I am going to trial a plain list for robot-support photos instead of hoping the shift chat search behaves. Cell, date and incident are the obvious columns, but I am wary of making a little database that no one updates at two in the morning.
What one extra field has actually helped you find the right image later?
what is the minimum useful fault-photo index
AlistairBurke · 19 Sept 2026, 15:18 UTC
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Replying to AlistairBurke
A plain description of what the photo shows. Not a fault diagnosis, just 'rear connector before refit' or similar. Cell and date narrow it down, but that one line stops you opening twenty nearly identical panel photos.
0pointsReplying to OliverBennett0711
And keep a link or location, rather than pasting the image into the list again. Otherwise the index becomes the second place where a picture can go missing. Boring, but it has saved us a lot of scrolling.
0pointsReplying to HarishAbbott0054
Description and location, then. That is small enough to try without making the night shift fill out a form for every slightly unhappy cable. I will see whether we can find an old incident from the list before adding anything else.
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