Hi there,

Bruno from the GovWell team here. Buckle up, this is going to be a long (but great) update! Over the past month, our team has introduced a sweeping number of updates to our Plan Review feature. They were inspired by your feedback, so thank you for your input in making GovWell better!

We have many new things to talk about so let's dive in!

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Search in Plan Set

You can access the Search tab in the left sidebar or by pressing Command⌘ + F (MacOS) or Ctrl + F (Windows). Type the keyword you're looking for and our system will browse through the text content of every page in the selected plan set. Our system will look for any matches, and show the respective file name, page title, page number, and a snippet.

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Plan Pages in Universal Search

Plan pages now show up in global search. Click a hit and plan review opens on that page with the keyword highlighted. You don't have to open the record first.

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Page Titles

In the Files tab, thumbnails now display auto-detected page titles (e.g. "Floor Plan"). You can edit the titles using the pen icon next to the page title in the thumbnail.

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Jump to Page and File Selection

Search for specific pages within plan files using the page selector or the following command in MacOS: Command + G or Windows: Ctrl + G

Select the files from this Plan Set that you want to view from a dedicated dropdown menu.

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Cloud Callout

A new shape that allows you to draw a cloud with a text callout attached to it! Includes customization options such as line thickness and colors.

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Freehand Pen & Highlighter

Freehand Pen - Freely draw draw, sign and make precise annotations with this tool

Highlighter - Use this tool to add semi-transparent area callouts on the plan itself. Great to highlight text and areas of interest!

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Fill Color and Opacity Settings for Shapes

Easily customize the fill color and opacity in any shapes now! Very useful for calling out areas without relying on comments.

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Text Annotations

• Customizable in size and colors
• Support code book links & comment templates
• Don't require a response by the applicant
• Appear in a Notes section on the corrections report cover

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Stamp Settings

New controls for opacity, rotation, and size can apply to stamps across many pages at once

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Fit to Page Width

Easily fit your plans to fit the width of your plan viewer. This is very helpful when a plan set mixes different page sizes.

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Undo/Redo Actions

Undo and redo your last actions. This feature works with any actions related to markups (create/move/edit/delete actions and calibration changes).
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Keyboard shortcuts are Command⌘ + Z (undo) / Command⌘ + Shift⇧ + Z (redo) for MacOS devices and Ctrl + Z (undo) / Ctrl + Shift⇧+ Z (redo) for Windows devices

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Preset and Reusable Scales

• You now have preset standard scales to apply to a page in the measurement tool

• You can copy existing scales from other pages to use across the set

• It is possible to configure how precise the measurements are as well!

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Three new measurement types were added:

• Volume:
• Radius/diameter
• Angle

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Thinner Measurement Lines

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Updated Print/Export Menu

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Comments in Plan Pages

The Corrections Report PDF displays all the comments left by reviewers in each plan page, pointing exactly to the area the comment refers to.

All plan pages also include labels with their respective file name and page number.

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Comment Search with Code Book Names

Searching in the comments sidebar now matches code book item names, not just the comment body text!

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And that's our update! Thanks for sticking with me all the way through this update - I hope these features our engineering team deployed help you deliver even better and quicker plan reviews to your applicants.

We'd also like to invite you to check out our Guide to Plan Review which goes into detail about the Plan Review process and all the tools at your disposal. Stay tuned for more updates!