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NSPIRE Report Settings

Before completing your first NSPIRE report, it is recommended that you review and configure your report settings.

Written by Alet Drijfhout
Updated today

Navigating to the Report Settings

  1. Navigate to Settings

  2. Reports

  3. Select the NSPIRE report from the dropdown.

  4. NSPIRE Configuration

NSPIRE Configuration

The first settings available are specific to the NSPIRE standard and control what information is included in your report output.

  • Health and safety columns
    Enables the health and safety and correction time frame fields to auto-populate when completing the report. This is recommended for most use cases.

  • Home Choice Voucher columns
    Adds HCV severity and HCV correction time frame as a second set of columns. Enable this if your property uses home choice vouchers.

  • Hide items not listed as defects
    When enabled, the report will only show items where a deficiency was identified, rather than listing all NSPIRE standards. This is a useful way to condense the report and focus attention on findings.

  • Auto-flag actions
    Automatically creates an action for each identified deficiency. This produces an exception report that can be assigned to contractors by type, and is recommended if you plan to use Property Inspect for remediation tracking.

Layout

A few options are available to control the visual format of the report output.

Cover page

Choose between a full page cover, cover page only, or no cover. Try each to determine which works best for your workflow.

Orientation

Portrait is the default. If both health and safety and HCV columns are enabled, landscape orientation is recommended to accommodate the additional columns on the output report comfortably.

Actions and liabilities

If auto-flagging of actions is enabled, the following settings control how those actions are presented in the report.

Group actions by
Actions can be grouped together, by responsibility, or by action category.

Grouping together or category is recommended for ease of handoff to contractors.

Placement
Choose whether the actions section appears before or after the full NSPIRE report body. Either is valid, placing them after means the full inspection output is presented first, with the action summary at the end.

Property Inspect enables you to manage these deficiencies across a building or portfolio, for more information about Actions and Deficiencies, view the collection.

Additional Settings

Additional settings are available including declarations and signatures, signature reminders, and other report-level options. Refer to the full report settings resources for more detail.

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