PSC inspections get their own page, and every deficiency gets one too

Since the closure scope and the photos on every deficiency went in, a filled-in deficiency takes a screen of its own. An inspection with eleven of them no longer fitted the side panel it opened in: to reach line 9 you scrolled past eight open ones. Superintendents told us the deficiencies have become the main part of the work, so they now get the room.

The inspection page. A row in the PSC inspections register opens the inspection on a page of its own, with an address you can bookmark. At the top is the deficiency list, one row per deficiency: its number, OPEN or CLOSED, the code and the start of the PSC observation. Every row starts folded, so eleven deficiencies read as eleven lines. Click a row to unfold a preview of it in place (observation, action codes, the repair, how much evidence is in) and click again to fold it. Expand all opens the lot. The arrows on a row move it up or down, for when Form B lists the items in a different order from the one you typed them in. Under the list are the inspection's own fields, its files, comments and history.

A page for each deficiency. Open on a row leads to that deficiency alone. It has everything the panel used to show for it: the evidence checklist you tick as documents come in, the photos and documents, Close, and → Condition. Edit changes this one deficiency and nothing else. Prev and Next step through the inspection. Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on a Mac) opens it in a new tab, so you can keep the deficiency on one screen and the class's e-mail or the scanned Form B on the other. The address doesn't change when the list is reordered, so a link sent to a colleague keeps pointing at the same item.

Two windows, no lost work. Each deficiency is saved on its own. If someone saved the same deficiency after you opened it, your save is refused with a note to reload, instead of quietly overwriting their changes. Two people working on different deficiencies of one inspection don't get in each other's way.

New inspections. Add inspection opens a page with the inspection's fields. After Create you land on its page and add the deficiencies from Form B one by one with Add deficiency.

Links from the bell, the vessel card and older e-mails lead to the new pages. Questions and suggestions are welcome at [email protected].