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Status Planned for future release
Workspace IBM MAS - Mobile
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 7, 2023

Ability to repeat previous result on Inspection Form Meter Questions

For inspection form questions that are based on meter points, it'd be great to have the ability for default answers. I.E. if the Options on the meter are Yes, No, NA, have it default to Yes. And then the end user doesn’t have to make a change unless the answer is different vs. having to select each answer? Would make the inspection process utilizing forms more efficient.

Idea priority High
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Admin
    Francisco Coelho
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    Oct 30, 2023

    Hi Stephanie,

    I'm promoting this idea to a development item, however, can't commit a release date right now. Once it goes to development we will notify this idea's owner. Also, I slightly changed the title to fit in the "repeat value" feature.

  • Guest
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    Oct 5, 2023

    Hi Francisco,

    We would be interested in repeat value button, it would allow the inspectors to view the previous data and inspect, as you mentioned. How does this process work, time line for implementation, assuming it's approved on the IBM side?


    Thank you!

  • Admin
    Francisco Coelho
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    Sep 19, 2023

    Hello! Thanks for reaching out to our Ideas Portal!


    Looking at this idea, makes me wonder about the possibility of inspectors bypassing or simply skipping questions without further considerations, by just having an answer placed by default, which could lead to a potentially harmful situation depending on industry type. I'm thinking about a different approach on "predefined answers" - the previous reading, or the previous value for other response types would be displayed in a label component, and the user would press a "Repeat value" button to enter the repeated/default value. This way we make sure the user read properly the question and at least took a look at the current reading before answering the form.


    Would this be an interesting approach to you?

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  • Guest
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    Sep 11, 2023

    I would like to add something, it would be nice to be able to set default answer for all questions. In other words: answer all questions asked positively by pressing a button