
Importing Narratives
Favorites
Most Common
Text replacement

Adding Observations

Adding observations is how you write narratives into your report. This series of slides should help you understand the basics of adding an observation.

The Difference Between Narratives and Templates

This is critical to understand prior to making any template or library customizations.

Photos and Videos

This is a basic 101 level overview showing connecting photos and videos and other media to your inspection report

Cutting and Pasting Media Into a Report

This shows using the snipping tool and shows examples of snipping from a product manual right into ScribeWare

How Desktop and Mobile Work Together

ScribeWare runs great on both mobile and desktop! Learn how to the two work together.

The Desktop

This is where you control your whole software system. The desktop will serve as your mothership, from billing information to customizing templates and narrative libraries, to sending out agreements.

Templates and libraries customized on the desktop can be used on the mobile device for use in the field.

The Mobile App

The mobile device works both online and offline. You can gather data and write a complete report, and it will synchronize automatically when you're online.