PowerDMS
This feature lets you save documents you use often so you can quickly find them again.
What are Bookmarks?
This Aladtec tab is where you go when you want to view who is working when.
What is Schedules?
This field has recipients that are the people expected to respond or take action on an email.
What is TO?
After signing into the County intranet, this is the main page where you’ll see things like announcements, information spotlights, the employee bulletin board, and County updates.
What is the Employee Center?
This section lets you review things like your contact information, dependents, beneficiaries, supervisor, and work location.
What is Personal Information?
These two folders contain shared resources specific to each operational side of dispatch.
What are the PD Dispatch and FE Dispatch folders?
This box near the top of PowerDMS is where you can begin searching for a document.
What is Find Anything?
This section of Aladtec is where you go to submit a request for a day off.
What is My Schedule, then Submit Time Off?
Use this field for people who need to stay informed but are not necessarily expected to respond.
What is CC?
Use this menu when you want to browse information organized by individual County departments.
What is Department Information?
This section shows your available PTO, Holiday, EML, and other leave balances. Remember, SCCEC dispatchers only view their balances here.
What is Time Off?
This folder contains approximately 118 school maps and resources that may be useful during major incidents.
What is School Maps?
Use this keyboard shortcut when you want to search for a specific word or phrase inside an open document.
What is Ctrl + F?
Call-Take and Radio Daily Observation Reports are found under this category in the Forms menu.
What is Training?
Recipients placed in this field are hidden from everyone else receiving the email.
What is BCC?
The Holiday Schedule, Bulletin Board, Insight Employee Newsletter, Employee Directory, InformaCast, Finance, and Workers Compensation can all be found under this menu.
What is Employee Resources?
Your official yearly County evaluation is found under Performance Management in this area.
What are Evaluations?
This folder contains things like trainee sign-off forms, training resources, the Academy Quizlet link, and the What3Words procedure.
What is the Training folder?
When a policy has been revised, this PowerDMS feature can help you see what changed between the old and new versions.
What is Compare Current Document to Prior Version?
This form, located under Administrative, is commonly used to document things such as call-taking errors or tardiness.
What is the Incident Report?
Before clicking this button, ask yourself whether everyone on the message really needs to receive your response.
What is Reply All?
Under Department Information, this department contains useful links for Benefits, Career Development, Job/Salary Classifications, Learning Library, Performance Management, and Workers’ Compensation.
What is Human Resources?
Marriage, birth, adoption, divorce, and gain or loss of insurance coverage are examples of changes submitted through this section.
What are Life Events?
These two similarly named folders inside Training contain materials used for learning and cross-training.
What are Cross Training Resources & Materials and Training Resources and Materials?
This search option lets you narrow results using things such as Name, Description, Type, Revision Date Range, and Keyword Tags.
What are Advanced Search Filters?
Once a dispatcher is completely signed off, this form can be used when two dispatchers agree to trade shifts for a rotation.
What is the Exchange of Duty Form?
Once on the floor, dispatchers need to regularly monitor these shared Outlook folders for things like officer information, crime statistics, zone assignments, or patient transfers.
What are the PD and FE Dispatch folders?
From the County website, employees first click Employees Only, then use this option to access the Employee Intranet with their County credentials.
What is Sign In With SSO?
This menu in the upper-right corner contains helpful employee documents and links, including things such as the County Code of Conduct.
What is the Resources menu?
Because the O: Drive is shared, these are three things you should never do to files unless you are responsible for them.
What are rename, move, or delete them?