Capturing Map Images as Landscape-Oriented Reports

Users can generate quick landscape-oriented reports for images captured map displays. When you capture an image, you must name it and provide a brief description of what the image contains. If you provide a Report Name in addition, two things will occur when you click Capture Image:

• The image is saved to the Images folder in incident content for use in a decision, and
• A report with the name you chose is saved to the Reports tab.

Reports created this way are landscape-oriented and contain only the image you captured, unless you choose to customize the report and add additional text or images. Reports are editable in WFDSS until published, but can be downloaded and shared as .pdfs at any time.

Landscape-oriented reports display larger map images than decisions (decisions are portrait-oriented) and can help you quickly share maps that contain timely and critical information like fire behavior analysis outputs, names and locations of M.A.P.s, etc.

You can capture images without creating reports, but you can't create a report without also entering an image label and capturing the image.

To capture map images as landscape-oriented reports:

1. Go to one of the following:

• Select Situation > select the Incident Name and click Assess Situation. From the left menu, click the Map sub-tab and select the appropriate layers from the LayerSwitcher.
• Select Analysis > select the Incident/Analysis Name and click View Information.The information for the Incident/Analysis Name appears. From the left menu click Analysis Map and select the appropriate layers from the Layerswitcher.

1. Click to capture the image. For the best image view, do not use full screen mode to capture the image unless you want the image compressed to fit the .pdf format.
2. Enter the Image Label and any appropriate Description.
3. Enter the Report Name not using any special characters except an apostrophe or backslash.
4. Click Capture Image.A message saying that the application is generating a report containing that image appears at the top of the page.
5. Select Reports from the Incident sub-menu. A few seconds after capturing the image, the report name displays in the Report List.
6. Click the report name in the Report List and click .PDF. The Report Daft PDF page appears.
7. Click Download Draft to review the draft report.
8. Click Open on the file download box. The draft .pdf report opens in landscape mode.
9. Add text to the image using the Text Editor if needed.
10. Click Save to save the changes when you are done.

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Last updated on 9/27/2016 2:20:10 PM.

 

In This Section Reports To capture map images as landscape-oriented reports

See Also Setting Report List Preferences Creating Delegation of Authority Reports Creating Management Action Point (M.A.P.) Reports Creating New Reports Creating Custom Reports Editing Reports Editing Landscape-Oriented Reports Deleting Map Images as Landscape-Oriented Reports Publishing a Report Viewing Reports Viewing Information/History about a Report and Changing a Report's Name Downloading Published Decisions and Reports About Report Templates Guidelines for Creating Template Types Using the Template Editor Creating a New Report Template Editing and/or Copying an Existing Report Template Viewing Information/History about a Report Template Viewing a Report Template Report Publishing a Template Report Deleting a Report Template Downloading an HTML File and Printing a Decision or Custom Report

Reference Field Descriptions Glossary Resources Spatial Data Reference Landscape Data Source Reference Relative Risk Reference Organization Assessment Reference Fire Behavior Reference About the WFDSS Decision Editors