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1. General Tab (NERIS Setup)

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The General tab in NERIS setup is the main page that you see once you open NERIS Setup found here next to the old NFIRS reporting icon:

Once opened it will bring you to the general tab

From the general tab, you can add or disable specific additional functions for the NERIS module 

Use Local Reviewer Panel:

  • Allows the department to have a review process before the incident can be submitted to NERIS

Use Unit Validation Panel: 

  • Allows the department to have custom validation rules added to their unit report in the Response tab of the NERIS report

    Note: If your department is interested in the unit validation panel, please contact us at tech@alpinesoftware.com with your requirements so we can add your department specific Unit / Apparatus validation rules in for you.

Track Responding Companies

  • Companies must be setup in the Agencies tab of the system setup area

Auto Credit point Type

  • Allows the department to specify what default credit gets assigned to their members initially when they are added to the attendance of a call

  • You can add more point types within Personnel Module Setup -> Attendance Type tab

Automatically Transfer Personnel From Schedule

  • This will automatically transfer your personnel from your scheduled roster

     

Can Override Incident Length 

  • If checked, anyone with NERIS Edit rights can manually set or change the Incident event length in the report 

     

Enable Advanced EMS Report form

  • This enables the ability for a department to locally track more EMS information as needed within NERIS using the EMS NFIRS report. 

  • This information does not get submitted to NERIS as it is not required 

    If you Open the EMS report you will see the following:

     

Show NERIS Equipment Usage Form Button

  • This enables the departments ability to track their Equipment used on a NERIS report similar to NFIRS

    Once opened you will see the following

Transfer scheduled Personnel with no End Date Time

  • This is used for departments that utilize duty crew at time of dispatch to still bring in members who are marked as available for the day

     

Transfer personnel from schedule without unit assignment

  • This is used for departments that want to see their entire list of scheduled personnel in their unit report attendance section even if those members are not assigned to a specific unit on their shift

     

Show Others Involved

  • This enables the Others Involved Functionality that was present in NFIRS for departments that utilize cost recovery options

     

Show Seconds on incident Times

  • This function is for systems that do not have dispatchers or a CAD interface that do not want to manually enter the seconds into their incident times

  • This is enabled by default for systems that have a CAD interface, or have a dispatching module enabled as the seconds will populate automatically

     

Remove Agency Filter For Units / Personnel in NERIS Response

  • This function removes the agency specific filtering for the personnel and units that are appearing under the Response tab in NERIS

  • This is for departments that want to select Units outside of their agency for mutual aid tracking purposes within their incidents

     

Require personnel attendance for NERIS incidents in order to validate

  • This function adds the requirement for at least one attendance record to be entered into a NERIS report in order to successfully validate and submit a report to NERIS

     

Enable live updates to NERIS unit response times

  • This function enables live unit times to be transferred into NERIS reports before the alarm is closed

  • This is for departments that want to see their Dispatched, Enroute, On Scene, and cleared times within the NERIS report before the alarm closes as soon as the status for those times are sent from dispatch

     

Number of Hours to Edit Incident

  • This allows the department to lock editing a NERIS incident after a certain amount of hours to prevent potential fraudulent entry 

  • Users with the "Edit Past Time Period" Security permission enabled can edit a locked NERIS report, users without the permission enabled cannot

     

NERIS Start Date box

 

NERIS Update Incident Length Batch Change

  • This allows the department to enter a date range of incidents, and do the following:

    • Update the Incident length of all the NERIS incidents within the entered date range
    • Update the Attendance records of all the NERIS incidents within the entered date range
    • Departments can choose to turn on either options to update one length, and not the other if desired

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