Release Notes- June 2023

Release Notes- June 2023

STAY UP-TO-DATE! Please check back here often throughout June 2023. We will continually add to this article as we release new features this month.



Major Releases

  1. **NEW** We know users wanted to be able to create dispatch and message alerts as easy and fast as you can use the responder section. This version brings users that. Now they can create alerts with the same information you could create from web.
  2. **NEW**Renewed login experience. If you have already setup an SSO login on your client, there is no need any more to ask for a specific client setting. Just type your user name, and our app will show you the login page for your SSO.
  3. **NEW** We bring you support for offline capabilities on web based features, like Fire Inspection.
  4. We have enhanced the way we show tracking units on the map, resulting in a faster visualization of units tracking information, and more comprehensive data observation. On top, the fact that it actually resolves a reported issue on the tracking module.


NEW LOGIN PAGE

We have updated our login page to give you more.  


Mobile App

  1. iOS Update 5.3.4
    1. Fixed the authentication method to access ArcGis layers, to avoid showing the auth prompt.
    2. Enhanced new fields to hazmats detail information, including the UN Number

  2. Major Release with some NEW features
    1. **NEW** We know users wanted to be able to create dispatch and message alerts as easy and fast as you can use the responder section. This version brings users that. Now they can create alerts with the same information you could create from web.
    2. **NEW**Renewed login experience. If you have already setup an SSO login on your client, there is no need any more to ask for a specific client setting. Just type your user name, and our app will show you the login page for your SSO.
    3. We have enhanced the way we show tracking units on the map, resulting in a faster visualization of units tracking information, and more comprehensive data observation. On top, the fact that it actually resolves a reported issue on the tracking module.
    4. As part of our goal to get more information on the usage, and enhance the troubleshooting, we also included new logs to get other possible GPS errors while being tracked. 

  3. iOS Update 5.3.6
    1. Enhanced tracking information zoom level to be able show more information about apparatus on the field.
    2. Fixed an issue with the camera view to catch bar codes on in assets module

Response Module


Assets Module

  1. Import Wizard for Equipment
    1. There are four (4) steps to import 
      1. Upload
        1. Only we can import CSV files
        2. Users can't continue without CSV file selected
        3. This allows you to go back and correct the steps (if there are changes in the CSV it must be reloaded)





      2. Map Fields
        1. You can now select the name of the CSV to map, this may or may not coincide with the names of the system.  They user can choose the field.  
        2. Duplicates rows will be defined using the "Equipment ID" field
        3. First Due will now show the name of the column concatenated with the column number





      3. Analysis
        1. Import CSV with empty Name/ID fields are show in the error table
        2. When it finds duplicate items, it gives the option to skip or overwrite
        3. If there is no error in the analysis, it does not show the table
        4. First Due will inform you of the number of records that will be imported





      4. Import
        1. Import equipment with general locations that do not exist (Apparatus/Station/Kit), correctly import equipment without location
        2. Import equipment with specific locations that do not exist but their general ones (Compartment/Storage/Pouch), correctly import equipment by creating these locations.
        3. When importing equipment with a Group that does not exist, it correctly creates the Group
        4. Errors can be exported in a CSV.
        5. The archived equipment does not allow updating even if overwrite is selected, it also shows them in an error table in the Import.
        6. When the Import Wizard is closed, if the process has started, a warning is displayed to confirm the action.





  2. New redesign for Mobile UI for Work Orders
    1. First Due has updated the mobile version for the Full Page  Work Order





  3. We expand the Fleet Overview to Include Checks Due Today
    1. For all sections of Checks - Fleet Overview now display not only Overdue Checks, but also Checks Due Today.
    2. They are listed by Name and Date.
    3. Today checklists are shown in Yellow and the Over Due in Red
    4. Each Checklist that is listed is a link that opens in the Inspection, it applies to all Assets Check.
    5. The priority is always to show Today before any other (if it takes time it has priority over a Today without time)
    6. When the checklist coincides in showing in time or date, it is listed by the priority of the alphabetical order by the name of the Checklist
    7. If the checklist has not been started by another user, tooltip: Start Check is shown, if it is already started, it shows the tooltip: Join Check.



  4. Swap Apparatus - Transfer Equipment/Inventory
      1. This feature enables users to swap equipment and inventory from one apparatus to another, primarily for when something breaks and has to be taken out of service.
        1. A new permission was created "Perform Apparatus Swap" is active for all users who have the "Apparatus Update Status" permission active
        2. Start the swap over process, navigate to an Apparatus' Checks View and toggle the "In Service" toggle.
        3. If it does not have Compartments or does have, but without items inside, the Swap App modal is not shown
        4. The inventory have the initials INV and the equipment EQP, allows to be selected with the check.
        5. Swap Apparatus modal is displayed when: archive the apparatus or switching status from Check App, Record App, Fleet Overview
        6. The initial modal allows you to choose between three processes Swap, Relocate or Update Status Only.






      2. Swap: Two Steps
        1. Unit Swapover Modal
          1. The Vehicle Going Out of Service section will be auto-populated by the Apparatus name from the Record the OOS toggle was pressed.
          2. The User will then select the Apparatus they are swapping into in Swapping with section
        2. Transfer Items Modal
          1. From this modal, the user can then select the equipment that they wish to transfer to their new vehicle on the Left side of the modal.
          2. In the panel on the right, Transfer items, the compartments of the destination App are listed, if any, in addition to the Add Compartment button.
          3. To move from the source App to the Destination, you must select in which compartment of the Destination they will be located, at this point the arrow to the right is activated.
          4. Elements already in a destination are allowed to be passed back to their origin, they are selected by the check and the arrow to the left is pressed.
          5. When creating Compartment/Storage it does not allow a Name of a that already exists in this App/Station.
          6. Pressing Continue displays a modal that allows you to Save and Finish or Continue Transferring items.
          7. If the user decides to Save and Finish, the modal is closed and the transfer is done
          8. If the user presses Continue Transferring, the Relocate items to location modal open

      3. Relocate- If a vehicle is being taken Out of Service and items need to be relocated, but NO update to a different apparatus
        1. The user can then select the equipment that they wish to transfer to a new location on the Left side of the modal.
        2. The user then selects which destination they wish to move these items to. These could be an Apparatus - Compartment or Station - Storage combination.
        3. When Inventory items are moved from the original location to the new destination, the following behavior will occur:
          1.  If the inventory is ALREADY in the destination, the Quantity of the destination will INCREASE by the Quantity that was in the original location.
          2. If the inventory is NOT already in the destination, it will be added to the new destination with the same quantity as was moved.
        4. Once the user has completed transferring all of the items, they select the "Continue" button the same behavior of Continue button of Swap option)





      4. Update Status Only
        1. The apparatus status will be updated to an OOS status. No other action is required.
      5. Archived
        1. When a user selects the Archive button for an apparatus, we will display the Confirm Archive modal, as we currently do.
        2. Once the user confirms the Archive process, we will display the Relocate items to Locations modal.

Fire Prevention Module

  1. Field Management – Edit Permissions for a field by User Role
    1. In Field Management, the user can now change the permissions of a field to specific user roles
      1. Permissions:
        1. Hide: The user can't see the field in the form
        2. Read: The user can read but not update the field in the form
        3. Update: The user can read and update the field in the form.  This is the permission by default.





      2. This functionality is not available in the following fields:
        1. billing address
        2. business name
        3. Driver's License Class
        4. Is Inspectable
        5. Notes
        6. Special Directions
        7. Contact Type

      3. New Permission added to enable this functionality
        1. Name: Manage Field Access
        2. Bucket: Pre-Planning





      4. First Due also make changes to the "Edit Field" modal:
        1. We removed the “Hidden” option as it was replaced with the new “Hide” by role. For all the fields marked as hidden, we set the permission for all user roles to"Hide".
        2. If the field is Required -> the permissions for all roles are changed to “Update”, and they cannot change the permissions by User Role.





      5. The “Mass Update” was changed to “Bulk Update – Is Required” and you can bulk update which fields are required.







  2. Field Management – Inspection Zone and Inspection District
    1. First due has added support to edit the fields Inspection Zone and Inspection District to the Field Management. They do not have support to add permissions by user Role yet.

  3. Invoices – Add a Late Fee or a Percentage Fee to the invoice

    The user can now add a Fee to the Invoice:

    - Percentage Fee:  It can be applied to the invoice total or specific line items.  The user enters the percentage number, and First Due will auto-calculate the fee to apply to the invoice.  The Fee Name is, by default "percentage Fee" but the user can change it.  




    - Late Fee:  This can be Flat fee or Percentage Fee,  The Flat Fee has a maximum of $9,999,999.00, the same maximum as the Line Items.  The Percentage Late Fee works the same way as the Flat Fee.  The Fee Name is , by default, "Late Fee" but the user can change it.




    Once the Fees are added, they can be edited as a Line Item.  The Percentage Fees are always calculated based on the "Invoice Total" at the moment of creation of the Fee (saved as the Price)






  4. Inspection Form Builder – For the US Mail Format Tag, the user can choose to show the label or no
    1. In the Inspection Form Builder, for the US Mail Format Tag, the user can now choose, for each tag, if they want to show the label in the inspection report or not.



NMESIS Standard 3.5
  1. For this accomplishment First Due had to do certification process and refactor the 3.4 version to support both versions.  We have released this new version without mayor issues from clients.  Now the feature is meant to be for new clients but in the near future, we can switch a client from 3.4 to 3.5. Those incidents that were started on 3.4 still will be completed using 3.4 standard. This need to be setup trough L2.
EMS Documentation
  1. Release the ability to customize validations rules or workflow and categorized those on Warning, Errors, Default values, Hide a field.  It will allow to move some schematron validation rules to be available while offline and available immediately.





  2. Several views for reporting over the module using the adhoc reporting tool.

Permits Module


Reports Module


Pre-Planning Module


Personnel Module

Incident Documentation Module 

  1. Ability to customize several fields as read only
    1. This will allow the preservation of some data in the way it is coming from CAD.
    2. Under NFIRS setup--> Field Management users will be able to mark some fields as read only even by incident type





    3. When a user starts the incident those fields will be read only, even if they are empty.
    4. First Due also has a permission that can be set to allow certain role/users to edit those sections.
    5. When a user creates an incident from scratch the read only fields will allow edits on the first time.

  2. Bulk insertion and update on station response sections
    1. When adding personnel to Station Response section, you can now add multiples and later time updates for all of them at the same time.  
    2. Select the personnel that you would like to add:





    3. Select those that you would like to update timing





    4. Pick from the list of fields to update






    5. Fill in the information and click final update





  3.  User Account – Add new Inspector Phone Number

    1. A new Field, “Inspector Phone” was added to the User Account page. This field will ONLY be visible to those with the permission "Fire Inspections - Edit" ON (Fire Prevention Bucket).  We’ve also run a migration to copy the phone from the "Personnel Details" and put it in the new account "Inspector Phone" field for those with the permission "Fire Inspections - Edit" ON.

      This phone will only be used for Inspections, Permits, and Invoice reports.




  4. Inspection – Add Standard Remarks to the Codes that will be available during the Inspection.

    1. Users can now add Standard Remarks to the Inspection Codes using the Code Organizer (Inspections > Code Organizer > Crate or Edit a code). They can add one or more remarks, and they are plain text.  From the Code Organizer List, they also will be able to see which codes have standard remarks added and filter by those that have (or don’t have) standard remarks.





    2. The user can then use these standard remarks when running an inspection.  When completing the checklist, if the checklist item has an associated code with standard remarks, a button “Standard Remarks” will show.






    3. This will open a modal with all the Standard Remarks for the associated codes of the checklist item, and you can then add it to the remarks. This will add them as plain text directly to the Remark text area.





  5. CC and HH contacts - available to import them to the inspection and the occupancy

    1. The user can now import CC and HH contact while running an inspection or editing the occupancy record if the place has a CC or HH user.  The CC user will be added as an occupancy contact and can be edited as one, adding all the information needed.





      Only the Community Connect contacts are added.  We are not showing the CC users with all the “My Info”; this will be added in step 2.


  6. Inspection – Allow the user to modify the time log after completion

    1. After completing the inspection, the user can now add/edit/remove the “Manually Entered Events” for the time log.





    2. A new permission to be able to do this was added:
      1. Permission Bucket: Fire Prevention
      2. New Permission: Time Log- Edit Time After Complete Inspection





  7. Fee Schedule – New Filter for Automate Invoice and Fee Type

    1. In the Fee Schedule list, we added:
      1. Automate Filter (YES, NO)
      2. Fee Type Filter (Flat, Formula)
      3. Is Automated column (YES, NO)




Fire Investigations Module


Training Module



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