Monitoring evacuations using the Evacuation monitoring task - Evacuation Assistant 1.4.0

Evacuation Assistant Guide 1.4.0
Product
Evacuation Assistant
Content type
Guides > Plugin and extension guides
Version
1.4
Language
English
Last updated
2023-05-31

You can monitor the progress of evacuations by generating reports from the Evacuation monitoring task in Security Desk.

Before you begin

You must have the Evacuation monitoring privilege.

What you should know

  • At least one evacuation must be in progress for you to generate reports from the Evacuation monitoring task.
  • You must manually regenerate the report to get the latest information, or you can add the report to a dashboard and configure it to auto-refresh.

    For more information about creating dashboards, see Creating a dashboard.

  • Cardholders referred to in this task include visitors.
  • If the user generating the report does not have partition access to specific cardholders, their sensitive information is redacted in the report.
  • If the user generating the report does not have partition access to certain areas, evacuations for those areas are unavailable in the Evacuations filter.

Procedure

  1. From the Security Desk home page, open the Evacuation monitoring task.
  2. Select one or more of the following query filters for your report:
    Evacuation
    The evacuations from the selected areas.
    Mustering areas
    The areas to which people are gathering.
    Cardholder evacuation status
    The safety status of the cardholder:
    Unknown
    The individual has not reached the mustering area.
    Safe
    The individual has reached the mustering area.
    Unsafe
    The individual was manually marked as Unsafe in the MusteringApp.
    Custom fields
    Click Add criterion, and select a custom field to add as a filter.
    NOTE: The Employer and Essential worker custom fields are added by the plugin by default. These custom fields are visible to all users in the Evacuation Assistant portal, regardless of the Security configuration of the custom fields.
    IMPORTANT: This filter displays all custom fields created for plugins on your system.

    Visitor custom fields must have the same name and type as the cardholder custom fields to be filterable in reports.

  3. Click Generate report.
    The events are listed in the report pane. The following report pane columns are available for this report:
    Evacuation
    The evacuations from the selected areas.
    Last access location
    The area the evacuated cardholder last badged into.
    NOTE: If the cardholder is given an Unknown status, this field is empty.
    Last activity door
    The last door the cardholder badged on.
    Last activity timestamp
    Date and time of cardholder's most recent access activity.
    First name
    The cardholder's first name.
    Last name
    The cardholder's last name.
    Picture
    The cardholder's picture.
    Cardholder group
    The cardholder's cardholder group.
    Mobile phone number
    The cardholder's mobile phone number.
    Status
    The safety status of the cardholder (Unknown, Safe, and Unsafe).
    Status source
    How the cardholder's status was updated (Manual if updated by a user, Automatic if updated by the plugin).
    Timestamp
    Date and time of cardholder's status update.
    Elapsed time
    The time elapsed since the start of the evacuation.
    Employer
    The cardholder's employer. This value comes from the Employer custom field that was added by the plugin.
    Essential worker
    Whether or not the cardholder is an essential worker. This value comes from the Essential worker custom field that was added by the plugin.
  4. Click the buttons above the report pane to export, email, or print the report, add the report to a Security Center dashboard, or display the report in a chart.

Example

The following image shows the Evacuation monitoring task configured to display all cardholders that are part of the evacuation from Building A. The chart is configured to display the data by status.

The following image shows the same report for the Building A evacuation added to a dashboard, and configured to auto-refresh every minute. Another instance of the Evacuation monitoring task was configured to display the same data for the Building B evacuation, and added to the dashboard.