Badger TraCS Guides
Emergency Detention
Emergency Detention
Emergency Detention Coming Fall of 2025
Form Design
The form contains 9 groups:
How to:
Document Group
The form contains one Document group as shown below.
Individual Group
Each form contains one Individual Group.
Form Mechanic fields (fields that trigger other actions)
Location Group
Summary Group
Each form contains one Summary Group.
Form Mechanic fields (fields that trigger other actions)
Witness Group
This section contains information about witnesses to the emergency detention. There should be a Witness group for each witness to the emergency detention. If you want to add or subtract a Witness group, see Adding or Deleting Groups.
Signature Group
There is one Signature Group on the Emergency Detention form. It is used for the informing the accused reports and is the officers signature on that report. This field was added Fall of 2023
There are two options for the signature group:
Ink Signature
Ink signature allows the user to write their signature via the touch screen or your mouse cursor.
Tablet Signature
If you have a device to plug into your MDC where they can sign from, you can sign via the Tablet Signature option. Please know this needs to be configured by your TraCS Administrator in the TraCS Configuration Manager DLLs.
Description Group
Each form contains one Description Group.
Agency Group
Attachment Group
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