In this issue we will cover how to create personnel groups to make selecting personnel easier.

Creating Personnel Groups

1.      Open FirePrograms.

2.      From the FirePrograms desktop, click on Admin – Department Information.

3.      Click on the Personnel Groups tab.

4.      Click Insert button to create a new Personnel Group.

5.      Enter a Group Name.  For example, Shift A

6.      Enter a Description (if desired) – to describe the personnel associated with this group.

7.      Click Insert button to attach personnel to this Personnel Group.  Please remember that a person can be  attached to
  more than one personnel group.  For example, if you would like a Personnel Group for Shift A & another one for
  Captains, the desired person can be attached to both Groups.

8.      Click … button to select desired Personnel.

9.      Highlight desired Personnel record, click Select button.

10.  Repeat steps 7 – 9 until all Personnel desired are listed in the browse table.

11.  Click OK to save the new Personnel Group

Using Personnel Groups

1.      To use the Personnel Groups, open desired module (for example purposes I will use Incident Reporting).

2.      Go to Personnel portion of the module, click … button beside Personnel ID.

3.      Click on the Groups tab to display all Personnel Groups.

4.      Highlight Personnel Group & click Select button.

5.      Your Group is now attached to the record.