What's new
Changelog
Every change that makes CrossBeam better for the cities and builders who use it, written up the night it ships.
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Screener red-flags Planning and Building filed together
When Planning and Building are filed for the same work close together, the Building screen now opens its Planning block with a red line, such as "Planning was filed 1.5 hours before Building", and fails the Planning-approval row unless a waiver is requested. Counter-cleared approvals are unaffected.
Screener Fees tab itemizes Laguna Building permit fees
Laguna Beach Building screens get a Fees tab that itemizes every fee by when it is due, shows the valuation and fixture counts read from the packet, and lets staff correct values inline. Totals update live, "Copy for EnerGov" copies the lines, and a missing count shows "Needs count".
Marked-application download shows live progress
In the Planning screener's Applicant Email tab, the marked-application button now shows a spinner with its current step and a seconds counter ("Filling the City form... 14s"). A failure turns the button red with the reason until the next try.
Staff can edit and delete their own screener notes
Each note's author now sees Edit and Delete on their own notes in the Staff notes popover. Edited notes show "edited" with the time on hover, and deleted notes disappear from the popover, the queue's latest-note line and later screening rounds; the original text is kept for audit.
Applicant email keeps item numbers in order
When staff reword a screener email item so it spans two lines, the next item keeps its number instead of restarting at "1.". Continuation lines now stay part of the item above them when edits are merged into a hand-edited email.
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Sharper aerial imagery and reliable site plan detection
The screener's aerial-versus-site-plan check now gets high-resolution aerial imagery on most lots by stepping down resolution until the imagery service answers. It finds the site plan from the sheet's content rather than its title, and shows a capture date only when it is accurate.
Screener City Record tab opens without reloading the page
The first click on the screener's City Record tab no longer drops the whole project page back to a loading skeleton for a few seconds. The tab now shows its own loading placeholder while it loads.
City Record tab added to the screener
Screener records now have a City Record tab between Site & Zoning and Raw Docs, showing the parcel's past permits and archived documents without leaving the screen. It uses the same viewer and access rules as the job site page and appears for cities with a connected archive.
Screener retries filings whose files failed to download
When the City's permitting portal briefly errors on every file of a new filing, CrossBeam now retries the download about every 15 minutes for 24 hours instead of marking it "Didn't finish". Rerun on a filing with no files re-downloads them, and the error message no longer says the upload failed for good.
City Record pulls work again in the screener
City Record lookups that failed since Oct 1 now complete. The Laserfiche portal began redirecting searches back to the same page with new cookies; the client now follows those redirects by hand and keeps every cookie, stopping with a clear error on a loop.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Screener stays connected to Tyler EnerGov
The new-application check against Tyler EnerGov now searches each permit number as an exact match instead of a broad text search, cutting each probe to a single page. That stops the city portal from rate-limiting CrossBeam, so the Screener Inbox and Incomplete Tasks no longer show sign-in errors.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
One fail per City ask on resubmittals
Resubmittal screenings now check only whether each City ask was delivered, across every current file, with one round summary. A delivered item with a defect, such as a missing signature, resolves its ask and shows as a staff note rather than a new applicant fail.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Resubmittals graded against what staff asked for
A screener resubmittal is now graded only against what City staff actually asked for, read from the permit system's communications, review comments and marked-up attachments, and against the whole current application rather than only that round's uploads.
Resubmitted filings return to Incomplete Tasks
When an applicant resubmits a filing staff returned, it now moves back to Incomplete Tasks with its Returned by chip, instead of staying in Completed Tasks where it could be missed.
Filled Sign Permit Application for Laguna Beach sign filings
When a Laguna Beach sign filing arrives on the retired Planning Application or without signatures, staff can return the City's July 2026 Sign Permit Application pre-filled from the submittal, with each signature the applicant owes highlighted.
Monday, September 28, 2026
Friday, September 25, 2026
Laguna Beach reroof filings ask for Planning approval first
When the City record shows no Zone Clearance on file, Laguna Beach residential and commercial reroof screenings now list Planning approval as a missing item in the applicant email, instead of leaving it as a staff-only note that never reached the letter.