New feature spotlight: Tasks

Availability: Enhanced, Elite, and Enterprise editions

Starting in 3.32, in our Elite editions and above, the new Tasks sidebar in Informant lets you easily view, create, and manage tasks for yourself and others, including adding tasks to any record in Informant across all modules. This powerful new feature makes managing your department's workload much easier while improving accountability and collaboration.

Here are just some examples of what's possible with the new Tasks feature:

• Simplify your record review process: Assign a task to a supervisor when it's time for them to review a record, and have supervisors assign follow-up tasks to officers with specific feedback if they need to address any issues.
• Schedule evidence audits: Assign a recurring task to remind you or your evidence officer to perform evidence audits, and see when they complete it.
• Add private todos: View and add tasks in your own task list to track your tasks.
• Create recurring tasks: Create daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly repeating tasks for important tasks that repeat on a regular schedule.
• And anything else you want to keep track of: Tasks are like digital sticky notes. Use them for anything!

Other noteworthy changes: Here's what else is new in this release

In addition to Tasks, this update contains several other notable enhancements and new functionality.

Auto-populate latitude and longitude

Informant's new Geocoding feature automatically fills in the Latitude and Longitude in Location records when it recognizes the address or intersection. This feature helps you keep accurate location information in Informant and is essential in states where NIBRS reporting requires this data.

Availability: Enhanced, Elite, and Enterprise editions

Edit records simultaneously

Sometimes you've finished a long narrative or made other edits to a record, but can't save your changes because another user also made changes. Now, when Informant detects that another user has changed a record, their changes and yours are combined.

Add extensions to phone numbers

All phone number fields in Informant now include an Ext field for entering an optional extension (up to 4 digits), and extensions also appear on all reports that display phone numbers.

Redact street numbers in reports

As an alternative to redacting full street addresses in reports, users can now redact the street numbers in addresses via the new "Street numbers" option in the Hide Data tool, keeping street names visible in reports without identifying individual homes/locations.

Find and fix NIBRS errors early

The Export NIBRS Data wizard has a new option (Run a NIBRS error check for the current month) that finds and reports NIBRS issues in incident records entered or updated since the start of the month. This lets records staff proactively review and fix NIBRS data entry errors as often as needed before the month's submission is due.

Import more data from TraCS

The E-Citation Interface is now even more streamlined:

• Non-traffic citations created in TraCS are now imported into Informant, saving time by avoiding
• Business defendants and businesses listed as vehicle owners in traffic and non-traffic citations are now detected and imported into Informant or linked to an existing business if one exists.

Import Person records from a CSV file

The new Import Person Records feature under Tools in Administration lets you import Person records from a CSV file, making it easy to import records from a student information system or another RMS.

Manage access to Informant's spell-check dictionary

The new <General> | Add words to spell-check dictionary permission allows administrators to control which user groups can add words to Informant's spell-checker when working in records.

Master index records now load faster

Master index records with a large amount of history in the History tab now load more quickly. This means your most-used master index records will open faster.