Getting Started
Floating Panels
A search result, a BOLO, a report, a bodycam feed — none of it takes over your screen. It opens as a small window floating over whatever you were doing, so a dispatcher can look someone up without losing sight of the map and an officer can write a report next to the call it belongs to.
Moving and sizing
- Drag the panel by its title bar.
- Resize from the grip in the bottom-right corner.
- Click anywhere on a panel to bring it to the front.
The size you leave a panel at is remembered per kind: stretch one vehicle panel and every vehicle panel after it opens that big.
Panels cannot get lost. If you move to a smaller screen or shrink the window, anything that would have ended up off-screen is pulled back into view.
The dock
The two buttons in the title bar:
| Button | Does |
|---|---|
| 📌 Minimize to dock | parks the panel as a tab at the bottom of the screen |
| × Close | closes it |
A docked tab reopens with one click, and the × on the tab closes it for good. Think of the dock as your desk: the things you are still working on, out of the way but not gone.
Pinned forms keep what you typed. Minimize a half-filled Create Call, BOLO, warrant, report editor or notepad and every field is exactly as you left it when you bring it back — including things you cannot see, like the caller linked to a call you started from a live 911.
What survives
- Navigating within a department — walk from the map to the database and your panels come along.
- Reloading the page — open panels and docked tabs come back.
Panels are kept per department and per community. Dispatch's panels are not LEO's, and one community's pinned tabs never show up in another.
How many
The limit depends on how wide your screen is — roughly eight, more on an ultrawide, fewer on a small tablet — because the docked tabs share the width and have to stay readable. Hit it and the search tells you: "Panel limit reached — close one first."
One exception
A pursuit panel — which only dispatch gets — does not close on the ×; it minimizes instead. A running pursuit should never disappear by accident. End it with the End button inside the panel, and it closes itself.