Overview
The Daily Logs report template is used to review daily site activity across multiple construction projects. It includes entries such as date, project, weather conditions, labor hours, equipment usage, and notes from the field. This report helps project teams track progress, identify trends or issues, and maintain a complete record of daily project operations.
Who uses this feature
Administrators, office employees, managers, accountants, bookkeepers, technicians, dispatchers, and customer service representatives (CSRs)
Primarily benefits Residential Service, Residential Construction, Commercial Service, and Commercial Construction business types, Applies to all business types
Feature configuration
Account configuration is required to use this feature. Please contact Technical Support for details.
This feature is currently in Private Preview/Limited Release and is subject to change.
The ability to create custom reports depends on the ServiceTitan package your company is subscribed to. If you don’t have the option to create a custom report, it may not be included in your package. Contact Technical Support for details.
Things to know
If you’re unsure which columns you want to include in your report, use the Reporting Dictionary to search for appropriate data fields.
You can use this template to create as many custom reports as you need. Each report created from the template is independent and can be run or scheduled without needing to recreate it from the original template.
Top Report Use Cases and Best Practices
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Project Manager | Review Daily Activity and Issues on active jobs to quickly understand what happened on each project for a given day. | Use the report to review field activity and issues for a specific day across all of your active projects:
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Project Manager | Follow Up on Logs with Safety Incidents or Critical Issues to ensure every safety event or major issue has a clear owner and next step. | Filter the report to highlight daily logs that captured safety incidents or other issues that need action:
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Project Manager | Ensure Daily Logs are submitted, signed, and approved promptly to reinforce documentation discipline so field activity is properly recorded each day. | Use the report to identify Daily Logs that are missing key steps in the workflow:
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Construction Executive | Measure Daily Log Usage and Compliance across Product Managers and Business Units to understand which teams consistently document work and which need support. | Analyze Daily Log activity over a defined period to see how consistently teams are documenting field work:
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Construction Executive | Identify Projects with persistent issues or low project health to spot jobs that may need executive attention based on patterns in their Daily Logs. | Use the content of Daily Logs to find projects with recurring issues or low project health scores:
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Construction Executive | Understand labor intensity and staffing patterns across the portfolio and use Daily Log data to inform staffing and planning decisions. | Leverage Daily Logs to understand how labor is distributed across projects and over time:
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Create a Project Operations: Daily Log report
Follow the steps to create a custom report based on the Project Operations: Daily Logs template and select the columns to include in your report. You only need to create the report once. After it’s created, you can share it with others who may need to access the information in the report, edit report columns, and more.
Report data fields
The template has the following columns selected by default:
Daily Log Status: Submission status of the Daily Log. Options include: Draft, Approved.
Daily Log Work Date: Date of the work captured in the Daily Log; this is not the date the Daily Log was created or submitted.
Daily Log Submitted Date: Date that the Daily Report was initially saved in the field.
Daily Log Project Health: Indicates the Project Health score, as of the Daily Log submitted date. Options include: On Track, Off Track, At Risk.
1-Day Field Headcount: Number of field headcount who worked on the Work Date.
1-Day Hours Logged: Number of total labor hours logged on the Work Date.
1-Day Hours Logged: Actual hours logged on the Work Date, divided by the total labor budget.
1-Day Issues Identified: Indicates if issues were identified within the Daily Log.
Project Name: Name of the project.
Project Manager: Name of the project manager assigned to the project.
For detailed descriptions of the data fields, please refer to the Reporting Dictionary.
Report Filters
Describe the filters used in the report. Note if any are required to set before running the report.
Project Status: Use this filter to include only projects with specific statuses. Options include: Bid, Canceled, Completed, Hold, In Progress, Pending Scheduling, and Scheduled. You can select one or multiple options to narrow the report results based on the stage of the project lifecycle.
Tip: As a best practice, we recommend using the Project Status filter to limit results.
Project Manager: Use this filter to include only projects managed by specific project managers. You can select one or multiple project managers to focus on work assigned to certain individuals or teams.
Work Date From - Work Date To: Use this filter to include only daily logs with a start date on or after the date you specify. This helps focus the report on daily logs that began within a specific timeframe, such as the start of a fiscal period or a new operational cycle.
Current Project Health: Use this filter to include only daily logs with a specific current health status. Options include: None, On Track, At Risk, and Off Track. You can select one or multiple options to track performance across various project conditions.
Daily Log Status: Use this filter to include only daily logs with specific statuses. Options include: Draft, Submitted, and Approved. You can select one or multiple options to narrow the report results based on the stage of the daily log.
When you’re finished setting filters, click Run Report.
Click Edit Columns to add and remove columns from the report. For further customization, you can also arrange report columns and apply filters to columns.
You can also hover over the name of the column to see a short description.