Pre-Plans: Units

Pre-Plans: Units


Purpose


  1. To demonstrate the role that Pre-Plan Units play in creating an effective Pre-Plan, and how to select, place and modify them.


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What are Units?

  1. Units are items placed in a pre-plan to indicate fire and life safety elements of a building relevant during a response. Examples of Units include fire department connections, Knox boxes, operational sides of a building, hoarder house and elevator locations.

INFO: First Due has a large catalog of available Units. If you do not see a Unit that you would like in your pre-plans, contact your Client Success Manager.



Using Units

  1. There are two ways to add Units:


  1. OPTION 1:

    1. Selecting the Plus Icon  on the right side of the screen:




    1. This will open a drop down menu of available Units.




    1. Select the Unit you wish to place.




    1. Select where you wish to place it on the map.




  1. OPTION 2: Selecting the Plus Icon  from the top left of the screen:

    1. Opens up the top-left Units menu.

    1. Select Add New




    1. Choose the desired Unit Type from the drop down list.




    1. Select   and the Unit will show in the lower left of the map window in Unmapped Items.


    2. Drag the Unit from Unmapped Items to the appropriate place on the map.





NotesTIP: Unmapped Items are a great way to identify "shared" items such as a common FDC or Knox Box for a strip shopping center or garden apartment strip with multiple addresses. Add the unit on the map of one address and then make the unit "unmapped" in the remaining addresses. That way, the map isn't cluttered with multiples of the same icon in the same place and the Units information still shows up in the pre-plan Dashboard.



Creating Units


Depending on permissions, the user can create a custom pre-plan unit when they want to use a different graphic or the desired unit does not exist.

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NOTE: Accessing Pre-Plan Unit Types requires the permission: Pre-Planning > General > Pre-Plan Unit Types - Manage to be active.



    1. Go to Pre-Planning > Pre-Plan Unit Types

    2. Select: 

    3. Input:
      1. A name
      2. Upload a PNG, JPG or GIF file of the graphic you wish to use
      3. If you wish this Unit to display as a Dashboard tile, check Include Alert Tile to Dashboard and select a background color.



      4. The sample of the Dashboard tile displays


      5. Select: 




Hiding and "Favoriting" Units


It is an excellent idea to display only the pre-plan units that your jurisdiction chooses to use. 

To hide and show pre-plan units from the list:
    1. Go to Pre-Planning > Pre-Plan Unit Types

    2. Search for the pre-plan unit you wish to enable or disable and look in the Actions column


      1. If   is displayed in the actions column, the pre-plan unit is enabled, meaning it is able to be seen in the units list and able to be utilized.
      2. If   is displayed, the pre-plan unit is disabled, meaning it is not able to be seen in the units list and unable to be utilized.

     3. To change the status of the Pre-Plan unit from Enabled to Disabled or Disabled to Enabled, simply select the  or 

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NOTE: If a Pre-Plan Unit that has already been used and published is disabled, that Unit will continue to be displayed in the pre-plan, but will no longer show as an option in the Units list.


If there are Pre-Plan Units that are used often across your account, an admin can "Favorite" them to appear at the top of the Units List.

  1. Go to Pre-Planning > Pre-Plan Unit Types

  2. Search for the pre-plan unit you wish to Favorite and look in the Actions column



         3. To Favorite a Pre-Plan unit, select the .  Units with  displayed are part of your accounts Favorites list.


Users will now see the specified Units under the heading of Favorites in the Pre-Plan Units List.






Best Practices


  1. Place the Unit as close to its actual location on the map.


  2. Try to find the most appropriate Unit icon for a particular need, because a quick glance at the map may be the only thing the responder may have time for on the way to an incident.


  3. Selecting the unit icon on the map allows you to:

    1. 1 - Make the icon larger in the web view
    2. 2 - Make the icon smaller in the web view
    3. 3 - Duplicate the Unit
    4. 4 - Delete the Unit




  4. Each Unit has a menu where you can add supporting information, set an expiration, add a photo, add location information and supply other important details. Some of this information will then be available when the user selects the icon on the map and in the Dashboard.

     





  1. There are times when the description of a Unit isn't quite enough.  In that case, add a photograph.  In the case below is a Sprinkler Room inside of a storage unit.
NOTE: Be sure your photograph provides proper context. Don't just take a close up photograph of the item. Step back and show why you are including the image.

"If a picture tells a thousand words, be sure yours doesn't just convey one." - J.A.




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