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titleChapter 01

🚀 Getting Started

User Login

  1. Navigate to the CORE Team Application Portal

  2. On the landing page, click “Log In”.

  3. Enter your valid IDIR credentials.

  4. Click Continue or hit the ENTER key.

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After successful login, you will be navigated to the Personnel page in the dashboard.

Logging Out

  1. Click on your user profile on the top right corner of the screen.

  2. Click “Logout”.

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titleChapter 02

🖥️ Anatomy of the CORE Team Dashboard

The Personnel Page

This is the first page that you will see upon logging into the application. The personnel page is typically the starting point for searching for deployable CORE members. The personnel page consists of two main functionalities: 1) Search filters to help narrow down your search; and 2) Search results display (see visuals below).

Search Filters

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For specific Instructions on how to use the more complex filters (i.e., the “Fire Centre/Home Location” and “Availability/Date Range” filter), as well as how to read the search results table with the availability filter applied, please see Finding Members to Deploy in Chapter 3.

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Search Results Column Definitions

  • Name: Active members' names are displayed with new members at the top in reverse chronological order (date approved), followed by other active members listed alphabetically.

  • Approved: Indicates the date that a member was approved into the CORE program.

  • Fire Centre: Indicates the fire centre that a member belongs to.

  • Home Location: Indicates the member’s current place of residence.

  • Availability: Indicates whether a member is available, unavailable, or deployed among the days selected in the availability filter.

    • If the status is only partial for a member, it will display the value in the following format: “[status] # of # (total) days”.

  • Willing to Travel: Indicates whether a member is willing to travel during their deployments.

  • Union Membership: Indicates the union membership that a member is affiliated with.


The Profile Page

Profile pages store individual BCWS member and applicant information. The member profile consists of six components:

  1. Profile banner displaying information including the member’s name, member status (active/inactive), employee number, etc.;

  2. Member Details section;

  3. Member Availability;

  4. BCWS section and roles that the member indicated they are interested and/or experienced in;

  5. Skills & Certifications section; and

  6. Notes section

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titleChapter 03

👩‍💻 What Logistics Users can do in CORE Team

Finding Members to Deploy

Utilizing search

Search filters: “Fire Centre/Home Location”

There are three two main ways to use go about using the “Fire Fire Centre/Home Location” filter:

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Location filter. The first one is using it find people who reside in a selected area (fire centre/home location). When choosing an option from this dropdown menu, you can either:

  1. Select one or more fire centres without including specific home locationsonly.

  1. Selecting Select one or more fire centres, and then refining the search to include specific home locations within those centres.

  1. Selecting Directly select one or more home locations without selecting a fire centre.

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This filter automatically refines the search results to members who belong to the selected fire centre(s) and/or home location(s).

Potential scenarios that may require search by home location:

  • You need to look for any available members who currently reside in Lillooet (Kamloops Fire Centre).

Search filters: Willingness to Travel

The second way is to use the Fire Centre/Home Location filter to search for members who are able to travel to a specific area. In this case, the fire centre or location that is selected refers to the area that you want to deploy the member to, rather than where people are coming from. To do this, you must:

  1. Select a location;

  2. Simply check the box that says “Show members willing to travel to the selected location(s)”.

The search results below will automatically refresh, showing all members who are willing to travel to the selected area, regardless of where they live in the province.

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Potential scenarios that may require search by willingness to travel:

  • You need to find any active members in BC who are abled to be deployed to an incident happening in Port Alberni (Coastal Fire Centre).

Search filters: Specify experience level for Section/Role

If you want to find members who have a specific experience level for a section/role:

  1. Select a role from the “Section/Role” dropdown menu;

  2. If you only want to see people who have experience in the selected role (i.e., have previously sat on a role in past deployments) select “Experienced Only”;

  3. If you only want to see people who do not have experience but are interested in the selected role, select “Interested Only”.

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Utilizing search filters: “Availability/Date Range”

  1. Select a status from the “Availability” dropdown.

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  1. Open “Availability Date Range” and click on a start and end date on the date picker. This will set the date range for the availability status selected in step 1.

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  1. In this example, the search results will be automatically refreshed to just members who are available any day(s) between June 10-17, 2024.

    1. “Available”: indicates that the member is available every day between June 10th and June 17th.

    2. “Available x of x days”: indicates that the member is only available for certain days out of the total number of days in the selected date range.

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Practice navigating the dashboard with the following scenario:

For deployment, please search for member(s) who meet the following requirements:

  1. Lives in or near Nanaimo (Coastal Fire Centre);

  2. Is interested or experienced in the food unit leader role under Logistics;

  3. Is available for deployment for at least 3 consecutive days between June 13-20, 2024.

Reviewing deployable member’s profile information

Once you have found a suitable member, you can browse deeper in their profile to further assess their deployment readiness. Some actions you can do with the member profile:

  1. Using the organization info displayed under “Member Details”, you can contact the member’s supervisor/liaison to confirm the member’s participation for an upcoming deployment.

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  1. You can also save important notes about the member in the Notes section to inform other logistics roles and/or coordinators.

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Scheduling Members

Adding an Availability

  1. On the member’s profile, you can update the scheduler by either clicking “Update Availability” on the top right corner of the section, or select a date block directly on the calendar.

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  1. Add a new availability in the pop-up modal.

    1. Select a start and end date for the availability date range. You can do this by clicking on the date picker or entering a valid date in the date fields.

    2. Click on one of the three statuses for the selected date range.

    3. If you are setting up a deployment, you can enter a valid Task/Resource Request number.

    4. Once you have added all the required details, click “Save”.

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  1. You will see the selected date range and availability status highlighted in the member’s schedule.

  2. If you want to edit or delete an existing availability on the calendar, simply click on the date range on the member’s schedule and make changes in the Edit Availability Modal.

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Note that you can now also see all EMCR deployments in the same calendar, if a member is enrolled in both EMCR and BCWS.

Add Notes

See Step 5 of Finding Members to Deploy.

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