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We will continually add to this article as we release new features this month.

Fire Prevention/ Preplan/ Hydrants/ Invoice

1. Enhanced the list of contact types on preplanning/occupancy area.  Now users will have more choices.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Occupancy class is available now for all clients on Occupancy Tab
   
   
   
   
3. Hydrants Option to pass ALL Pass or Fail questions type ON hydrant checklist setup. Will be true by default for all existing hydrant checklist
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

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    this action cannot be undone.  User will have to manually go back and undo each question.

   
   

   
   
4. On Invoice are a user can add multiples attachments to one invoice or to several invoices in one action
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

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Incident Reporting

1. Payroll Summary
   
1. We have included a new section in Response for "Payroll Summary".
   
2. To activate this section there is a new setting in NFIRS Setup: "Enable Payroll Summary grid".
   
3. Each user will have their own line created. If there are 10 staff listed on the report, there will be 10 lines in the Payroll Summary section. Staff are going to be pulled into this grid from two separate areas. 1st Area being the Department Apparatus grid, the second is the Station Response Grid.
   
4. There is also an option to add users individually, and an UPDATE button for bulk adjusting any field within that grid.
   
5. The "Activity Type" pick list is going to pull from "Activity Type" under the Events.
   
6. Users can be deleted from the Payroll summary Report at any time. This will not affect the Department Apparatus or the Station Response grids, but when a user is deleted from the either the Station Response OR the Department Apparatus, they will be removed from the Payroll Summary.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Redo UI for Incident list to fit with new list style
   
1. As part of this task, several optimizations were made to the list to improve performance.
   
   
   
   
3. Setting to custom questions required
   
   
1. Within the Custom questions form, the "Required" option is included.
   
   
   
   
4. Included a Save action when Complete.
   

Mobile App Update (iOS 5.2.1) (Android 6.2.8)

1. There are app updates available for both platforms with the following change log:
   
   
1. Now you can see the units available on the field, grouped by agencies on the unit list view!
   
2. This will be useful when having county data sharing, and an agency shares units with other partners.

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Fire Inspection

1. First Due released a refactor of the fire inspection form to be more friendly use
   
1. Here are a few examples of the new features
   
   
   
   
2. Similar on the iPad and other devices the design help to have better UI/UX experience.
   
   
   

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Assets

1. Idle work order notification: In the Setup/Notification, a new notification was created that allows you to receive a daily notification by email of the WOs with more than x number of inactive days.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Add an "ETA" field in Work Orders to Indicate when a work order will move to next step in the board, this is a not require date file and that was included on the Ad-hoc Report.
   
   
   
   
3. Display the Current Location/Assigned to for Equipment and Kit in WO.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Relocate multiple users’ info to header of the inspection.
   
   
   
   

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Scheduling

1. Multiple Groups per Assignment
   
1. With this new feature you are able to have more than one group requirement per assignment. Example: Station 1 needs 1 EMT and 1 Scuba employee, regardless of their position.
   
2. A new section “Shared Groups Required" below "Positions Required" was added in Setup -> Assignments -> Edit Assignment.
   
   
   
   
3. The displayed warning sign tooltip to displays all non-met requirements:

   
   

   
   
   
   
2. Call shift ranking filters (per groups)
   
1. Admins are able to filter down the Call Shift ranking lists per groups. The groups filter is only shown if a qualifier is selected.  If one or more groups are selected, is filtering down the currently visible list across all the qualifiers to only those people who are in one of the groups selected (OR logic).  When a group filter is active, is not allowed the manual reordering (in the case of the Rolodex method), and it is allowing to changing the users' hours with the pencil icon (if hours-based method)
   
   
   
   
3. Call Shift User History
   
1. Admins are allowed to view all call shifts that a certain user is / was a part of.  By clicking on a user's name, a modal window appears with the historical call shift data for the selected qualifier.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Off Roster: Allow Unlimited "Duration" hours
   
1. It was removed the '24' hours maximum off roster validation.  Now the user can set up to 999.99 hours of off roster and these are adjusted to the period involved.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Ad Hoc Report
   
1. A new data source has been added (All Scheduling Data) where all the schedule components can be captured: time worked, time off, trades, off roster, holdover.
   
   
   
   
2. Some departments want to put the date and time(s) of work shifts/time off/trades in separate columns, they are now able to do so.
   
   
   
   

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Ad Hoc Report Module

1. First Due has released on PROD the ability to scheduled a report to be sent by email accordingly to an schedule the client specify.
   
2. On the setup page we have a new tab called Report Schedule and user can specify multiples schedules for a single report and also multiples emails to be sent.
   
   
   
   
3.  So the user will receive an email, and the Subject of the email will be the report name, the CSV will be attached and the URI to access directly if the user has the permission will be provided as well. 
   
4. We have multiple schedule options most of them similar that Microsoft Outlook provided.
   
5. We check reports pending to send every second and we take into account the time zone for the client.
   

   

   NOTE:  If a report is scheduled to be sent at 0900 and a user dis that setup at 1100, they need to wait until the day after the scheduled starts.  Those reports that filter by login user are not sent by email because at the moment we have no login user on the backend.  
   

   
   

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Mobile App (Android) Update 6.2.7

1. There is an Android update available with a fix for a bug that was causing the app to close sometimes, when trying to read from a local db.
   
2. Support has already alerted CS with a specific list of clients which were identified as affected, but all Android users should move to latest version (6.2.7) since there is a high chance they will experience a crash as well at some point if they keep using 6.2.4.

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Occupancy Data

1. First Due has added External Occupancy ID to the occupancy record to show the External occupancy Id we receive from the client

   This field is not editable. It is taken from a table we use to import occupancies into the system
   
1. It will be available for all clients.
   
2. It is also available on the ad hoc area and the user can use to filter on Preplan organizer and on Inspection organizer
   

      

   

   Filters and show column
      
      

Note: This field will show empty for most clients

EMS Documentation

1. User interface to do if/then logic to show/hide fields.
   

   A new section was included in the EMS setup called Workflows.  From this new section rules can be added to hide optional NEMSIS fields. Only one record can be created for each field to hide, but it can contain multiple conditions.
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   By default, the list shows the rules of this type that we had previously hardcoded, and now they were incorporated into this feature.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Ability to delete EMS calls
   

   We added a feature similar to the one we have for IR to delete / recover records.  Only records that are in In progress status can be deleted.
   When they are deleted, they go to the Deleted EMS Reports list, where the remaining time is shown for them to be permanently deleted, and also shows the option to recover them.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   After a report is recovered, it is shown again in the list and the Delete log option appears in the actions, which contains the history of deletion/recovery of the record.
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   In the EMS setup, in the General tab can be configure the time to delete the records permanently. By default 30 days.
   
   

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Mobile App (Android) Update 6.2.4

1. Enhanced dispatch information timing.
   
1. We included an enhancement too receive the dispatch information, regardless if you are are looking at the dispatch list or not, and regardless if a notification was sent or not.  This works while the app is opened.
   
2. Corrected Knowledge base information view.
   
   
   

Hydrants

1. First Due has modified the Hydrant list to new list style and also add Saved view to his area. 
   
2. Now we have Saved Views on :
   
1. Fire Investigation
   
2. Inspections
   
3. Hydrants
   

Every one of them has an independent set of permissions to handle the saved views.

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Preplan Annotations Coloring

1. We release a new enhancement on preplan edit area, under annotation tab the ability to pick a color from the list instead of remind the hexadecimal combination of letters.
   
   
   
2. So clients can add, relabel colors and putting some names more comprehensive for the annotations they are doing, ensuring the rest of the users just need to select from the list of colors.  The list will be visible by all the users within the client but the ability to add. edit, delete was granted by default to just those roles that already have the ability to create preplan custom unit types.  However admin users can remove or add those permission separately.

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Mobile App (iOS) Update 5.2.0

1.  Added ability to select whom to assign and to select a fire station while scheduling a re-inspection.
   

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EMS Documentation

1.  Vendor Directory View Changes
   
   
1. On vendor List, we introduced Favorites, using a "star" icon. more than one "Star" can be selected, when the Star is selected, it will turn yellow.  All Yellow Stared lines are moved to the top of the list in alphabetical order by Vendor/Facility Name. This order is the same that will be shown in the reports for the fields where the facilities are shown.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Setting to populate activity times.
   
   
1. We created a setting under EMS>Setup>General (also a new tab).  In that new tab we added a Header called "Default Time Setup" that contains the option to select how to populate activity times:
   - Arrived at Patient Side Date/Time - This setting will populate the Treatments, Medications, Vitals and Assessments with the exact same time as the documented time for Arrived Patient Date/Time.
   - Current Time - This will be based off the Computer date/time.
   - Unit Notified by Dispatch Date/Time: This setting will populate the Treatments, Medications, and Vitals with the exact same time as the documented time for Unit Notified by Dispatch Date/Time.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Ability to add/inactive values in Custom created elements
   
   
1. For the custom elements that are dropdown lists, we already have the option of deactivating values when they have already been used in the reports, or adding new ones. Values that are turned off will still show up in completed reports where they have been selected, they just won't appear available in new reports.
   
   
   
   
4. Generate unique names for export files
   
   
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   We changed the way in which the XMLs generated when completing the reports are named. Now the name will have the following format: IncidentNumberCurrentDate/Time
   
   Example: BD20222110505101220221415536.xml
   BD20222110505 = Incident Number
   10122022 is the MM/DD/YYYY
   145536 = HH:MM:SS
   
   
5. Other Enhancements:
   
1. Generate logs for Kno2 requests.
   
2. XML generation optimizations.
   
3. Custom Results not generating when documented.
   
4. Fix bug saving Treatments/Medications in the EMS setup.
   
5. Fix bug with Medications name not displaying correctly.
   
6. Fix bug printing attachments.