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What's New
Stay informed and in sync with the latest updates to your construction operations platform.
November 2024
Streamline Deleted Asset Data Recovery
Multi-Select Reinstate is Here!
We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to our Asset Management: the ability to reinstate multiple assets at once!
Previously, reinstating deleted records required restoring each item individually. With our latest update, you can now select multiple rows at a time for reinstatement, saving you valuable time and effort.
Here’s how it works:
- Use Shift to select a range of rows.
- Use Ctrl (or Cmd on Mac) to select or deselect individual rows.
- Or simply click to select as expected.
Once your rows are selected, the dropdown menu enables seamless bulk actions, including reinstatement. This update makes asset recovery faster and more efficient, allowing you to focus on what matters most—managing your operations effectively.
Toolwatch by AlignOps is committed to continuous improvement to our asset software, and this update is just one of the ways we’re enhancing your user experience. Log in today to try the new multi-select reinstatement feature!
October 2024
Our New Updates are Spook-tacular!
As the air turns crisp and the leaves begin to fall, Align has been brewing up something exciting for you—three spook-tacular new features that will help keep your projects running efficiently and your tools & equipment fully stocked.
No tricks here, just treats ! Let’s dive into the latest updates you can sink your fangs into:
Including
- Job Stock Feature: No More Equipment/Tool Disappearing Acts!
(Available for Enterprise Level Users)
Have you ever experienced the horror of searching for a tool or piece of equipment, only to find it’s mysteriously missing or in short supply? Fear not! With our new Job Stock feature, you’ll always know exactly what’s lurking on-site. This feature gives you a clear view of current quantities for all your assets on a project. You can even set low, target, and high quantity levels to avoid overstocking—or worse—running out of vital equipment when you need it most! - Requisition Browser: Vanquish Equipment Delays
(Available for Pro & Enterprise Level Users)
No more bone-chilling delays with equipment requests. Our new Requisition Browser gives your warehouse managers the power to review, adjust, and fulfill jobsite requests with precision. If the stock levels for an item are low, they can add it to a purchase order—or, for immediate needs, add items directly to a pick ticket. It's a frighteningly easy way to improve communication between the jobsite and warehouse. - Collaborate Feature: Communicate Before It’s Too Late
(Available for ALL Level Users)
With our latest Collaborate update, you’ll never be left in the dark again. The new color-coded Collaborate bubbles will alert you to new messages within tickets, making sure you can address any urgent communication right away. No need to dig through the depths of your inbox—you’ll have everything you need at a glance, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks!
Don’t Let Your Project Turn Into a Nightmare!
Align is here to help you keep your operations running as smoothly as a witch’s broomstick this October.
Check out the spine-tingling new release video below and see how these new features can keep your projects from being haunted by equipment shortages, delays, and miscommunication.
August 2024
See What's New!
We've got several new features in our Align 2024.1 Release.
Including
- A new look for Mobile Transfers- This small, but powerful update clarifies and improves the speed of your mobile transfer process saving time and that's always a good thing!
- The ability to create custom Task and Workflows will improve the speed and accuracy of your asset management processes. Rate Sheets and Cost Details will always be updated when a new tool or piece of equipment is added to Align because you can specifically assign someone to do it!
- Wireless Scanning allows users to use their phone to scan for BLE tagged items including Milwaukee and DeWalt BLE tagged tools! Not a single Align Competitor can do that! Spend LESS time inventorying onsite tools and MORE time getting projects done! You can schedule a demo to learn more about wireless tracking here.
Watch our new 2024.1 Release Video 👇 to learn more!
July 2024
**Update Coming to Mobile Transfer Interface!**
We want to inform you about an upcoming improvement to Align's Mobile Transfer User Interface!
Starting the first week of August, you'll notice some slight but impactful changes designed to streamline and enhance your transfer process.
What's Coming?
The new Transfer Interface is crafted to provide a more intuitive and efficient experience, making your tasks easier and faster to complete. To help you get acquainted with these updates, we've prepared a short video that highlights the key changes and improvements.
- With the upcoming 2024.1 Align Release, mobile Transfers are submitted by tapping the SUBMIT button at the bottom of the screen instead of the 3-dot stack in the corner.
- On the Transfer Items screen, the TRANSFER button has been moved to the bottom and an additional SIGNATURE button has been added.
We've also created some additional assets to share with your teams to prepare for this slight change to the Mobile Transfer Process.
Step by Step Guide
This PDF will show your team members how to complete a mobile transfer with the new UI
Download PDFMay 2024
Video: Recent Updates and Highlights
Watch our latest product update video
April 2024
Video: Recent Updates and Highlights
Watch our latest product update video
March 2024
Video: Recent Updates and Highlights
Watch our latest product update video
February 2024
New Year, New Features
Get Notified on Service Requests
Using Service and Calibration? Hop into your settings and sign up for email or SMS notifications when new service requests are created.
Don't wait. Get Custom Report notifications.
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.
January 2024
Same company. Same platform. Sharp new look.
ToolWatch has rebranded to Align.
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!
December 2023
Highlights from notifications and custom reports
Don't wait. Get notified on job cost calculations.
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.
Find blanks in your custom reports.
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.
November 2023
All the new and improved in November
See the gear icon? Choose your columns!
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.
Select your VIN, License Plate and State Fields
VIN, License Plate, License Plate State are now available options in the item browser column selector:
Item Details Now with Replacement Cost
Easily access replacement cost information while viewing the details of your assets:
Navigation and Permissions Updates
Platform Navigation
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
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!
October 2023
Platform Updates
Data Update Coming: Your Equipment Assets = Equipment Type
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!
Select columns to display on rate sheets
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!
Paste images in Cloud now available
As simple as using CTRL V!
TW App Updates
Count Inventory added to the Field App
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.
Integrations Updates
Spectrum integration now appends division
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.
September 2023
Platform Updates
Collaborate is now on the Align App
Collaborate - a new messaging feature in Requests which allows you to manage communication on individual requests between the field and warehouse.
Did You Know?
An easy way to distribute Custom Tool and Custom Billing reports
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
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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
For PMs- 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!
August 2023
Platform Updates
Use GeoTab?
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!
Document Central has arrived
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.
ToolWatch EHS unified app experience
The new ToolWatch EHS unified app makes it simple for construction businesses to manage their safety protocols and compliance.
July 2023
Platform Updates
Message, Communicate, Collaborate!
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.
Custom Dashboards for Enterprise customers
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
Decimal points have arrived
June 2023
Platform Updates
Introducing the new, roomier, transfer browser
We hear you. You need your space. The transfer browser now has an optimized layout so you can see more and do more.
Don't worry - it won't stop here. We'll roll out a new optimized layout for all browsers across the platform. Stay tuned!
Did You Know?
You can transfer an asset to designate it as Personal Issue (PI)
Sometimes your employees work with assets that are assigned to them throughout their tenure (e.g., keys, cell phone, PPE). These items may be designated as “Personal Issue” (or PI) in ToolWatch.
Enterprise customer? You can use Custom Reports to identify all items with the personal issue flag set.
How do you do that?
- Open a Transfer Ticket.
- Add the asset to this transfer
- Find the asset on the Transfer Ticket. Click on the box under the column PI to assign this tool as Personal Issue. You should see a checkmark in the box.
- Process this ticket. This tool now shows the PI designation in its Tool Record, on future transfers, etc.
Quantity items should not be retired
Retiring a quantity inventory record does not provide any value and can sometimes cause confusion.
The best practice for quantity inventory items is to perform an inventory adjustment. Performing an inventory adjustment on quantity items is a more accurate reflection of your real-world inventory and will help you keep your data clean and useful.
Billing streams are like light switches
Sometimes our customers ask "why do I have items that are still being billed on the billing browser"?
If this is happening to you, you have an open billing stream that was not closed on a transfer.
Think of billing streams and a light switch. When a cost center is on the TO side of a transfer, that’s flipping the light switch ON. When a cost center is on the FROM side, it is flipping the light switch OFF.
In the billing browser, you can view the details of that open billing stream and find the transfer that flipped the switch to open the billing stream. All you have to do is process that transfer with that cost center on the From side of the transfer and the date and time after the original billing stream was opened.
May 2023
Platform Updates
New Table Interactions
- Infinite scroll
- In-row action items on right click
- Bulk actions with multi-row select
- Customizable columns & set your own column widths and enable text wrapping
In-Column Filtering
Get to your items fast!
Exact Match
Easily navigate to the exact item you need to find!
More options for more favorites
Did You Know?
Customize your export
- Create the item browser view you need by customizing your columns
- Take the action to export
- Choose User Defined and get your customized view
Coming Soon
Align EHS
- The new Align environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance module makes it simple for construction businesses to manage their safety protocols and compliance.
- Designed for construction organizations of all sizes that need to manage safety procedures and compliance.
- Simpler for construction firms to monitor safety compliance that affects all areas of the business and creates more visibility/accessibility for all teams
Custom dashboards for Enterprise customers
- Create custom dashboards for the System Dashboard, Service and Calibration, Pick Tickets and Transfers, and Purchasing areas.
- Easily create and customize your own dashboards with the specific information and metrics that matter most to you and your team.