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Customize inspection title formats

Learn how to customize templates' inspection title formats or naming conventions via the web app and the mobile app.

What is an inspection title?

An inspection title is a unique way to identify a report. Over time as you and your team conduct more and more inspections, it can become difficult to differentiate between them when they've been conducted from the same template. To have a unique inspection title, you can create naming conventions for your inspections so that the title of an inspection populates automatically with responses from the title page.

Take note

To use a response in your inspection title format, it must be on the template's title page. The following response types are supported:

Published changes made to templates only apply to new inspections moving forward.

Customize inspection title format

  1. Log in to the web app.

  2. Select Templates from the menu on the left-hand side.

  3. Click the template and select Edit report in the side panel.

  4. Click image below the template title.

  5. In the pop-up window, click the existing question labels to change or remove the existing format item, or click Plus iconitem to add new items. You can add up to eight items in the inspection title format.

  6. Click Save and apply and click Build on the top of the page.

  7. Click Publish on the upper-right of the page to publish the template. If you're not ready to publish the template, you can go back to the templates list and come back when you're ready.

  1. Open the mobile app.

  2. Tap Inspections at the bottom of your screen.

  3. Select Templates tab.

  4. Edit the template:

    • Mobile phones: Tap the template and select Edit iconEdit template from the pop-up options.

    • Tablets: Tap the pen icon on the right-hand side of the template.

  5. Select Report at the top of your screen.

  6. Tap image below the template title. Set an inspection title format via the mobile app.

  7. In the pop-up window, tap the existing question labels to change or remove the existing format item, or tap Plus iconitem to add new items. You can add up to 8 items in the inspection title format.

  8. Tap Save and apply.

  9. Tap Build on the top of your screen.

  10. Tap Publish on the upper-right of your screen to publish the template. If you're not ready to publish the template, you can go back to the templates list and come back when you're ready.

If you want to apply your new inspection title format to existing inspections, please contact our customer support team for assistance.

Limitations

Frequently asked questions

No, it's currently not possible to include your template's title as part of your inspection title format. If you'd like to include your template's title in your inspection title formats, please let us know by submitting your feedback.

Even though you can enable multiple selection for a multiple-choice question that's part of a template's inspection title format, multiple selection isn't fully supported for inspection title formats.

Limitation with multiple-choice questions in the inspection title format.

From the above example, only one of the responses ("Tokyo" or "Sydney") will be used in the inspection title. The order of selecting the responses won't affect the behavior.

Yes, all logic question responses are automatically included in inspection title formats. You can check out how it works by referring to the following example:

Title page's logic question highlighted on the web app.

In this example, if you select the "Company device" response, the logic field triggers the follow-up question asking you to choose which device you've used to conduct the inspection.

Title page's logic question highlighted on the web app.

As you can see from the preview, the logic question's response becomes automatically included in the inspection title format.

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