When every item on an inspection is filled in, the technician clicks Mark Complete. Until that happens, the submission has status in_progress. Marking it complete moves it to completed and triggers a few small things:
What happens at complete
- Status changes to
completedwith acompletedAttimestamp, and the completion is logged to the jobcard's activity feed - The submission keeps its assigned technician (set to whoever started it, changeable at any time from the assignee picker on the inspection card)
- The submission becomes part of the vehicle's inspection history, visible from the Inspector Panel Vehicle tab on the next visit (and any visit within the 13-month window)
- The submission is ready to hand over: Print and Export (PDF) buttons sit on the inspection card
Required fields
Inspection templates can mark fields as required, which flags them with an asterisk on the form. Marking complete doesn't currently block on empty required fields, so give the sheet a final scan before you complete it.
Completing doesn't lock the form
Marking complete changes the status, not the editability. Anyone with inspections.edit can still change statuses, edit notes, and add photos on a completed submission, and those edits save the same way they did before.
Reopen simply puts the status back to in_progress. It isn't unlocking anything, so you don't need to reopen a submission before correcting it. Reopen when the inspection genuinely isn't finished, so the card reads honestly for the rest of the team.
Amend a shared report deliberately
Because completed submissions stay editable, a report you've already printed or sent can be changed afterwards without warning. Treat any edit after hand-over as a deliberate amendment and tell the customer. Changes are recorded in the activity log.