When every required item on an inspection is filled in, the technician marks the submission 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 - The technician's name is stamped onto the record
- 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 now ready to print or email — see the customer-facing version with Printout types
Required fields
Inspection templates can mark fields as required. The Complete action fails if a required field is empty — Pistonlog shows you which ones still need filling.
Re-opening a completed submission
Re-opening is possible (requires inspections.edit) but discouraged once the report has been shared with the customer. The audit trail of changes lives in the activity log.