Creating a New Play

WEB APP
To create a new Play, navigate to the Admin Area in your D4H Incident Management account.
Open Plays
Click New Play
Fill in the details and turn on the modules you want available in that play
Click Save at the bottom of the screen
Name (Required)
The name will appear in the Start menu and will be the event / incident name. Choose a short name that ideally fits on a single line.
Description
Give a brief description as to what the type of event / incident is. 
For example, you could have a play called Severe Winter Storm, your description could be one of the following:
Severe Weather Response
Blizzard, Heavy Snows, Ice Storm
Selecting An Icon (Required)
Select an icon for the play. This icon will be used to represent the play in the Start menu. Press Show more to see more icons, and use keywords to search for the name of an icon.
Channel Status
These are the different statuses or alert levels you can use to categorize an incident. They can be defined in Settings.

Alert all invited users that this incident was created

This is where you can set the default for alerting users that a channel has been created. 
If Enabled by Default is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel an alert notification will be sent to invited users. Note, this can be overridden when starting a channel. 
If Disabled by Default is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel no alert notification will be sent to invited users. Note, this can be overridden when starting a channel. 
If Always Enabled is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel an alert notification will always be sent to invited users. 
If Always Disabled is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel no alert notification will be sent to invited users.
Modules
Here you can specify what modules should be turned on when you start this play. You can also select what data from collections you want available in the different modules.
Including Collections in a Play
Here is a list of the modules you can turn on or off within a play and the data you can have available:
​Personnel & Roles: you can select which teams are switched on

​Map annotations: you can select what map layers you want turned on

​Forms: you can choose what forms you want in your play

​Weather: can be turned on or off

​Library: you can add documents to the library from collections

​Status Board: you can select the data you want available from collections

​Task Board: you can choose which task lists you want available

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Name (Required)

Description

Selecting An Icon (Required)

Channel Status

Alert all invited users that this incident was created

Modules