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Feature Requests and Issues / Probability report character limit?
« on: May 29, 2014, 08:46:08 AM »
On the Clues tab, which we use for Animals instead, what is the character limit of the Probability description box?  We are using it to keep notes on the status of the animals we either pick up or shelter in place (SIP).  If we SIP, then we use it to track the dates of feeding and watering, so we can set up a schedule to re-visit the site.  If we pick them up, we use it to track their destination, current location, and final disposition.  This is the type of info our PIO is always clamoring for, and it appears to be the best location to keep it in.

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General Mission Manager Discussion / APRS using Android or IPhone
« on: April 16, 2014, 10:48:51 AM »
There are now apps that will let your Android or IPhone report your position into APRS.  Of cours, you need to be a licensed ham to use these as it needs your call sign.  We are just starting to test these, but so far, so good.
The free app for Android devices is here: http://www.crosscountrywireless.net/aprs_messenger_android.html
There is a similar program for iPhones: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openaprs/id360574554?mt=8
It costs $4.

This will work fine as long as we have cell service.



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During our training yesterday, we were trying different options to better tailor MM to our team's needs.  We noticed that, while in a mission, under the General tab we list the Command channels and TAC channels.  When we go to the Team tab, we cannot specify which of those channels are being assigned to a specific team.  When we print the Team Assignment, all of the channels are listed.  How are teams handling this? 

Also, it would be nice if there were a place on the Mission General tab where we could list the cell phone of the ICP, and that was also printed on the assignment sheet.  In our last field drill, we simulated a loss of the 800 MHz radio system.  Teams couldn't figure out why we weren't answering them on the radio and didn't know the phone number of the ICP. 

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I will be attending the Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings course at New Mexico Tech next week.  Anyone else in the group attending or in the area.  Thought it might be fun to get together for a beer and tell tall tales about our search teams using Mission Manager.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Automatic notifications not happening
« on: June 18, 2013, 12:08:20 PM »
For some reason, the monthly time-keeping reminders, 60-day certification reminders, 90-day status updates, and the reminders on some recurring events are not being sent (or at least, not received).  I do get the weekly reminder for radio net night, as well as other messages sent out by MM.  Have I managed to flip some mystery switch somewhere?

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General Mission Manager Discussion / Google Crisis Maps
« on: May 03, 2013, 10:24:33 AM »
I participated in a webinar this week where they presented a Google Maps feature that covers a variety of natural disaster types of events.  I'm not sure if this is something that could be incorporated directly into MM, or if it would be just a good reference for teams.  Here is the link to the site, with the wildfires option selected.  If you zoom in on the fire in Banning, CA it gives the estimated fire perimeter.  There are lots of other options to play with as well.

http://www.google.org/crisismap/2013-us-wildfires

If you move over to the fire in Ventura, not only does it show the fire perimeter, it also shows the evacuation order perimeter and that Pacific Coast Highway (a major evacuation corridor) is still open.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Clue location on team maps
« on: April 24, 2013, 08:09:50 AM »
While setting up our training this last weekend, I had 12 locations that I was going to send teams to.  In utilizing MM for our animal response team, we are using the clues tab in the following manner:
When information arrives to the IC that there are animals in need of assistance, this is entered as a clue.  This page gives us enough room to put in the details of the call - numbers of animals, owner/contact info, who called it in (owner, passerby, our Scouts, Sheriff, etc.), address, potential hazards, etc.  Using the Google map, we can then get the GPS coordinates, or directly enter them if we have that from the field unit.  The Clue icon then shows up on the map that we can see at the IC.  That is great, and allows us to cluster responses for more efficient operations.

The glitch is that when I go to dispatch a team (Scout, Truck with trailer, etc.) and I print a Team map, the Clue icon does not show up and I cannot select it as an "Area" to send a team.  I have to add a new Location icon on the map.   It would be handy if I didn't have to do this extra step.

The other thing I noticed was the scaling on the team map that I print out for them.  It seems that it defaults to always have the CP on the map.  This can cause a substantial loss in resolution.  Sometimes our CP is several miles from the team's destination (more than 10 miles during last year's Ranchita fire).  Is there some way I can zoom the team map in before I print it?

Thanks.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Repeating events overwrite
« on: April 23, 2013, 10:00:04 AM »
For my team, I have set up a repeating monthly training event.  When I put the new information in about an upcoming training, and hit Update, I am asked if I want to update all repeating events.  I always hit No, because the changes only affect that particular training.  Unfortunately, recently an event was changed (not by me) and the update all was hit.  Now, it wouldn't be a big deal if it only updated the future events.  That would be easy to change.  But it overwrote all the previous monthly training info as well.  Would it be possible to change this so that it only updates future events?  Thanks.

Oh, and if you look at our calendar you will see that we alternate between Saturday and Sunday month to month.  It was only the Sunday training events that were changed.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Couple of odd things
« on: April 20, 2013, 12:19:36 PM »
While setting up tomorrow's training mission, I ran across a couple of minor glitches.  Since I am setting up a future event, I wanted to change the event log to the proper date and time for the training.  Changing the date from today to tomorrow was fine, but every time I changed the time I got an error message saying to enter it in 24-hour format ... even if I already had.  I tried it several ways - deleting the original time and typing in the new one, highlighting then over-typing all or just some of the numbers, backspacing to delete some or all of the numbers, etc.  I always got the error message.  If I hit "OK" on the message, I could then save it, even if I hadn't done any further changes.  Not that big a deal, as it should rarely come up.  Just odd.

On the mapping portion, I noticed that if I was in the Google satellite or hybrid and saved locations and clues, if I then went to just topography, the positions changed drastically.

In another thread, you had discussed new icons that could be used.  I see how I can do that on locations, but not on the clues.  Would it be possible to do that?  As for additional icons, there were some good ones under his events heading - "alien abduction", "cow abduction", "zombies".  Are these things individual teams should upload, or do you have to upload them to the main server?

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Has anyone dealt with the following type of situation, and how did you handle it with Mission Manager?:

A small disaster starts in the jurisdiction of one agency.  That agency responds, setting up their IC and operations using MM.  After some period of time, the disaster expands to a much larger area which now involves the jurisdiction of other agencies, or a County-wide agency.  The larger agency now assumes IC and also uses MM for their operations.  However, the initial agency and the larger agency have separate MM accounts.  How does all of the information from the initial agency get transferred into the new agency's MM operation?   

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Currently, when you set a new event on the calendar, or send out a message, the default is to send it to everyone in every unit on your team.  Our team is broken up into several units because our job is to coordinate all animal responders county-wide.  This includes organizations (the members of which I have put in under separate units) that we have minimal interaction with except during a disaster event.  Our management unit consists of 11 people out of over 100.  If we forget to unselect all, then select only our unit, all of those 100+ people get informed of something that they have no involvement with.  Would it be possible to change the default on messages and calendars to no units?  Then, if we forgot to pick the unit, at least we wouldn't be getting 100 WTF e-mails back from people.  :o

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Feature Requests and Issues / Calendar quirks
« on: November 02, 2012, 07:29:10 AM »
I have noticed a couple of odd things happening with the event calendar.  Every Thursday evening, we hold a radio net to practice comms, etc.  When I originally set it up, using the repeat functions it populated the future weekly meetings just fine, until the meeting was on the first day of the month (yesterday).  For some reason, instead of putting the meeting on Nov 1, it shifted it back to Oct 31.  To correct that, I had to delete the previously scheduled meetings and re-do the meeting schedule starting on Nov 1.  If I project it too far into the future and it again winds up on the first of the month, the same thing happens.  The other odd thing that happens is that I set a reminder notification for the morning of the evening meeting, but it is also sending one for the next week.   

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Feature Requests and Issues / Assignments tab in mission
« on: August 27, 2012, 07:30:13 AM »
Would it be possible to add a tab into the missions (like Clues and Subjects) that is for Assignments?  In the last month we have worked two large fires and MM has worked great.  But we find that we usually have numerous assignments (addresses that need to be checked for evacuation of animals) before we even have personnel on scene to create teams.  Usually, our dispatch will receive phone calls from the public requesting assistance.  If there was an Assignment tab, the dispatcher could directly enter that information as it came in.  Then, when we have established our IC/Staging and have personnel available, we could open the assignment tab, find several assignments, and give that to one team.  As it stands, I have to create the team, then create the assignment.  Once they finish the assignment, I have to disband the team, create a new team (usually with the same team members), then give them a new assignment.  This can be challenging when I have two teams that are going door-to-door checking a couple dozen residences each.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Pagination when printing
« on: August 27, 2012, 07:15:16 AM »
When I print the Total Mission Forms Package,  there are no page breaks put in between the forms.  This results in the form pages being split up over consecutive pages.  Am I just missing some printer setting?

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Feature Requests and Issues / Map stops responding in a mission
« on: July 16, 2012, 02:14:47 PM »
I have a mission scenario that I am running to test team tracking using the new SARApp interface.  It worked well for a while (a couple of days), then on Friday afternoon, after I got a second team member on line, the mapping program stopped working in that mission.  All of the previous tracking, areas, locations, etc. have disappeared from the mission map.  If I go to one of my other missions, the map remains interactive and will zoom to the location when double-clicked.  Is there a maximum amount of data that the mapping feature will support?     

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