DUBLIN, IRELAND - Hello from Head Quarters. We've just shipped the latest version (Spring 2010 Release) of Decisions For Heroes to all team accounts. User accounts are automatically upgraded.

Keep an eye on this blog and Facebook as we're going to feature a New Build Feature listed below every day with a how-to guide and video so you get the most from your account.

Here's a list of what's new - see if you can find them all!

New Builds

• Qualifications now have built in expectation management.


• Search dog and mounted units can now mark qualifications against animals (e.g. certificates and licenses).


• Animal handlers can now have qualfications linked to a specific animal.


• Animal and handler operational availability is tracked when both are compliant and operational.


• Full qualification history records.


• New global mapping system (Microsoft Bing Maps) giving good imagery.


• Addresses are geocoded so you can type in a street address to calculate automatic marker position and latitude longitude.


• Activities are now reverse geocoded to an address when you move a marker, we'll work out the street address.


• Mapping clusters let you analyse hotspots of incidents. Interpret a lot of geographical data quickly.


• Real-time collaboration now includes threaded conversation and the ablity to vote up/down ideas.


• Discussions can be categorized as lessons learnt, proposals, comments, and questions.


• Get notified by email when someone replies to your thread. Mute conversations you've had enough of.


• A daily digest email is sent out to all members giving an overview of active discussions in last 24 hours.


• We've launched our widget server in [Team Settings] where you can show a public view of your incidents with a custom sponsor message.


• We look at what you've recently done, and have scheduled and suggest things to collaborate over.


• Timestamps on incidents now dynamically adapt for the standdown time depending on your selection.


• Weekly Briefings check for compliance across every hour of the week, not just now.

Enhancements:

• New members are requested to attend all future full-team events automatically on joining team.


• If you are sent a link to a specific page, you will be redirected there after sign-in.


• Calendars and User Interface upgraded from YUI to JQuery. Date pickers have better inter-year support.


• Time inputs allow for keystrokes up down left right to change time field.


• New validation scripts check inputs are correct before submission.


• New User Interface with better colour coding for less text.


• Chat box on dashboard shows only unread latest posts.


• Notes may be added to qualifications to explain it to members.


• In team settings the account owner may choose the default map type (Satellite Imagery or Street Map).


• Qualifications may have a default expiry length of time.


• Table headers float and scroll with the page for large volumes of data.


• Event icons have changed to purple as grey was confusing users with status level.


• When filling out a form, users are prompted if leaving the page will loose data.


• Email and SMS for activity attendance and groups have been added on the sidebar.


• Datatables plug-in allows for site-wide table sorting.


• Tags and resources analytics now show as % of activity type rather than count.


• OS Grid Refs are now stored in the database rather than being dynamically computed on page load.