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Author & Assign Forms for Inspections
This section provides information on how to create forms for inspections and assign it to inspectors.
How to author, schedule and assign forms
Form Authors can create forms with multiple questions for asset inspections and publish them. Once published, the forms can be assigned to technicians depending on their availability.
Author forms and publish
As a form author, you create forms with pages, sections, and questions within sections, and publish them. Mobile application users or technicians use the published forms while conducting inspections to fill data and submit them based on the use case.
Create forms from existing forms

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Preface
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What is the mInspections application
mRounds helps form authors to create forms and helps technicians to inspect an equipment, record asset data, and submit scheduled forms with Form Authors.
Use mInspections to Conduct Inspections
This section provides overview of the mInspections application on how to use mInspections mobile application to conduct inspections and record data
Author & Assign Forms for Inspections
This section provides information on how to create forms for inspections and assign it to inspectors.
- How to log into Web Application
  Open the application using the URL and login with your User ID and Password.
- Overview of the Forms Web Application
  Forms Authoring application’s features are organized under four sections. They are:
- How to author, schedule and assign forms
  Form Authors can create forms with multiple questions for asset inspections and publish them. Once published, the forms can be assigned to technicians depending on their availability.
  - Pointers for creating an effective form
  - Author forms and publish
    As a form author, you create forms with pages, sections, and questions within sections, and publish them. Mobile application users or technicians use the published forms while conducting inspections to fill data and submit them based on the use case.
    - Import Questions from previously created forms
      You can import pages, sections and, questions from previously created forms to add questions quickly.
    - Create forms from existing forms
    - Edit forms and tasks
      As a Form Author, you edit forms to meet the new requirements of asset inspection. As part of editing a form, you can change the name of the form, description, edit and delete pages. You can also edit, drag drop, copy, and delete sections, and questions. The supervisor must re-publish the Inspections plan to the cloud after editing
  - Schedule forms and assign them to technicians
  - Create inspection forms from templates
- How to view Forms status
  Form Authors can closely monitor progress of inspections by viewing the status of scheduled forms.
- How to view forms and form details
  You can view forms list and form details from the Forms tab in the Scheduler section
- How to view issues and actions
  As a Form Author, you can view all the open issues and actions created by the technicians from the mInspections application while having inspections and filling the data, in the Observations dashboard.
- How to create ERP Notification against an asset
  Create Notification for equipment or functional location while doing inspections. The Notification triggers in the backend SAP system with a notification number.
- How to archive, restore, and delete forms
  As a Form Author, you can archive forms when they are no longer required for asset inspection and also restore archived forms and delete forms.
- How to search and filter forms, inspections and templates
  Search and filters are powerful options for finding information quickly, easily, and accurately. They help you to get the information you need with minimal effort.
How to add Master Data
Use the Master Configuration module to add master data. As an admin, you can create master data like plants, assets, locations, units of measurements, and global response set data that can be used to create forms and rounds.
How to onboard Tenants/Super Admins
Use the Tenant Management module to create tenant or super admin roles for onboarded customers/user and provide access to the applications and modules.
How to onboard Users and Assign Roles
Use the User Management module to create roles and so on, create users, and assign relevant roles to the users.

Create forms from existing forms

You can copy details of an existing form and create a new form quickly.

To copy details of an existing form and create a new form:

Click the My Forms section on the right-side pane.

The My Forms screen with the list of draft and published forms is displayed.
Click the More icon > Copy adjacent to the round plan.

A copy of the selected form with draft status is displayed.

Figure 1. Copy Form
Click on the copied form to open it and view the details.
Updated the details as required and publish. For more information, see Author forms and publish.