The recent release of Filemaker 10 has had us jumping to incorporate some of the new stuff into PolicePro. One of the first visible changes is what FM calls Dynamic Reports - the ability to instantly present live, editable data in different sorted views. We’ve applied this to some of our lists in PolicePro, such as the general Dispatch incident list.

The default, longtime behavior of this list was an attractive and easy to read list of everything current, where related content (arrests, criminal complaints, etc) can be seen and accessed. Very useful, very nice, but it was static.





If you look near the top right, though, we’ve now added a row of radio buttons. Clicking any of these - or any others we may enable, depending on what kind of data is being looked at - instantly changes the view to a sorted and summarized list, shown first by Incident Type:





The great thing here is that the data is still live, searchable and editable. If a review indicated that an incident in the Zone/Post summary view below had been assigned to the wrong zone, changing the Zone field will instantly move the record to the proper spot in the list.




You can print any of these by clicking the Print button - the resulting job will be the same sorted and summarized list in a more paper friendly format.

You can see that anyone whose duties involve reviewing or reporting on multiple sets of information is going to love this! Doing a quick Find for a specific officer, for example, and clicking one of the view buttons will give you an instant and easily understood summary of that officer’s activity by date - how many calls he or she handled, for example - or zone, or any other relevant criteria.

There’s a ton more coming, but this is already going over very well with people who’ve had a chance to see it. And many more are going to be seeing it pretty quick - we’re rolling out several new and upgrade PolicePro 10 projects in the next six weeks. Busy is good!