A safety report attached to an audit is closed from the audit itself, not from the safety report editor. The editor has no close function of its own — this is the only place where it happens.

## Closing the report

1. Open the audit in the **Audit & Inspect** module.
2. Find the **safety report tile** in the audit's detail view. It is only there if a safety report is attached.
3. Click the red `Close Report` button and confirm.

While closing, tasks are created from the observations — one per observation whose category is set up to create audit tasks. Observations in categories without that setting close without producing a task. The audit is linked to the report, and the report is set to closed; where office approval is required, it is set to approved on board instead.

Afterwards the tile refreshes and the button disappears.

## When the button is not there

The button only appears when all of the following apply:

* a safety report is attached to the audit,
* the report is **In Progress** or **Approved on Board** — a report that has not been started, or is already closed, does not show it,
* and you hold the necessary permission. Office users always do; users working on board with a vessel licence need the right for closing on board as office crew. There is a matching right for filling out on board. Without them, these buttons stay hidden on board.

## Audit types that require office approval

For audit types where the office has to approve — a master review, for example — the report is always closed by the office. On board, once filling out has started, a green `Approve on Board` button appears instead. It hands the report over to the office; the red `Close Report` button remains office-only in this case.

## When closing is refused

If an observation in the report has **no category assigned**, closing is blocked and a message asks for the category. Assign it and close again.

*[PO]: Purchase Order  
*[AZA]: local folder
*[(PO]: Purchase Order  
*[RQ]: Requisition  
*[(RQ]: Requisition  
*[RfQ]: Request for Quotation  
*[(RfQ]: Request for Quotation  
*[SO]: Service Order  
*[(SO]: Service Order  
*[SQ]: Service Requisition  
*[(SQ]: Service Requisition  
*[SRfQ]: Service Request for Quotation  
*[OoB]: Open on Board  
*[(OoB]: Open on Board 
*[ART]: Average Running Time (operation hours per day) 
*[MC]: Master Contract
*[ADS]: Advantage Database Server (database engine used in previous versions of the ZeeBORN software)
*[.replic]: file extension for replication files (aka data transfer files)