PAT Testing application

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I made a PAT testing application which I have installed on my website. Its a first draft. I took information from a course I took recently. Not sure how practical it is. I have tried using it from my mobile and it works well enough for me. Would be interested if there are any inaccuracies or any obvious omissions. And also how practical it is. I will keep it there for my own use, but feel free to make use of it if you find it helpful

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Wow, this form seems very comprehensive and definitely would act as a prompt to attend to pretty much everything. I would be tempted to put correct fuse in it’s own question, and combine the fuse holder questions into one, but these are really stylistic choices, your choices are perfectly cromulent.

I wonder if it would be possible to mark a device as having a moulded plug, and therefore several related questions would be marked automatically as n/a - just to speed entry of the form?

Loads of work must have gone into this, I’m sure others will find it interesting and hopefully useful.

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This looks very thorough….couple of questions:

  • how would a RC keep a record of the PAT having used this tool?
  • we also have some items that are Class 1 Plastic

As Gareth said…you’ve put so much work into this…I’m sure that some folk will find it helpful, and especially those who are quite new to PAT to nudge and remind them of certain things to not forget.

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Thanks for the suggestions. Not sure when I will have time to review and update. But for sure they are noted. As mentioned I made it for my usage, but happy to share. I am not a full time coder, so while I am comfortable to code its not my profession so its time consuming.

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There is a print function. So my thought was you print it and save the file or print it.

Noted about class 1 plastic.

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Automatically filling in the form based on a selection adds a significant amount of complexity, which I am not sure I have the skills or time for. If someone wants to have a go, I can share the coding. I developed it under LAMP, but in this case it only needs a local webserver, as its HTML and css (with a tiny amount of javascript).

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If you are interested in sharing the source code I can have a look, thanks!

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Sure, whats the best way to get the coding to you?
I have never used github (I am not a professional coder, I made a livelihood as a UNIX sys admin, so mainly shell scripting), but willing to have a go to use it.

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This is great, and clearly a lot of work and thought has gone into it. Nothing to add beyond the points raised by others around injection moulded plugs etc - if you ever get around to making further revisions. Overall this makes for an extremely user friendly and helpful tool - we use paper/laminate checklists, I found this to be very intuitive and prompting good pause for thought in comparison. Thanks for sharing!

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Having a go at re-coding your great suggestions. Half way there. Hopefully will have an updated version by tomorrow.

Added plastic class 1, and almost there with adding the moulded plugs and greying out the superfluous options.

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Hi and if you still would appreciate assistance, then you could share the code with me by emailing it over, or by creating a GitHub / GitLab repository.

If you would like to share the source with others then the second option is the way to go, if you don’t want to do it yourself I can do it for you (I’d be clear that the code was written by you!).

Good luck with you ongoing efforts, looking forward to seeing the v2

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Or avoid Microsoft and make it Open Source on Codeberg

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Absolutely! For those who care/are aware GitHub is owned by Microsoft and has its own story, especially recently after a few years of absentee corporate lanndlordship they seem to have taken it ‘into the fold’ a bit more. Completely coincidentally, there have been frequent site wide outages, security incidents and stuffing clippy sorry copilot where no-one wants it! /rant

GitLab Inc. runs a commercial service off the open source GitLab project - which can be self hosted if needed. But I’m pretty sure you can get most of the useful stuff from them for free. I’ve used both them and GitHub quite a bit and I think for ordinary users both are perfectly good.

My preference would be for a funky coop hosting a GitLab instance, but would be a small cost. Happy to throw a few quid towards a pot if that solution appeals to you, Rakesh?

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Haven’t checked out codeberg before, looks very good, thanks for the tip, well worth considering.

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Alternatively, Forgejo. Very easy to set up. There are also Forgejo packages for the main Linux distros.

Forgejo is self-hostable free software for software development, built on top of Git. Codeberg is powered by Forgejo, which is in turn a hard-fork of Gitea.

Comparison of Forgejo and Gitea/Gitlab/Github

Apologies for going off-piste of the PAT topic! App development in the community repair landscape is to be encouraged, I’d love to see more of it and recall having a chat with @neil about a corner of the forums being dedicated to discussion of all things appy.

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There is indeed (this category) - I’ll move this topic into it. Thanks!

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As mentioned before, I have never used GitHub and its news to me that it is owned by Micro$haft, so thanks for enlightening me on that. No idea why I though it was opensource. As a UNIX sys admin I used to use sccs, but that was for my own one person scripts. I guess was the forerunner of things like GitHub.

I have successfully updated the app. Is working on my localhost. Probably wont have time to upload to the server till Monday

Thanks for all your help

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