At Remix we demonstrated a typical construction process that normally would take 2 or more hours to complete - we demonstrated how it could be done in 2 minutes.
A picture of a road defect was taken using a HTC Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. Embedded within the image was EXIF data that contained latitude and longitude information.
The defect picture is selected and attached to a form using the gesture-enabled WinMo 6.5 device. A defect form was downloaded from Keystone with all properties and attributes including what properties were mandatory (shown in red). Tsarina filled out the details and submitted the defect form making it immediately accessible within Incite Keystone.
Tsarina then assumed the role of another Incite user back at the office that was acting on the defect. As can happen in any complex project the defect may or may not be an actual defect. Within Incite Keystone’s full jQuery/AJAX interface the defect form was accessed and then forwarded to a particular sub-contractor (played by me) as a Request for Information (RFI). Tsarina then attached a design specification to the RFI for the defect to be checked against.
The goal of the demo for us was to demonstrate how Incite Keystone can be used outside of the browser – giving the customer a series of tools and allowing them to find their own way of doing things. Instead of checking the RFI in a browser all files linked to the RFI were downloaded to my notebook using Microsoft Sync Framework. An icon in the Windows 7 taskbar displayed the progress of this download then pulsed.
One of the features we liked about Windows 7 was that you could right click on icons in the taskbar and get a Jump List. This allowed us to add multiple actions to the icon – you can open the original RFI, the defect image or the design specification that was added to the RFI.
Clicking on the mail icon opens the RFI message in Keystone. The defect image and the document were synchronised to my laptop so I can open them up from my local hard drive using the Jump List.
In the demo I checked the defect image, then opened up the design specification via the Jump List. This allowed me to show the work we had done with Microsoft Office and how once again a user could work outside the browser.
Incite Keystone’s Office Ribbon allows users to Search, Edit/Update documents and also form related information (e.g. Defect, RFI etc) from within Microsoft Office. The Incite Ribbon header shows all the options available to the user.
By clicking ‘Search’ a panel is rendered on the right of the document being reviewed and you can search across all text within documents in Keystone.
Double clicking on any document returned by the search downloads the document and opens it within Microsoft Word. This can easily be uploaded back to Keystone as a new document revision by selecting Update Form.
Updating the form allows an Incite user to modify important meta-data prior to saving the document within Incite Keystone.
Lastly the demo was concluded by displaying the original Defect on a high-resolution aerial photograph of a roadway which had been stitched into Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth). This allowed me to zoom into 10M above the roadway as opposed to Bing’s 200M zoom level. Zooming in and out was awesome due to the Silverlight Map Control for Virtual Earth. Within the Keystone Office Ribbon I selected ‘View on Map’ and was able to explore Incite Keystone form data spatially.
