When conducting training exercises, it is often useful to prepare a series of items such as situation reports, messages, requests and cases, and then inject them at key points in the simulation.
Crisisworks now supports this aim, by utilising global events and the copy feature.
Step 1
When preparing for your training exercise, you can start by creating an event for that preparation to store the injects. This event will not be the event that is used for the exercise itself — it will instead store the training injects and can be re-used many times.
As an administrator:
Step 2
Next, you can add the messages as required, and assign them to the positions as required. Before saving, set the Is Template flag, which can be found in the Advanced section of the form.
Step 3
Finally, convert this event to a global event, to make it easier to access the templates when working within other events.
Tip: This event doesn't just need to store the training injects — you can also use the Library area to store the exercise plans and other data.
Step 1
Before you start your exercise, you will begin by creating a new event, adding in the required positions.
Step 2
When the exercise starts, log in and go on duty to the exercise event, and be sure to work within the exercise event and not "All Participating Events"
Step 3
When you wish to inject a template item, follow these steps:
At the conclusion of your exercise you will close the exercise event.
You can choose whether or not to keep the training templates available for other events — if you do then keep the global event open, otherwise close it. You can always re-open it later to use it for another training exercise.