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Feature Requests and Issues / Field Qualification Reports

« on: October 15, 2012, 03:45:17 PM »

Can you add a field to the certification status report that shows "Field Qualified" or "Not Field Qualified"?  I think it would help my team keep track of new team members who need to get the non-expiring items done like NIMS and pack checks.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Re: Filtered Member Printouts

« on: October 12, 2012, 02:49:37 PM »

I can trigger them manually.  At least one other person on the team got the manually triggered one, but no one is getting them periodically.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Re: Filtered Member Printouts

« on: October 12, 2012, 08:45:53 AM »

On a semi-related note, I've also noticed that we don't get certification status emails any longer.  I just changed checked the configuration page and everything seems in order.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Re: Filtered Member Printouts

« on: October 12, 2012, 08:10:39 AM »

It's on SDMRT.  The units that have the problem are New Member, Rescue Member, and Operation Leader.  If I select All, Trainee, or Support it works properly.  The other units are not currently used. I just tested it on another computer and got the same result.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Filtered Member Printouts

« on: October 12, 2012, 07:19:56 AM »

I may have found a little problem.  When I try to print from the member screen (roster, cert status...) if I have a unit selected as a filter, I get a blank page with nothing but a header.  If I turn off the filter, everything works normally.

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General Mission Manager Discussion / Multiple Accounts and Emails

« on: October 10, 2012, 10:05:04 AM »

Because of how SAR is organized in my county, people on my team have ended up with two Mission Manager accounts for two different teams.  We've found that you can use the same email address for two different accounts if your passwords are different.  I'm wondering if it's a bad idea to do this in practice.  I can envision problems with password resets and messaging, but don't quite know all the implications.  Anyone have thoughts? 
One solution is to simply use different email addresses, which several people do.  I'm wondering if I should make this a mandatory policy or if I should let the free-for-all continue.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Advanced Import

« on: October 10, 2012, 09:31:10 AM »

I've got two ideas to improve the advanced import feature.  Here they are:

• An option to search the top row in the .csv for headers, and auto fill them to the column
• Alphabetize the options in the drop down menus for when the auto complete doesn't get it right

The report after importing is also a little confusing, but I'm not sure how to improve it.  I just imported 1 test member (an update of an existing member, actually) and it said something along the lines of "Finished importing 106 members".  I checked and only the one came in, so it worked how I expected, but the 106 members thing made me a little nervous.

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Announcements / Applied Math for Search & Rescue

« on: October 09, 2012, 09:46:19 PM »

For anyone who's interested, I recently started a new website called SAR Math to discuss applied mathematics as it relates to Search and Rescue.  Right now it's mostly explanations of subjects, but there are a few handy dandy calculators for SAR applications.  More tools are on the way.
If you are interested, have a look.  If you have an idea for a topic or would like to contribute, let me know.  Right now, some parts that may be interesting to Mission Manager users are:

• Consensus Methods & the Mattson (Caught up to the early 2000's as of now. State of the art methods on the way)
• Basic probability and how it relates to SAR
• Technical rescue topics
• Segmenting maps
• The bicycle wheel model

There's lots more to come, and feel free to make requests. http://sarmath.com/

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General Mission Manager Discussion / Re: using forward Prefix

« on: October 09, 2012, 09:17:33 PM »

The same thing works for most cell phones.  Just send a text message to the 3 email addresses with commas in between.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Feedback from SAREX 2012 Class

« on: September 09, 2012, 09:45:22 AM »

First off, thanks to Mike for all the great support and thanks to everyone who put SAREX together and attended the Mission Manager class.  A few questions have come up this weekend which have given me some ideas for new features.  Some are certainly easier to implement than others, but I figured it would be good to put my thoughts down in the forum for others to chime in on.

• Obtaining a terrain profile along a path would be a nice feature to have for some users.  Obviously this one could be tough from a programming standpoint, but for communications planning and moving ground resources, it can be a useful tool.
• Once a marker is placed, the only way to move it is with drag and drop.  It would be handy sometimes to be able to move a marker by entering new coordinates.
• Saved view sets would be awesome.  I'm thinking of just saving which map elements are checked and which are not with an associated name.  I don't know of a clean way of adding this to the map page layout, but I have a few ideas if it's a feasible idea.  This would be a way to hang onto things like Plans and Ops maps, or Division A and B, or un-clutter different operational periods.
• I saw another mapping program that has a feature allowing a path (or track) to be split at a selected location.  This looked handy for the field team GPS download that includes the assignment along with their last trip to Disney Land and the backpacking trip they went on last year.  After splitting the track, you can delete the non-mission stuff.

That's all I've got for the moment.  I know some of these could be really tough to implement, but figured I'd share anyway.

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Feature Requests and Issues / Re: Offline Check-in

« on: September 09, 2012, 09:32:20 AM »

I just did some fiddling with this and I'm still having trouble.  Here is what I've found:

• I have an offline mission, check in doesn't (can't look up)
• If I Cache/Sync the mission, it still doesn't work
• If I Download a different web mission, it doesn't work
• Same result if I Cache/Sync the newly downloaded mission

I know I've had this working before, so I don't quite know what I'm doing wrong.  Anyone have any ideas?

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Feature Requests and Issues / Re: Assignments tab in mission

« on: September 09, 2012, 09:17:44 AM »

Would the current Tasks feature work for this?  Maybe you could have mission specific tasks, similar to the mission specific documents. 

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Announcements / Re: SARApp Search and Rescue Smart Phone App

« on: September 09, 2012, 09:12:41 AM »

FYI everyone, I just got the new version of SARApp pushed to my android.  The new login tab is a little easier to figure out for getting to Mission Manager now.  Once you select Mission Manager as your server, the SARApp server fields are hidden, since it doesn't need the info.  I heard a similar iPhone update went out too.

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Announcements / Re: Mission Manager - 5.5 New Mapping and Other Features

« on: September 05, 2012, 08:50:34 PM »

I'm a little confused by the width parameter on the Pie function.  I put in a .2 mile radius pie and got what I expected.  When I changed the width, the maximum distance of the draw object from the center seemed to increase from .2 miles, maybe using the radius as the center of the newly created annulus.  Is this right?  Would it be better to leave the radius as the max radius and use (radius-width) to give the new minimum radius?

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Feature Requests and Issues / Field Qualifications Requests

« on: August 30, 2012, 10:51:54 AM »

I've got two requests for features related to field qualifications.

• Can the binary field qualification items be displayed in the certifications report?  Right now a member can be displayed as not field qualified but all the expirations in the report are current. 
• Can there be some sort of override option for field qualifications?  Our sister team is bringing us into their Mission Manager database as non-guests so that we can login and help out in the command post.  Since they have different field qualification requirements than us, an override button would be handy, so long as it is used judiciously.