Delete an inspection report
Delete removes an inspection report from the places where reports and their generated PDFs normally appear. Open the report in the web app, select Delete, type DELETE, and confirm. Essential returns you to the Inspection Reports list.
Draft deletion requires inspection-report write access. Deleting a submitted report requires the separate Delete Submitted Inspection Report permission, which an administrator can grant from Settings -> Team -> Roles & Permissions. Built-in default roles can't be edited directly — duplicate one to get an editable custom role, then grant the permission there. Mobile users can delete only their own synced drafts; submitted reports cannot be deleted from mobile.
Deleting a submitted report hides the report; it does not make the submission's work disappear. Service completions, recurring-service history, deficiencies and their resolution state, the follow-up task, job files, sent-email records, timeline events, and compliance filings remain as recorded. The deletion itself is recorded on the timelines of the report's job and property, so the action stays visible after the report is gone. A report-generated deficiency task keeps its report reference and labels it Deleted, but the hidden report cannot be opened from that reference.
If the report has filing activity in The Compliance Engine, the confirmation warns you that deleting the report will not remove or change those filings.
Use submitted deletion when the report itself should no longer be available. If the recorded service history, deficiency state, or compliance filing is wrong, correct that record separately instead of expecting report deletion to reverse it.
Where to find it: Open an inspection report in the web app -> Delete. For submitted reports, the role also needs Settings -> Team -> Roles & Permissions -> (a custom role) -> Delete Submitted Inspection Report.
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