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Certifications and gauges

Your certification number and your gauge’s calibration print on every report, and their dates decide whether a test can be filed.

What prints

Settings, Profile — name as printed, typed signature, test category and default method of testing.
Settings, Profile — name as printed, typed signature, test category and default method of testing. Shown on a phone.
Everything on this screen ends up on a utility’s form, which is why it is the first thing onboarding asks for.
Name as printed
Exactly as it should read on the form. Not a username — the name a utility will match against its tester list.
Typed signature
Psid types what you put here and nothing else. There is no drawn signature and no image upload. If this is empty, Complete test stays disabled — Psid will not sign for you.
Test category
General, Limited or Inspector. It marks the matching box on the Greenville form.
Company name and phone
From Settings → Organization. The name prints on the Company line; the phone is optional, and its absence only means that line prints shorter.

Adding a certification

  1. Open Settings → Certifications.

    Settings, Certifications — the certifications on file with their expiry dates, above a form for adding another.
    Settings, Certifications — the certifications on file with their expiry dates, above a form for adding another. Shown on a phone.
    More than one is normal. A tester certified in two states keeps both here.

  2. Enter the Certifying body, the Certification number, the state and the dates.

    The number prints in the Certification Number box on the report.

  3. Press Save certification.

Adding a gauge

  1. Open Settings → Gauges.

    Settings, Gauges — the gauges on file with their calibration dates, above a form for adding another.
    Settings, Gauges — the gauges on file with their calibration dates, above a form for adding another. Shown on a phone.
    Make, model and serial identify the kit on the form; the calibration dates decide whether it can be filed with.

  2. Enter the Make, Model and Serial, then Calibrated on and Calibration due.

  3. Tick Make this the default gauge if it is the one you carry.

    The default is preselected on every test, so the visit panel is already right on a normal day.

How the dates are enforced

At test time — a warning
An expired certification or an out-of-calibration gauge shows a banner on the readings screen. It never stops you entering readings. You are standing at the assembly; the record of what you measured is worth having either way.
At filing time — a block
The queue will not produce a filing against an expired credential. An owner or the office can record an override, which asks for a reason and writes who did it and when to the audit log.
Judged against the test date
Validity is always measured against the day the test happened, never today. Renewing a certification next week does not make last week’s test valid, and Psid will not pretend it does.
No grace period
A date that has passed has passed. Psid adds no days of its own to anyone’s expiry.

Psid does not remind you that a certification or a calibration is expiring. It shows you the date where the date matters — on the test and in the queue — and that is all it does.

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