Often it is necessary for dispatchers to have a wide variety of resource files at their disposal. Crimestar CAD provides you with a handy tool to recall these special information resource files and display their contents on the screen in CAD. You can create these resource files as simple ASCII text files giving them an ‘.SI’ extension and place them on your system, either in the \crimestar folder (or location where Crimestar is run from) or in your data path.
To activate a Special Information file using the following command line syntax: SI.FILENAME
Example: Suppose you created a special information file named “HA.SI” which documented the protocol a dispatcher should use when receiving an emergency medical call of a Heart Attack. The dispatcher would simply enter “SI.HA” on the command line of the CAD control panel and the special information text included in that file would be displayed.
If you are unsure of the name of the Special Information file, you may enter a “?” instead of the file name and CAD will provide you with a windows file dialog box showing you a list of the files with a .SI suffix.
Example: SI.?
* By default the local \Crimestar folder and data path are searched in an attempt to locate Special Information files. You can use the SI_FILE_PATH= enry in the [CAD] section of the Crimestar INI files to specify a specific path that should be used to locate Special Information files.