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Composer in 10 minutes: turning an inspection spreadsheet into a real workflow
Most safety programs live in a shared drive of checklists. Here is the Composer pattern that turns one of those checklists into a scheduled, assignable, scored, geolocated inspection — without code.
QEHS product team · Composer + workflow engineering · March 17, 2026 · 8 min read
The average safety team has somewhere between 20 and 200 inspection forms spread across SharePoint, Google Drive, and printed binders. Migrating them all at once is a dead-end. Migrating the three most-used forms in a Friday afternoon is not.
- Open Composer → New module → Inspection template. Name it after the existing spreadsheet (Forklift Pre-Op, Hot Work Area Sweep, etc.).
- Paste the column headers. Composer suggests field-block types: short text, select, yes/no, number, photo, signature.
- Add a Location block — tree-picker with GPS toggle. This is the single biggest reason adoption spikes.
- Wire the workflow: draft → submitted → reviewed → closed. Add a Guard that requires photo on any "fail" answer.
- Publish to a location set. Assign by role, schedule by cron, and expose on the mobile home screen.