IMS Offline - Overview

Updated on 09 Aug 2024
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This online manual explains the IMS Offline Application:

The once-off preparations that are required to use the IMS Offline App.
How to use the IMS Offline App on your mobile device, to capture findings, while doing inspections in the field.

Symbols Guide

IMS	This refers to the standard web-Integrity Management System that you open with the browse on your desktop or laptop. An internet connection is always required to use IMS, since it needs access to the central IMS database.
IMS Offline	This refers to the IMS iOS App that is installed on the mobile device. IMS Offline can work without internet connection, when accessing the local IMS database, but requires an internet connection to upload or download data from the central IMS database.
	This symbol indicates that an internet connection is required.
	This symbol indicates that you can work offline.

Overview

The aim of IMS Offline is to use a mobile device, e.g. iPad, without internet connection, to capture inspection findings during field work.

A few once-off preparation actions are required before you can do this. See Preparing IMS Offline (once-off).

In Recording Inspections Offline the processes of recording an inspection with the IMS Offline App is explained (see the figure below).

The processes of recording an inspection with the IMS Offline App.

The steps are:

Step I: Select offline scope items.

This must be done in IMS. You can either open it with the browser on your laptop, as you would normally do, or you can access IMS via the IMS Offline App.
You must be online in both cases.

Step II: Download the selected data on the mobile device.

Log into the IMS Offline App. The selected data will automatically be downloaded from the central IMS database to the local IMS database on your mobile device.
Your mobile device must be connected to the VPN.

Step III: Record an ECH in the field.

This is done with the IMS Offline App on your mobile device.
An internet connection is not required.

Step IV: Sync data with Central IMS database.

Tell IMS Offline to Finish offline work. The central IMS database, to which IMS connects, will then be updated with the data from the local IMS database, on your mobile device.
Your mobile device must be connected to the VPN.

Take Note

The ECH can only be Approved when you are online.

Only the capturing of the field work findings can happen offline. This is because the local IMS database on the mobile device is used. For the other steps, you must be online, since we need access to the central IMS database, which IMS uses, to download or upload the data.