Offline & Mobile Features

EQMS does not currently offer offline data capture, mobile device integration (camera, GPS, barcode scanning), or offline signature/audit-trail sync. If you were looking for a mobile-offline workflow, none of the panels described in an earlier version of this page (Mobile Features, Offline Form Manager, Sync Operations, Offline Audit Trail) are reachable in the running app.

Note

An earlier version of this page described a fully offline PWA workflow. A 2026-08-30 audit (KAN-332) found the underlying code (service worker, IndexedDB sync, mobile/offline API endpoints) was never wired into any page — service-worker registration was disabled in 2025-11 after a stale-cache production incident, and nothing called it again. No user was ever able to reach this workflow. On 2026-09-04 the orphaned code was deleted outright rather than re-scoped (docs/gaps.md, GAP-004) — there is no PWA/offline stack left in the codebase to re-enable.

What works today instead

• Signatures work over a normal online connection from any device with a browser, including mobile browsers — see Signing a request.
• Photo and file attachments (for example on a deviation or complaint) are uploaded through the standard record forms, which work on mobile browsers; there is no dedicated camera-capture or barcode-scanner integration.
• Every action still produces a full audit trail entry through the normal (online) audit trail — see Audit Trail.

There is no local/offline draft mode: if you lose connectivity mid-form, the browser’s native form-recovery behavior is all that protects unsaved input — EQMS does not queue or sync anything client-side.