Photo Tags in Dashpivot allow users to label and categorise photos with keywords. They help sort images so they can be easily searched, filtered, and grouped. This makes managing large volumes of project photos more efficient.
Photo tags are typically used to group photos by:
Work activity/asset (eg. structures, earthworks, assembly)
Location (eg. zone 1, building C, level 8)
Type (eg. delay, defect, milestone)
Function (safety, quality, environment)
Whether you take hundreds of photos, or hundreds of thousands of photos, it pays to be able to find information quickly, and photo tagging will help you do this.
Types of Photo Tags
Project Photo Tags - appear in every team on a project (these can only be setup and edited by a project controllers and org controllers)
Team Photo Tags - appear in that specific team (these can only be setup and edited by team controllers, project controllers and org controllers)
Learn more on how to set up photos tags on Dashpivot Web
Common Mistakes:
Don't create too many tags! It's easy to go overboard, but if you have too many to choose from, your team is less likely to find and use the correct tag. Try to keep it simple — fewer than 30 in total is a good number.
Don't make your tags too specific. The tags should be general categories of photos (such as names of photo albums).
For example, if you plan on taking photos of several retaining walls, it's better to create a tag for 'retaining wall' rather than tags for each wall, such as 'retaining wall 1', 'retaining wall 2', etc. You can always add more detail in the photo description (which is also searchable), and this is where you could write 'retaining wall 1'.