Agency Field Descriptions

Field Name Agency Field Description
Agency Status Use to disable the Agency. Disabling an Agency immediately affects the Roster and People Filter.
Conditions Use to enter a Dynamic Condition to control when an Agency displays on the Roster. Rare usage and applies to databases housing multiple agencies. Important: Do not use this field in a database with only one Agency, because the Agency should always be enabled.
Phone A field use to house a phone number at the agency level. The Outbound module could use this field to contact on-duty personnel. The Contact feature uses this field to provide this number as the Suggested Contact when personnel is on-duty.
On duty contact method When selected, the contact method provided may be used for contacting on-duty personnel instead of their personal contact methods.
 
Note: The first On-Duty Contact method the application encounters looking backwards from the Position is used as the suggested contact for contacting on-duty personnel.
Opp # A number that is used during a List sort when a Rule with Rule Type Organization Opportunity #’s is selected. The first Opportunity number the application encounters looking backward from the Position is used to sort candidates in opportunity number order using base rule type: Organization Opportunity #’s.
Account This optional field stores an account code for the selected Agency. Limit 30 characters. Limit 50 characters as of application versions 7.0.1
Roster Merge Displays all Agencies. Use to merge Agencies together. Select <none> if there's only one Agency or to keep multiple Agencies separate. Rare usage.
External ID This optional field stores additional data to be used in a data export, such as the Payroll Export, or used to hold Call Sign data via Formula IDs. Limit 40 characters.
Include name in merged name Select to include and form one name on the Roster when this Agency is merged with another Agency(s). For example: “Agency 1, Agency 5”. Rare usage.
Filter Target Allows this Agency to be targeted as a selection using One filter target of found in base rule: <People Filter>.
Gray Number The application Internal ID.