There is an application with which engineers check equipment. Engineers photograph equipment before and after testing. The application looks something like this:
The user would have to:
In my opinion, this is not very convenient and takes a long time.
Are there any other solutions that will shorten the time it takes to add photos?
It seems like the user will select a particular task that is open, and provide the photos at different times during the process required to close the task. So the complete flow will probably look something like:
This is a linear process but it may not be completed in one single step, depending on if step 3 can be successfully completed. So it is possible to design the flow so that there is only one action button to take the photo, but that means you will have to provide some context for the user so that it is clear that the photo being submitted is a before or after photo (because they may need to resubmit a photo for whatever reason). The simplified flow can look like this:
Maybe allow the user to enter a mode where they can take multiple photos in succession. The first photo could automatically be tagged as 'before', and subsequent photos as 'after'. This is particularly useful if multiple before-and-after sets need to be captured in one session.
Try scanning a multiple pages document with the note app from iPhone to check the flow I'm talking about.
You write "engineers check equipment" and "before and after testing". As noted before, this will typically be a step-by-step description of what to check, or how to test.
If documentation is needed, just put the photo-taking into the sequence as separate steps.
As there is so little information about the business in your question, I'll speculate a little: Why not -
That way, you don't even need the user to explicitly start the "photo-taking" step, but it's integrated into the workflow and triggered by scanning a bar code (or selecting a task from a worklist) and by advancing from the last step.
