How to create an inspection form

FastField offers user-friendly solutions to transform your paper inspection forms into fully digital and rapidly deployable forms for smartphones, tablets, and computers. Not to worry, there is no complex coding needed to develop and dispatch digital inspection forms utilizing an iOS or Android application.

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If you already have pre-designed inspection forms, you can use your paper forms to create digital forms with the FastField Legacy Form Builder. You can mimic your original form from the Legacy Form Builder and make a digital copy of your paper inspection forms by selecting and adding unique input fields. In addition, you may often find that you can modify and improve your current form with some of the skip logic, workflow, and streamlined tools FastField offers. If you are having any difficulty, create a support ticket. 

Download sample forms

You can start building your form from scratch, or you can download one of our sample inspection forms as a frame of reference.

• Site Safety Evaluation

• General Inspection Checklist

• Residential Inspection Form

• Inspection Checklist

• Property Inventory

There are also administrative forms, vehicle forms, and surveys to choose from. If there is an alternative type of sample form you are looking for, you can access them by following the directions here.

Use the no-code form building tool

You can start by collecting basic information such as the name of the inspection site and location. In this example, the GPS/Location, static text, and single-line text fields collect data. 

(In the Legacy Form Builder)

Suppose you have a situation where you have a set of sites you inspect regularly. In that case, you can use lookup lists and option lists to select from a saved data set of worksites to reduce error and make sorting forms easier in analytics. 

This example has created a repeating series of three basic field types with some additional rules and modifications. The Yes/No/NA, Multi-Photo, and Long Text fields are used to identify, describe, and record onsite safety issues.

(In the Legacy Form Builder)

Use skip logic and rules 

The Yes/No/NA field is added with two conditions. This form contains rules that will prompt the user for additional information/photos when inspection failures occur. The shield icon with the checkmark indicates that the field must be filled out to complete the form. You can toggle this feature on to ensure that all pertinent data is input before finalizing the report. The chess piece icon indicates that rules are modifying this field. You can conditionally show fields or sections in forms to streamline data collection and to prompt actions based on predetermined conditions to ensure your technician has completed the inspection is a necessary step for quality control.  

A simple way to finalize an inspection is to certify the job is complete with an acknowledgment field and collect an inspector's electronic signature.

(In the Legacy Form Builder)

Send reports

Once an inspection is complete, there are a variety of endpoints for your inspection data. Delivery options such as forwarding, emailing, third-party integrations, and more delivery options.