History of eBrigade 3.0 to 3.5 versions

eBrigade 3.5

Technical compatibility : PHP support from version 5.2 to 5.6.

New features and improvements

• Configurable invoice elements to adapt the invoicing documents.
• Volunteer passport :
  • PDF document downloadable from the personal file.
  • Summarizes skills and participations.
• Hours of salaried staff :
  • New field to enter hours worked outside of time clocking.
• Bank accounts :
  • Improved IBAN entry with validity checks.
  • Elimination of old bank details.
• Vehicles :
  • Choice of icons that can be associated with each type of vehicle.
• Daily information bulletin for civil protection associations.
• Search dogs and other animals :
  • Possibility to associate a master.
• Messages :
  • Possibility to post messages without limitation of display time.
  • Possibility to add a subject to messages sent by email.
• Types of events :
  • New “reinforcement column” property to attach events by numbers.
• Tax certificate :
  • Generation of a tax certificate in PDF format on the personal file for members’ contributions (member management mode).
• Important interventions :
  • Ability to mark certain interventions as important (default for DCD and vital distress).
• Configuration page :
  • Reorganized into three tabs: Basic, Advanced, Security.
• Event page :
  • Staff filter per day.
  • Ability to hide skills for better readability.
• Firefighters cover page :
  • Possibility of filtering staff day and night.
• Victim reception centre added.
• Authorisations :
  • Possibility of duplicating authorisations.
• Guards in anomaly :
  • Possibility of marking an on-call as an anomaly in the event of a personnel problem.
  • The line appears in red in the table.

eBrigade 3.4

Security

• Enhanced permission control.

Customizable event types

Ability to create or modify event types, including defining:

• The name of the event type and category.
• Icon.
• Tabs to view.
• Documents to be generated.
• Statistics to be filled in.

Messages & Emails

• Possibility to send an email when a new information message is posted.
• Attachments embedded directly in the email.
• Mass mailing (support for several tens of thousands of recipients).
• Asynchronous sending via crontab.

Notifications

• Additional notification when a user’s availability has been entered.

SMS

• Support for two new SMS providers:
  • envoyersmspro.com
  • SMS Gateway Android (free solution to send up to 100 SMS messages per hour, or even more with the right Android configuration).
• Solution Requires:
  • A dedicated Android smartphone.
  • An unlimited SMS plan.
  • An ADSL box configured to accept incoming HTTP connections and redirect them to the smartphone.
• The procedure is fully documented.

Events & Materials

• Possibility to assign the material to a team on events.

Handrail

• Reading access restricted to those registered.
• Write access limited to people with the “Editor” function.

Other improvements

• New settings menu.
• Identification of the municipality by the postal code on the section page (as for the staff) – requires the loading of the .sql/zipcode.sql
• Reporting enabled for fire stations (SP).
• Notification to PS staff when the roster is ready.
• The country icon is displayed next to the phone numbers.
• New Documents/Downloads page.

eBrigade 3.3

Security

• Increased security: protection against uploads and against XSS attacks.

User Interface

• Graphic changes (tables with rounded edges).
• 12 new color themes.
• Integration of the eBrigade logo.

Web services

• Addition of Web services (users, sections, training) via soap.php.

Notifications and profiles

• Notifications can be configured by each user.

Skills and status

• Hierarchies of competences.
• Management of the Young Firefighters with new specific ranks.

Sessions and Stocks

• Configurable expiration of user sessions.
• Minimum stock on consumables.

Vehicles and Events

• Function management for vehicles engaged in events.
• On-call mode for the firefighters on duty.

Conventions and safeguards

• Addition of the legal guardian and the date of dispatch on the agreements.
• Optimization of the backup allowing a faster reloading of backups.

eBrigade 3.2

Data and departments

• Optional Postal Code Database (activation via sql/zipcode.sql).
• Departmental expense report.
• SMS accounts by department.

Security and compliance

• Terms of use to be accepted.

Miscellaneous features

• Management of clothing (clothing).
• Specific dates on the conventions.
• Deposits on quotes and invoices.

Technical and documentation

• PHP 5.6 support: replaced mysql by mysqli.
• Wiki documentation.
• FPDI upgrade.

eBrigade 3.0

Mapping and tactical situation

• Google Maps map with tactical situation (SITAC).
• GPS location of logged in users.
• Search for staff by skill on Google Maps.

Victims and interventions

• Complete first aid / medical report sheet for victims.
• Updated the types of interventions.
• Possibility of printing a PDF of the intervention sheet and the victim sheet.

Personal and historical records

• Detailed history of all changes made on a personal file.
• Better handling of homonyms when creating a personal file.

Finance and levies

• Management of transfers to members’ bank accounts.
• Registration of BICs / IBANS in addition to bank details.
• Chargebacks of direct debits in the process of being regularised (representation of the amount the following month).

Security

• Storing IP addresses in connection auditing.
• Requirement to include a special character in passwords.
• JavaScript checking for password quality.
• Password encryption of your choice:
  • MD5
  • PBKDF2 (more secure)

Hardware and consumables

• Management of consumable products (configuration, stock, consumption on events).
• Setting up vehicle types.
• Numerous new reports.

Organization of the barracks

• SPP barracks: 24/48 or 24/72 working time management.

Technical

• Reorganization of the JavaScript code.
• Removal of Prototype and full migration to jQuery.