Task 3.6: Limit Court List

Purpose:  Limits the drop-down list for appearance court to the courts used by your agency.  This step is optional.  Omitting it will cause all the courts in the violation county to appear in the drop-down list. It also can be used as a temporary replacement of your court fee changes.

NOTE: even if you change your court fees in this table please contact badgertracs@dot.wi.gov to change the master table.

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Requirements: TraCS Office computer, web client and system admin account.

•  Start TraCS. 

•  Sign in with a System Admin Account.

•  Select the Tools tab on the ribbon menu.

•  Open the Courts utility form:

  • From the Tools ribbon menu, click the Violation button.

  • Select Courts.

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Add Court

• Click the blue bar labeled

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Note: the Delete Group button will delete the current group it is above.

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• Enter the requested data.

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• Verify that the correct TraCS Agency Number for your agency appears.   (If you support multiple agencies in the same TraCS database, you will want to login as a system admin for the agency you want to configure.

• Select the court your agency uses from the list in the Court field.

• After the first time the group will auto open if data is entered

• The court routing code will pre-fill for your agency.  You should not need to change the routing code.  If you feel you have special circumstances that warrant changing the routing, please contact Badger TraCS for advice. Note: Do not override the routing for Circuit Courts.

• You may override the municipal court cost if it is incorrect, but please notify Badger TraCS with the correct court cost.  Circuit court costs may not be overwritten

•  Click the validate button  to validate the form and add/delete/update the Courts to TraCS.

Delete from Table

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• Click the blue bar labeled Delete Court to open groups.

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• Choose the Court to Delete

• After the first time the group will auto open if data is entered

• when all deletions are entered click Validate to remove them from the table.

Modify the Court Costs  

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• Click the blue bar labeled Update Court to open groups.

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• Choose the Court to Update

• After the first time the group will auto open if data is entered

• You may override the municipal court cost if it is incorrect, but please notify Badger TraCS with the correct court cost.  Circuit court costs may not be overwritten

• when all updating is complete click Validate to remove them from the table.

Modify Court Routing

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• Click the blue bar labeled Update Court to open groups.

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• Choose the Court to Update

• After the first time the group will auto open if data is entered

• You may change the routing type if it has changed, but please notify Badger TraCS with the correct routing. 

• when all updating is complete click Validate to remove them from the table.

After updating table

• User accounts for all Office are updated as soon as you click Apply.  However, a distribution will need to be created and run in order to push the changes to mobile clients. 

• Mobile Clients

  • Regular system – requires a distribution to get changes sent to the Field units

    • Complete Task 4.1 to make a new distribution. (Note: for web services agency see task 4.9 for alternate to running a distribution)

  • Web Services System – set up with a batch server can set up a automatic system to distribute table updates

  • Hosted Environment – All local tables (e.g. Ordinance, court schedule, etc.) will be updated by the agency, which can be done using any web client. All table updates are due by the End of the Day before the tables are updated. Distribution of the updated tables will be processed and ready early every morning. Distribution will run the next time the user logs in and logs off if distribution is set to automatic download.