FireShed - Rural Fire Brigade Station Management

FireShed demo
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Australian volunteer Rural Fire Brigade station software
Online Version: 0.11.0 Beta Downloadable Version: 0.10.25 Beta
Copyright © 2003 - 2010 Steve Davis

Welcome to FireShed - Open Source volunteer Rural Fire Brigade station management software that is now being successfully used by around 100 Brigades across Queensland, elsewhere in Australia and New Zealand.

FireShed software is an ongoing work in progress and has been since 2003. It has been written by Steve Davis primarily for the Mudgeeraba Rural Fire Brigade, Gold Coast, Queensland. Following a complete re-write during 2007 it is now available for use by other Brigades.
Rural Fires Bulletin - August 2007

It is now possible to use FireShed online instead of on your station computer. It is secure and password protected and you will access it at something like YourBrigade.FireShed.com. This is available for a nominal annual hosting charge if I feel like imposing it. So far I haven't re-billed any Brigade. I am not interested in taking money from individual Brigades.

When you try the demo, you are actually using the online version of FireShed. The application code is shared by all hosted brigades but each has its own database to keep info private and secure. Note the user name and password for the demo are both demo.

Feel free to have a play with with the demo version including changing data. The demo database will be reset regularly so any changes you make will eventually be lost.

If you are interested in using FireShed at your brigade: Be sure to register so I can keep you informed of updates etc. Then download, install it and use it. Be very clear that if you don't register I don't offer support as you won't hear about updates.

FireShed is now very stable and since being mentioned in the Bulletin (above) is in use by a rapidly growing number of Brigades.

If you find some sort of problem or if you have an idea to improve the software, please submit a bug report. There is a link at the top of every page.

Updates:

0.11.0 Online but still under development
- Added "officer" option for ranks to simplyfy code when officers are identified Users will need to check all ranks under tools menu
  - Updated callout lists to match
- Some pages were outside the security net - fixed. Please advise if this causes any problems
- Added option to show which member types are active to make displaying only active member types more efficient. Users will need to check all member types under tools menu
- Fixed bug that likley caused wrong or no member details to appear when editing...how did it ever work?
0.10.26 Download
- Extended date ranges for popup calendar to allow for new FireShed users to add older data.
0.10.25
- Imlemented procedure so that ranks, member types, incident locations etc can't be deleted if they are being used
- Fixed bug that prevented active incidents being listed when updating member to incident from specifically from the view member page - thanks Phil
0.10.24
- Extended date range for date member joined
- Moved "restore defaults" button above "save" button to clarify need to save afterwards on menu configuration page
- Changed label QFRS ID# to just ID# as Fireshed is now being used beyond Queensland
0.10.23
- Changed default that ranks are visible instead of hidden
0.10.22
- Fixed missing fields in database that broke adding a new rank.
- Upgraded menu
0.10.21
- On add asset page date purchased only had 2 years available. Extended to 20 years.
0.10.20
- Changed activity add page so that if no members can't add
- Updated copyright notice through site
0.10.19
- Fixed bug preventing activities being added
- Added serial number to asset choose, view and printout
0.10.18
- Added a comment field to activities. Also shows any comments on activity menu.
0.10.17
- Fixed layout issue if person had many training modules
0.10.16
- Fixed minor bug in view asset page that showed a "more" link even if no assets in system
- Fixed bug on participation report that only affected online Brigades
0.10.15
- Page to schedule members at incident was missing...no idea why.
- Removed some online security files I had accidentally included that popped a login window.
0.10.14
- Fixed view assets page so that column sort works
- Removed "delete supplier" from menu to prevent bug where deleting supplier with assets still attached messes up database
0.10.13
- A bug in the way the calendar module worked caused intermittent problems with FireFox. Workaround included in files that use calendar.
0.10.12
- Typo in menu prevented editing or deleting supplier
- New page to print asset list by location (assets menu )
- Ability to add date of training session on add member training module page
- Ability to edit date of training session (members menu)
- New method of updating database should be more reliable
0.10.11.1
- Fixed minor typo in error notification on asset add page
0.10.11
- Changed member first aid expiry date in the pop-up calendar to 4 years in future instead of 2
- Added option to show all members or just active members on group training add page
- Fix for asset not displaying if no supplier selected when asset was originally added.
- Force choose supplier and location when adding asset
0.10.10
- Had a stats link buried in the menu code. It may have caused computers to attempt to connect to the internet. Have now modified code so it is hidded if not hosted.
- Created the first patch file to fix this rather than force a complete download.
0.10.9
- Fixed error that cause attempts to reopen a closed incident to break
- Edit contact page was showing first name in phone number field
0.10.8
- It seems that there were no items in the asset condition list and there was no way to add/edit/delete them. This version adds the conditions for any new installs and also puts them into the database for existing installs. There is now also a new menu under TOOLS called asset conditions where they can be configured.
- Delete now redundant incidentassign.php as the correctly named script is installed with this version.
0.10.7
- Page had wrong name. Instead of an upgrade, a simple fix is to rename C:/program files/FireShed/incidentassign.php to C:/program files/FireShed/memberassign.php
0.10.6
- There were a few pages that had an identical bug associated with creating the log file - I had tested it with one item added or edited but it broke with multiple. This is now fixed.
0.10.5
- New page: member participation report at bottom of members menu. Choose the date range and it will print a list of how many activities each member has attended. Requested by a Brigade that has a rule about participation frequency.
- Fixed bug that prevented more than one member being added when editing an activity
- Fixed bug that was preventing assets from displaying
0.10.4
- New page to apply training sessions to multiple mebers at once. (under members and tools>training)
- Add Activity page now has option to show either all or only active members
0.10.3
- Fix in 0.10.2 still wasn't quite right
- Included "activity type" field on edit incident page.
0.10.2
- Fixed secuity related bug that prevented members being edited
0.10.1.1
- When login page loads, cursor now focusses on username so ready to type
0.10.1
- Edit member rank had a typo and and called wrong field
- Install now does a restart of computer to resolve some server startup issues.
0.10.0
- Added security layer - see help > security for more details
- Added add/edit/delete users with access levels
- Added logging of all changes
- Fixed bug where person who was scheduled for incident, when assigned, remained scheduled
- Fixed bug where when changing person't buddy to NONE they weren't properly deleted from buddy list.
- Removed "delete member" option. Even if someone leaves Brigade their records should be kept.
- Removed redundant training fields from database
- For consistancy, changed appearance of some pages where member lists ran alphabetically across columns and others ran down columns. Now all run down columns.
- Fixed a few other bugs I found while testing.

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