What are 'Inspection Request' forms?

 

Overview & background

 

Fieldwire offers a "Forms" module for the Business and Premier tiers. Within this module, we do offer pre-made Form templates such as Inspection Request, Daily Report, RFI's, Safety Audit, Time & Material Tag, and Timesheet forms as well as the option to create your own Custom forms on the account. You can also push any custom forms from your project to your account to distribute these across your projects, similarly, you can push any forms from your account to your projects - take a look at this article on account form templates for more information. 

Inspection Requests are designed to ensure quality and safety throughout your project. In the Fieldwire app, you can quickly and conveniently create and fill out an Inspection Form on mobile or web. 

 

What is an Inspection request form?

 

Whether you are in the office or on-site, online or offline, you can use the Fieldwire app to generate an Inspection Request Form. Within the template, you can:

• Populate information about where the inspection takes place, the date and time of the inspection, and the results of the inspection.
• Attach a photo or relevant file. Note: You can upload files up to 200mb or photos up to 50mb. 
• Sign the inspection request, assign the Form to the relevant person, then change the status to Approved, Approved as noted, or Not approved.

Inspection request form

 

Completing an Inspection Request Form

Form attributes

• Inspection Request Number (#) - Fieldwire will automatically generate a Form number that cannot be edited.
• Description - A freeform section that allows you to customize the title of the Inspection Request. For example, if you have an internal naming convention for Inspection Requests, you can include that num in the description.
• Assignee - The person responsible for filling out the Inspection Request at a given time. You have the option to re-assign the Inspection Request to someone you might need input from.
• Status - When creating an Inspection Request, the Status will default to "Draft". Once the area is ready for inspection (and the Inspection References section of the form is complete), the status should be changed to "Ready for inspection". The inspector can then arrive on site and complete the "Inspection Results" section with notes, photos, and attachments. Based on these results, the status can be updated from the dropdown to "Approved", "Approved as noted", or "Not approved" depending on the results. 

Inspection references

• Company - Name of the company needing the inspection.
• Ref. Specs - Open field to put a reference to a specification section. 
• Ref. Drawing - Plan number that is related to the location of the inspection. 
• Ref. Submittal - Open field to reference the specific submittal document being referenced in the inspection.
• Date of inspection / Location of inspection - Mandatory fields that establish when and where the inspection took place.
• Requested by - Drop down menu of people on the project to communicate who needs this inspection done.
• Date requested - Date field to establish when the inspection results need to be completed by. 

Inspection results

• Inspected by - Mandatory drop down menu to choose who completed the inspection.
• Company - Name of the company doing the inspection.
• Date of inspection - Mandatory date field to communicate when the inspection was completed.
• Inspection results - Open field to write out the results. For example, "Passed." 

Attachments

• Photo/File - Option to upload a photo or file of anything related to the inspection.
• 360 Photo - On the Business Plan, you have the option to upload any 360º photos to Fieldwire. 
• Existing Photo -  The "Existing photo" option allows you to attach any photos stored under the “Photos” tab to your Form. 
• Existing file - Option to attach any file that is already uploaded into your project.
• Crop plan - Option to select a plan and crop a section of the plan to be in the report. For example, if the work was done in the bathroom on the first floor, you could crop that section of the plan and put it in the inspection.

Note: If you choose to attach an "Existing photo", that photo will be shown again in the "Photos" tab since it is now associated with the Form.

Note: You can upload files and photos up to 50mb. 

 

Signature

The signature section prompts users to provide an electronic signature on the Web or a free-hand signature on mobile. Fieldwire will automatically include the timestamp of when the form was signed to help ensure accountability. 

On the Web, you, or someone who does not have a Fieldwire Account, can add sign your form: 

The name of the user that is logged in will populate as the first signature option.

Choose 'Sign as someone else' to have a user who does not have a Fieldwire account sign the form.

 

Any signature will be accompanied by a date, time, and device-stamp to show when exactly the form was signed and which individual signed it. The user who is logged into Fieldwire on the device where the Form was accessed will be listed as the device owner: 
 

'Sign as Andrew White'

'Sign as someone else'

Submitting Forms

Once the mandatory fields have been entered and the Inspection Request has been completed, you can submit the form by changing the Status to "Approved", "Not approved", or "Approved as noted". After the form has been submitted, it cannot be edited unless a Project Admin changes the status back to "Draft" or "Ready for Inspection". 

The form creator, assignee, and last editor will receive a notification when the form has been submitted. If you would like to send the completed Inspection Request as a PDF, you can download the form on the web. If you need more information on submitting forms take a look at this article.  

More information

• Refer to this article for information about notifications
• If you’re experiencing error messages due to unsynced or missing information, refer to this article
• If you're interested in learning about Fieldwire's other Form options, check out this article