Is it possible to add questions during an inspection with out going to Template?

Hey ​@johnmuzza1999 - great question. Unfortunately, one cannot add questions directly to the inspection, these need to be added in to the template. As an inspection is meant to represent a point in time, a new inspection would need to be started to reflect the template changes. My suggestion would be to keep the existing inspection that has the work / media in it, and copy it over to the next inspection that has the additional questions in it. I know this is not ideal; however, that’s the best way to go about it in the system at this point in time.

I’ve had to do this frequently while testing a new template or when doing something for the first or second time and realizing the questions I need to ask or breakup of the responses is not ideal for the flow of the audit or task.  It would be an really handy feature to be able to start an inspection with the latest template and choose a pre-existing inspection to pull answers from.  It should be able to at least map up by question ID, so only things that were newly added would be blank.  Anything that was removed from the latest template but was in that inspection could then show up in a list as the things that couldn’t be ported over.  This would have to be an admin-only feature so it’s not abused to cheat inspections.

Thanks ​@Corey - great suggestion!

There is a hack to (partially) get around this:

We do inspections on a standard type of equipment with lots of standard accessories.  The template has items for all of them.  But sometimes there are other things.  Hence the bit in the attachment is towards the bottom of the template to allow for any number of other items.

I made another post a week or two back on an idea of “pseudo-templates” (my name):  You have a main template with a “repeat this section” item.  Then you start a fake inspection and put in all the questions you want and save as a pseudo-template.  Then when you need to do a real inspection, you duplicate the psuedo-template inspection.  So all the standard questions are already there.  But you can edit them.  And you are free to add others.

​@MOB I’m not sure I’m following your example.  What I need is the ability to pull in answers from an inspection into a new inspection using the latest version of the template. 

When I do the second inspection: For anything newly added to the template that was not there when I did the original inspection, they would not have pre-populated answers.  For anything removed from the template that was there when I did the original inspection, they would be output in a list of questions/answers that could not be automatically pulled into the new inspection.

Essentially when building a template or using one for real for the first time, I can pull in all responses from the last inspection and avoid manually copying and pasting each one every time I make a template adjustment.

​@Corey   I was answering John’s original question, not yours.

Your case sounds strange.  Really just editing an earlier inspection?  That seems to have dangers.  You could leave easily leave a response alone that has changed since last time…

But you can always copy an inspection, and the old answers come.  Adding extra questions like a template is not possible.  But by using “repeat this item” in the original template you can add something that allows text to be added, questions with response sets, etc.  Just that the format of this section has to be decided back when the template is designed.  You could even have multiple sections with “repeat this item” so you could have a few choices as to what might suit.  There is no compulsion to use any in any individual inspection.

It is a bit “dangerous” as you mention.  I would not want this available to everyone.  Yes, in a way I’m re-using and/or editing an earlier inspection.  Reusing if testing a new template and I don’t want to fill everything in over and over every time I publish updates to the template to test.  Editing if I am using a template perhaps for the first time in a real scenario and realize it could be improved but want that inspection I just did in the updated copy of the template.