Photos Details
Data Associated with Photos
With Autodesk® Build, you can import photos to various features, including Sheets, Issues, and Forms. There are pieces of information associated with each photo imported to Build:
- Taken by
- Taken on
- Added on
- Title
- GPS location
To view this information for a specific photo, navigate to the Photos section, click the photo you'd like to know more about, and view the "Details."
Taken By
Autodesk® Build will display each photo's creator. A photo's creator is the user logged into the device when it's imported or captured, regardless of what's in the imported photo's metadata.
Taken On and Added On
There are two separate timestamps associated with photo creation, taken on and added on.
Taken on marks the time the photo was taken. If a new photo is captured on a device, it will use the device's current time as "taken on." When the photo is imported, Build will try to read the time taken from the photo's EXIF metadata.
If EXIF metadata isn't available, the imported photo will use the device's current timestamp at the time of importing. EXIF timestamps don't support time zones, so the time zone will be the device's current time zone.
Added on marks the time that the photo was added to Build. This is always the time that the photo was synced to Build, regardless of whether it was imported or captured directly from the device.
For filtering and viewing photos, Build uses the "Taken on" date. However, you can view both timestamps on web and iOS by viewing the photo details.
Photo Title
For photos added from your device's library or desktop, the title metadata will remain the same. If you capture a photo within Autodesk Construction Cloud, the name will contain the date metadata from the photo. You can edit the title and search for this information at any time.
GPS Location
Autodesk® Build will import the GPS location if it’s available from the photo.