On-site surveys & assessments are stressful enough. Typing up reports in inDesign or Microsoft Word afterwards is just the dreaded icing on the cake.

In this 20 minute webinar, learn how you can create a survey report template in Layer that can be applied to any type of Survey Data. Layer Director of Customer Success Silvia Lee walks through how easy it is to create any type of report from scratch with Layer's Document Builder as she creates a Playground Equipment Survey Report.

In this video, Zach from the Layer team walks you through our latest and most powerful feature yet — Conditional Formatting in Document Views! 🎉 Now you can easily track revisions, highlight changes, and streamline your workflows with customizable formatting rules. Whether you're working with project updates or data submissions, this tool will save you time and effort.

🎯 What you'll see in this video

• How to set up conditional formatting rules for document views.

• Step-by-step guide to highlighting changes since specific submission dates (e.g., 9/27 or 9/20).

• How to create multiple rules, customize text colors, and export reports with ease.

• Best practices for automating document updates and improving revision tracking.

👉 Who is this feature for?

This feature is perfect for Layer users looking to highlight key data changes without the hassle of manual tracking.

See how Layer's Construction Administration template can help you keep track of it all. Product Manager Georgios Papadogeorgakis will walk you through this template and show you how you can get started customizing everything to your own organization's workflows.

This template includes tools for tracking RFIs, submittals, punch lists, meeting minute notes, and more. Learn how to capture and organize all meeting minute notes, RFIs, site observations, punch lists items and more in a single platform connected directly to Revit.

Connect with Vendors, GCs, and other project stakeholders in a single source of truth so that everyone is on the ball and no time is lost during the most crucial stages of construction.

Customize and export custom reports so that your team is not wasting time formatting docs, and instead concentrating on what matters: delivering beautiful spaces your clients will love.

You can now share views from your Project with others and control what specific information they can see without compromising any other Project data!

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Use this feature to update all the annotations on your drawing view with one click!

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Check out Layer's newest feature: Focus Mode

Show only the fields you want when you turn on Focus Mode

See more details here: https://help.layer.team/en/articles/9274561-focus-mode

You can now add Automations in your Templates!

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Check out our latest feature here to create a Favorites list at the top of your Categories for your views.

See more details here: https://help.layer.team/en/articles/9274562-favorite-views

Learn how you can use Layer's latest feature: Summary Document View to create all sorts of summarized tables and PDF documents. You can use this feature to create schedules, tables, product galleries and more!

Layer's New API is now in private beta!

Sign up for Layer today to use: https://layer.team/demo/

Fore more information about our API and our step by step Google Sheets guide, click here: https://docs.layer.team/reference/google-sheets-1

This video will show you how to use Layer Automations to create automated alerts when suppliers add new projects.

This webinar led by Layer Founder Zach Soflin will walk you through managing FF&E in Layer. The best part, it's all linked directly to your Revit model!

Warranty information is often filed away and forgotten about. When equipment fails, this information may not even be checked to see if a claim could be made!

So how should you store all this data and what can you do with that data? Join us this week to see how you can implement a smart warranty tracking system organized around your building.

In less than 15 minutes, founder Zach Soflin will show you how to add assets to your model spatially, then assign expiration dates and automate reminders.

The technician at your facility has access to lots of vital on the ground information. They know that piece of equipment is on its last legs and needs to be treated carefully.

But they don’t always have access to the information they need. For instance, what if that piece of equipment has a recall, but that information is sitting in a manager’s email somewhere else?

These missed connections cause inefficiencies that don’t need to exist. This week on Layer Quick Bytes, Zach Soflin, AIA will show you how to create a barcode connection at your site that you can link directly to your model.

You can use this to track anything 💺 🖥 🛌 🚓 🏗 🕤 in Layer. All linked directly to your Building Data.

Learn how you can quickly and painlessly track equipment depreciation in Layer

"Where did that chair come from?" is a question that's easy to answer in your own home. It's a more difficult question to answer when the object is at your workplace.

This question may seem insignificant when you're dealing with a chair. However, the equipment may be complex, and maintenance need to know the model number and manufacturer to order spare parts. The chair may have failed prematurely, someone will want information to trace it's providence.

This week on Layer Quick Bytes we'll walk through how you can organize information about equipment around a Revit Model. Then I'll show you how you can search for or create a purchase order linked directly to your space!

Many of the architects and engineers that use Layer may be surprised to find out that a large portion of our user base leverages Layer to run and organize their building operations.

A side effect of this is that they've created a data flywheel between their ops teams and the AEC teams their organization works with. Looking at this data in the context of an upgrade allows the architect or engineer to better understand the spatial performance of a room. This creates a valuable feedback loop for the architect and owner to work through proposed changes to a space.

This week on Layer Quick Bytes I'll be covering a workflow that's native to the operations space: Work Orders. In less time than it takes to have lunch, I'll show you how you can setup a CMMS from scratch in Layer, upload historic work orders, then associate them with a model so that they can be viewed within the context of a space.

If you're interested in learning more about what we visited and saw during our walking tour last week at #AIA2024 join me Friday during lunch time for Layer Quick Bytes!

I'll be revisiting the project that participants walked through and sharing all of the observations we made along the way. I'll also share some of my lessons learned from conducting surveys along the go, including some that I learned from our amazing power user & co-tour leader Julia Mathias Manglitz, APT RP!

The word "spreadsheet" elicits a mixed reaction from many people in the AEC space. Spreadsheets are the root of alot of pain. They can also be an invaluable tool when passing information between organizations or internal teams where our software tools can't talk to eachother.

The problem is, spreadsheets tend to contain dead data. They were created at a set moment in time from an export function or copy & pasting data. As data in your source of truth changes, the spreadsheet does not.

That means that person you are collaborating with is working on outdated information. It may even be outdated by the time that you've emailed it to the them.

Live data is always better. While Layer offers direct Shared Views, sometimes you still need the spreadsheet. If you're already asking how, I invite you to join me for Layer Quick Bytes this week! I'll show you how to create a living spreadsheet that is updated by the Layer API.

Building surveys are the use case that spawned Layer. We were faced with a challenge that's common to any other architect or engineer working on large renovation projects:

How do you collect and organize so much data (in our case over 100k data points!) without losing our collective minds?

Helping our users simplify their building survey process is still one of my favorite things about working at Layer. Our Building Survey template makes it easy to go from data gathering to on-site surveying in about 15 minutes.

We introduced the Layer API at the end of last year. Since then I've seen our users do some really cool things in a variety of systems. I've also noticed that a many of our users are creating links between Layer & PowerBI.

If you've never built an API connection, you might be thinking to yourself "that would be really useful at my company, but where do I start?"

This week on Layer Quick Bytes, I'll show you how easy it is to create that connection yourself with limited coding experience. Join me Friday at 11:30a central / 12:30p eastern where I'll walk you through building this connection yourself!

An effective inventory system is foundational for managing physical assets efficiently. Understanding what equipment you possess, where it is, and what condition it is in across your organization is crucial for implementing proactive maintenance strategies.

Layer Founder Zach Soflin, AIA will show you how easy it is to leverage Layer's Equipment Inventory Survey template to start digitizing your assets so you always have an accurate understanding of what your team actually has on your site!

Reduce RFI Overhead by 90% in 10 minutes

Field reports provide a chronological account of the construction process. They help architects track whether the project is adhering to the planned schedule and budget.

The problem is, many organizations still use PDFs and Word Documents for this process. That means when you need to access one, you have to go searching through all the other files related to your project.

Want to learn how you can make this process more efficient? This week Zach Soflin, AIA will show you how to Field Reports Faster in Layer.

Join us Friday June 7th at 12:30pm eastern / 11:30am central for Layer Quick Bytes!

This tutorial video will walk you through how you can sync and re-sync a spreadsheet file with Layer. Use this feature to collaborate with

Join me for a quick (10 minute or less) live demo where I'll demonstrate how you can build a Room Data Sheets tool, linked directly to your Revit Model, to speed up your processes by 10x.

Join me over lunch for a quick live demo showing how to build a punch list tool in 10 minutes or less 🥊

Learn how to generate PDF product spec sheets from data stored in Revit, Spreadsheets, or a combination of the two! Layer Director of Customer Success, Silvia Lee will show you the ins and outs of laying out documents in Layer's Document View through this example of a set of FF&E product specification sheets.

Layer's New API is now in private beta!

Sign up for Layer today to use: https://layer.team/demo/

Fore more information about our API and our step by step Excel guide, click here: https://docs.layer.team/reference/excel-1

Layer's New API is now in private beta!

Sign up for Layer today to use: https://layer.team/demo/

Fore more information about our API and our step by step Power BI guide, click here: https://docs.layer.team/reference/power-bi-1