Incident Dashboard Summary

When you first open the Incident Dashboard, the Summary tab is active.

Incident Dashboard Summary Screenshot

Elements

The tab contains information about your status and position, as well as high-level incident details.

Summary elements and descriptions
Element Description Actions
My Status

  • Personal availability

  • Location

  • Contact information

  • Preferred contact methods

  • Assigned position and associated files

  • Update Status

  • View/Open Files

Incident

  • Name

  • Status and Type

  • Start date and time

  • The person who started the incident

  • The person who ended the incident

  • Operational Period

  • Command Center contact information and location

  • Incident Description

  • Incident Mission

  • Edit Incident

  • End Incident

  • Unlock Chart

  • Escalate

Actions

The summary tab provides access to several incident-related actions.

  • Update Your Status – From this tab, you can quickly and easily update your status.

  • Edit, Escalate, End, or Close the Incident –   Authorized users can edit the incident's detail, end the incident, close it, or escalate it.

  • Unlock Plan –   The Domain Administrator can also unlock an incident's ICS chart from this tab.

Unlock Chart Button Screenshot


This allows authorized users to work with certain chart elements, such as labor pool subgroups. Clicking this option unlocks the chart for this incident only.