Every truck check is guided by a profile. A profile ties together a checklist (the items you inspect), an optional inventory workflow (narcotics and equipment to verify), and the vehicle or vehicles it applies to. Your administrator creates and manages profiles.
How the right profile is matched
When you select a vehicle, the app looks through all profiles and picks the best match. The matching order is based on scope type and priority number:
- Vehicle-specific -- a profile scoped to one particular vehicle. If Engine 4 has its own profile, that profile wins whenever you select Engine 4.
- Category-based -- a profile scoped to a vehicle category, like "Engine" or "Ambulance." Any vehicle in that category picks up this profile if there is no vehicle-specific one.
- Fallback -- a catch-all profile that applies to any vehicle that did not match a vehicle-specific or category-based profile.
If two profiles have the same scope type, the one with the lower priority number wins.
What a profile controls
- Which checklist you work through (the sections and items you inspect).
- Which fallback checklist is used if the primary one is unavailable.
- Which inventory location from Drug Tracking is loaded for the narcotics and equipment step.
- Whether crews can override the profile at runtime.
Example
Your agency has three profiles:
- A vehicle-specific profile for Medic 1 that uses the "ALS Ambulance" checklist and links to the Medic 1 drug bag in Drug Tracking.
- A category-based profile for all engines that uses the "Engine Company" checklist with no inventory workflow.
- A fallback profile that uses a basic "General Apparatus" checklist.
When you select Medic 1, you get the ALS Ambulance checklist and the drug bag. When you select Engine 2, you get the Engine Company checklist. When you select the utility truck that does not match any specific profile, you get the General Apparatus checklist.