Dashboards Widgets

Dashboards help you monitor performance metrics in real time by providing an at-a-glance view of pertinent data and analytics and provide engaging data visualizations that present information in a way that allows you to take action.

FireServiceRota’s customisable dashboards are built from “widgets”; components that display information about a certain aspect of your organisation. Widgets can be dragged, dropped and resized onto the canvas. The appearance and filter settings are customised by the user on the fly.

Region Map	The region map is a real-time strategic map that shows colour-coded warnings on crewing levels. It can be resized to become part of a dashboard with other widgets.
Announcements	This widget displays the existing announcements for the county and/or station. Attachments and polls can be added to announcements. Polls make it possible to quickly ask users for an opinion or decision about a certain topic.
Absence Requests	This widget will show you a list of the active absence requests, depending on the absence request you select (can be leave, sickness, course, etc.), you can also select to show the requests that start on a specific number of dates, group you are looking at.
Tired Response Pie Chart	If a service adopts a Tiered Response model, this pie chart shows the breakdown of the number of appliances per response level: green (immediate), orange (2nd line), red (3rd line) and black (off the run). Typically used by Resource Management teams.
Appliance List	This widget displays a list of appliances per station and their current and next response level. In addition, it shows the names of personnel in a particular skill (like OiC) and total crewing numbers. It is typically used by Resource Management and Fire Control.
Available Crew Members	This widget displays the available crew for the active station, including roles, skills and shift codes. It is typically used by station managers and firefighters.
Crewing Levels Warnings	This widget shows the current and predicted crewing levels of all of the station’s appliances. This widget will allow you to have a quick left-click to do an Extra Shift Request when you see an understaffing on the widget. Or you will also have a left-click review of the group rota if necessary.
Contact List	This widget lists on-duty personnel in specific roles. Moving the mouse over a name provides instant access to contact details. This widget is typically used by Fire Control for quick access to designated on-duty personnel contact details.
Number of Available personnel	This widget shows the current and forecasted number of on-duty staff for specific roles. Roles and filters can be tailored.
Personal Contract Statistics	Shows the user’s personal contract statistics including compliance indicators,for example, leave (this depends on the constraints of their contract). The contractual information can be shown per week and year.
External Website	The external-website widget is to help display a page from a different website. Maybe a weather website or any other external tool. Note: not all external websites allow it to be embedded in other websites. If this widget does not show anything or displays an error, please check with the administrator of the external website whether the so-called 'X-Frame-Options' allow embedding within FireServiceRota.
Personal Calendar	This is a widget that will show you all your schedules across all stations you are part of, this widget is recommended to used when doing a personal dashboard.
Duty Planner	This widget will show you a daily overview of who is performing which duty function during the day.
Quick Availability Change	This widget is recommended for personal dashboards but will allow users to change their availability from the dashboard's view. A fast way of not entering other pages to change your status.
Incident dashboard widgets
Quick Incident Buttons	This widget is to help you build pre-set buttons for quickly creating incidents, this means every time you click on any of the buttons, an alert will be sent to users.
Live Incident Map	The live incident map has markers to: a truck represents the Station, while an exclamation point represents the incident location. You can now also find the directions between the Station and the Incident.
Crew Confirmations	This is a live incident crew confirmation widget, that will update depending on the user's response to any alert.
Incident Message	The incident message widget provides a description and the full address (if available) of the incident. Also, it displays a counter that keeps track of the time since the incident was created.  The Incident Message widget has the option to speak the incident message, allowing the crew to focus on getting ready without the need to stare at the monitor.
Incident crewing warnings	Displays the Crewing Status of the notified appliances in real-time for ongoing incidents, which aims to provide a clear indication of whether an appliance is understaffed.
Radio channels	This widget will show any radio/ops channels for active incidents, but for this, you will require integration with mobilisation software.
Incident Notes	Displays incident notes created by fire control, it also requires integration with mobilisation software.
StreetView	Another widget available is the StreetView Widget, which displays the facade of the address provided for the incident. This is a very helpful tool for crews to get a picture of the incident location, saving valuable seconds.
Active Incident List	This widget displays any active incidents and their response status.
Seat Allocations	This is a widget that displays who is assigned to which seat. Depending on the alerting policy, this can be based on availability, duty, skills and fairness, Not all alerting policies can support this feature yet.

Dashboards provide an unbiased view not only of the Fire and Rescue Service overall but each station, regardless of whether it is wholetime or retained duty as well. With the possibility to tailor it to each individual’s specific needs, it offers a foundation for better decision making.