Users

Subscription boards are boards shared between or among several WebEOCs over the WebEOC Fusion network. A subscription board is published to the WebEOC Fusion server and offered for use to connected WebEOCs.

WebEOCs that subscribe to the board can, depending on their level of permission, read, read/write, or read/write/delete information on the board. A record is added to a subscribing (local) WebEOC. The record moves from the local copy of the board to the server and is then added to each participating WebEOC.

Use Subscription Boards

On the Boards page, subscription boards are grouped together and displayed in a separate, section. If your system is subscribing to multiple WebEOC Fusion servers, subscription boards are grouped and labeled per the server.

Subscription boards are used in the same way as any user's standard board: users can add/update, view, sort, and filter data as determined by the permissions allowed by the board owner and feature group permissions on the subscribing (local) WebEOC server.

Subscription boards are located in the Boards [Server Name] section under the local boards section. These boards function the same as local boards, except that data posted to these boards is pushed to other subscribers. Data posted by other subscribers is also pushed to your subscription boards.

Board Attachments

Files attached to records posted to a subscription board through a regional incident are passed across the WebEOC Fusion hub to subscribers. Attachments can be downloaded or viewed directly from the board's display.

The maximum size of a board post with attachments is 4 MB. If the 4 MB limit is exceeded, an error displays and the record is sent with the attachments stripped from the entry.

Board Emails

Subscription board emails work the same as they do for local boards. You cannot set up emailing or board notifications on a subscriber's subscription board; this can only be accomplished on the publisher side.

Losing Connectivity to the Server

Should you lose connectivity to the WebEOC Fusion server, you can continue to add information to a subscription board. However, until connectivity is restored, new messages are not received from or relayed to other WebEOCs.

To indicate that WebEOC is not exchanging information with the WebEOC Fusion server, an "Offline" warning appears next to the server name. If this occurs, advise your WebEOC administrator of the situation.

You can still access the subscription boards locally, and you are able to add and view entries as needed. The information, however, is not relayed through the server to other subscribers until the connection is restored.

When the connection is restored, the "Offline" notification disappears from your subscription boards automatically synchronize with the other subscribers' boards. All subscription board entries made while the connection was down are sent to all other WebEOCs in the region and the local WebEOC receives all posts from other subscribers. After synchronization, the subscribing WebEOCs once again have all entries for the subscription boards.

Regional Incidents

Regional incidents are created by an administrator on a WebEOC server connected to the WebEOC Fusion network and offered for subscription to other member WebEOCs. The WebEOC administrator activates the regional incident on the local server, maps it to an existing or new local incident on your WebEOC, and assigns access permissions to authorized users.

Users log in to the local incident as directed by their WebEOC administrator in order to use a regional incident.The user can see the local incident and any mapped regional incidents next to the server name or names. Messages posted to local boards post under the local incidents, and messages posted or data linked to subscription boards seamlessly send under the mapped regional incident for that WebEOC Fusion server.