{"id":954,"date":"2019-10-21T14:48:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=954"},"modified":"2023-08-24T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:35:08","slug":"editing-an-existing-inspection","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/us\/knowledge-base\/editing-an-existing-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing an existing inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editing an existing inspection <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If an inspection has already been compete by an engineer on a job, you will not be able to edit the used inspection template. However, you can clone the existing inspection and edit the information before saving this in to create a new inspection. You can do this by following the below steps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to<strong> Settings | Inspections | Templates <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Select and open the inspection you are wishing to edit<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the bottom of the template page<\/li>\n<li>Click \u2018Clone\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-post wp-image-955\" src=\"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-920x410.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-920x410.png 920w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-768x342.png 768w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-1024x456.png 1024w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-50x22.png 50w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-600x267.png 600w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1-320x143.png 320w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-and-Preview-inspection-1.png 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This will then open a copy of the inspection with a \u2013 1 in the inspection name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1046\" src=\"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1347\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2.png 1347w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2-768x357.png 768w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2-1024x476.png 1024w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2-50x23.png 50w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2-920x428.png 920w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2-600x279.png 600w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-inspection-image-2-320x149.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can then go ahead and edit this inspection<\/li>\n<li>Once you are happy with the inspection you can preview the format by clicking \u2018Preview\u2019 at the bottom of the template page<\/li>\n<li>Save your inspection by clicking the green save button in the bottom right corner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1048\" src=\"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1344\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3.png 1344w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3-768x342.png 768w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3-1024x456.png 1024w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3-50x22.png 50w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3-920x410.png 920w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3-600x267.png 600w, https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Clone-preview-and-save-inspection-image-3-320x143.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1344px) 100vw, 1344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you have saved the new version of the inspection, please ensure to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove the old inspection for any upcoming jobs and replace it with the new version of the inspection. (<em>See more information on help article \u2018Adding an inspection to a job\u2019)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>If the old version is set to be \u2018automatically added to a job type\u2019 \u2013 Remove old inspection and replace this to the new version <em>(see more information on help article \u2018Adding inspections to jobs automatically\u2019)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <\/em>Before you can use this inspection on the mobile app \u2013 ensure engineers have refreshed and done a full setting sync on all mobile devises.  You can do this by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logging in to your mobile application and view your welcome screen<\/li>\n<li>Click \u2018Sync last run\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1839\" src=\"https:\/\/support.servicesight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Editing-an-existing-inspection.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editing an existing inspection If an inspection has already been compete by an engineer on a job, you will not be able to edit the used inspection template. However, you can clone the existing inspection and edit the information before saving this in to create a new inspection. 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