Blog from August, 2017

New Region Feature

The region feature has been introduced for Crisisworks clusters, for example the Northern Victorian Region will have one site for 5 Councils to use, it can also be used for large organisations that have offices or branches in different regions or states.
The new ‘region’ feature allows linking of assets, events and certain types of register item to regional divisions.
Events may have multiple associated regions, whereas assets and register items are linked to a single region.
The register item types that support region include offers, requests, recovery cases, infrastructure assessments and information items.
All installations will be set up with at least one region by default, however multiple regions can be configured by Datalink on request.
If an installation has more than one region, when creating new events, administrators will be prompted to select one or more regions. For sites with a single region, that region will be linked by default.
If a register item’s event has more than one region available, a region selection field will be presented in its form. If the event has only one region available, that region will be linked by default. If the item’s form has an asset field, selection of an asset associated with a region will automatically select the matching region value in this field.
Operations and recovery reports support selection and filtering of results by region.
Asset import processes allow the asset’s region to be specified.

When changing an item’s event, all directly linked items are also moved to the new event.
A new ‘Bulk Move’ button in the item data grid allows multiple items to be transferred to another event in one operation.

For item forms, the tags, event selection, and, if relevant, new region selection field are displayed in a new ‘Classification’ field set.
For request items, the values for the resource ‘Cost Recovery Method’ field can now be changed via the lookup field manager.
When searching for resources to assign, resources’ organisation and in-use status are displayed in the results.