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titleChapter 01

🚀 Getting Started

User Login

  1. Navigate to the CORE Team Application Portal

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

  4. Enter your valid IDIR credentials.

  5. 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 coordinators who want to search for deployable CORE members, or monitor pending applicant submissions for approval. To perform these tasks, the . 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 “Home Region/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

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To learn how to approve a pending applicant and track their document submissions from the personnel page, please go to Reviewing and Approving Applicants in Chapter 3.

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Tab Search Results Column Definitions:

  • Name: Active : Refers to members who are currently active in the CORE program and are readily deployable.

  • Inactive: Refers to members who are no longer active in the program due to various reasons (e.g maternity leave, hiatus from program, etc.). They are unavailable for deployments during a fire season.

  • Pending Approval: Refers to applicants who have submitted their intake form, but have not yet been approved into the program as a CORE member.

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Search Results Table Columns: “Pending Approval” Tab

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  • ' 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.

  • Region: Indicates the region that a member belongs to, based on their home location.

  • 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.

  • Remote Only: Indicates whether a member is only able to work remotely or not during a deployment.

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

  • Ministry: Indicates the ministry that a member came from.


The Profile Page

Profile pages store individual EMCR member and applicant information. The member profile consists of five sections:

  1. Profile banner displaying information including the member’s name, member status (active/inactive), last time they have been deployed, etc.;

  2. Member Details section;

  3. Functions & Experience Levels section;

  4. Member’s schedule displaying their availability and scheduled deployments; and

  5. Notes section

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Applicant Profile

While the applicant profile has the same five sections as the member profile, it also includes additional components, such as the pending applicant information banner and the individual intake requirement status under Applicant Details, to help EMCR coordinators keep track of other applicant requirements for approval. To see how to approve an applicant to become a EMCR member, please see Reviewing and Approving Applicants in Chapter 3.

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Regarding access levels in notes:

Please be aware that although coordinators can view and edit information under both “Notes” and “Coordinator Notes,” logistic users cannot see what’s saved under “Coordinator Notes.” Please keep this distinction in mind when adding information to a member’s profile

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titleChapter 03

👩‍💻 What Coordinators can do in CORE Team

Reviewing and Approving Applicants

  1. View “Pending Approval” List: On the Personnel page, scroll down to the search results table and switch to the “Pending Approval” tab.

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  1. Review Requirements Status: Review the submission status for “ICS Training” and “Supervisor Approval”. Make sure to cross-check these items with applicant names in your regional email inbox to confirm submission.

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  1. Go to Applicant Profile: Once you have made sure that you have received the intake requirement(s) from the applicant, click on the applicant’s name in the search results to proceed to their applicant profile.

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  1. Click the “Edit” button on the top right corner of the Member Details section.

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  1. Update Intake Requirements Status: Under “Intake Requirements”, change the status for the received items (i.e., Supervisor Approval, ICS Training) in their respective dropdown fields.

    1. Open the dropdown field(s).

    2. Select “Received” for Supervisor Approval, and/or “Completed” for ICS Training.

    3. Click “Save”.

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  1. Complete Review: On the “Pending Applicant Information Alert” banner, the list of item statuses will be updated.

    1. Click “Approve as Member” on the right side of the banner. (This button will only appear when all requirements are marked as “Received”/”Completed”)

    2. Click “Confirm” again in the confirmation pop-up.

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  1. The applicant is now approved into the program as a EMCR member. You can now schedule them for deployment, update their information, if needed, or change their status to “inactive”.

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Once you approve an applicant as a member, you cannot undo this action. Additionally, you will no longer be able to see the intake requirement status “ICS Training” under the “Member Details” section.

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Finding Members to Deploy

Utilizing search

Search filters:

“Home Region

“Region/Home Location”

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

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

  1. Select one or more regions without including specific home locations.

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

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

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This filter automatically refines the search results to members who belong to the selected region(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 Fort Nelson (NEA).

Search filters: Willingness to Travel

The second way is to use the Region/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, instead of 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)

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The search results 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 across BC who are abled to be deployed to an incident happening in 100 Mile House.

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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Tip

Practice navigating the dashboard with the following scenario:

You are a coordinator in the Vancouver Island Coastal (VIC) region. You need to deploy a member who meets

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

Recovery

  1. the food unit leader role under Logistics;

  2. 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 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 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 BCWS deployments in the same calendar, if a member is enrolled in both EMCR and BCWS.

Editing Profile Sections

If you want to update any information under “Member Details”, “Functions & Experience Levels”, simply click on the “Edit” button on the top right corner of each section.

Updating Member Details

Please see step 5 of Reviewing and Approving Applicants. The process for accessing the "Edit Member Details" modal is the same as for editing applicant details.

Editing Functions & Experience Levels

  1. To update a member’s experience level for a specific function:

    1. Click “Edit” on the top right corner of the “Functions & Experience Levels” section.

    2. Open the “Experience” dropdown menu next to the function that you want to update.

    3. Select the appropriate experience level for that function in the dropdown menu.

    4. Once you have made all the updates, click save.

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Add Notes

See Step 5 of Finding Members to Deploy.

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