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Custom Picklist Values for NERIS / +1 Codes

The NERIS report editor contains dozens and dozens of value-pickers. You can add your own custom choices to them, in the style of the old NFIRS "plus one" codes.

Base Codes

The NERIS v1 specification provides lists of "base codes" that represent various choices. There are 1,353 choices in 94 different groups, plus the county-codes list.

For example, in the "Incident Types" field, this base code :

FIRE||STRUCTURE_FIRE||ROOM_AND_CONTENTS_FIRE

...means a room fire within a structure.

There is a list of base codes for nearly every field in a NERIS report: Injury types, ignition causes, alarm types, and so on.

NFIRS Plus-One Codes

In the old NFIRS specification, a "plus one" code means an extra digit tacked-on to a base code, allowing the administrator to add more-specific versions of the base codes.

For example, NFIRS base code 111 meant a "Building fire", and so a plus-one code 1111 (111+1) might mean "Building fire in an urban high-rise", while plus-one code 1112 (111+2) could mean "Building fire in a national historic register location". Both 1111 and 1112 still count as 111 ("Building fire") and are subject to all normal validation rules for 111, yet you have the ability to differentiate between them.

AngelTrack's custom picklist system allows you to do the same thing to all the codes in the NERIS specification. You can extend any built-in choice into new more-specific choices so that your fire reports are more accurate, or more useful for analytics.

When AngelTrack later uploads your reports to a state fire database, it auto-converts all your custom choices back to their base values that the fire database understands.

Adding a Custom NERIS Picklist Value

You can add custom picklist values to any of the 94 different values-tables used within AngelTrack's NERIS fire report editor.

You'll do this in the same place as you would add a custom NEMSIS picklist value to the EMS report editor -- under the Settings page, using the "Custom Picklist Values" item. You must have Captain or Administrator privileges to use it.

You must also have an Enterprise PCR license. To learn more about that, please visit the Enterprise PCR Guide.

Follow these steps to add a new choice to a NERIS picklist:

  1. Visit the Custom Picklist Values item on the Settings page.
  2. Use the dropdown-list to find the values-table to which you would like to add  a code. (You'll see NEMSIS fields, NERIS fields, and AngelTrack fields in the list.)
  3. Click the add icon Add-Sep-21-2022-07-55-44-56-PM to display the add-item popover.
  4. Fill out the form and click save when done. The new choice will appear in the table.

Be Careful Choosing the "Reports Itself As"

Each of your custom choices extends an existing NERIS base choice. When AngelTrack transmits your fire reports to a fire database, it down-converts each custom choice back to its base choice, so that the fire database understands the data.

That means you must choose carefully which NERIS base choice your new choice will report itself as. Review all the base choices before deciding and saving, and choose the one that most nearly captures the meaning of your new choice.

Modifying a Custom Picklist Value

Altering an existing custom picklist value is easy:

  1. Under the Settings page find the Custom Picklist Values item. You must have Captain or Administrator privileges to use it. 
  2. Use the dropdown-list to find the values-table to which the choice belongs.
  3. Find the custom choice in the table and click its ID to edit it.
  4. Save when finished.

Be careful changing the meaning of a custom picklist value, because that will retroactively change the meaning of older data already recorded against the code.

Deleting a Custom Picklist Value / Deactivating a Plus-One Code

You cannot delete custom picklist values once entered into AngelTrack, so carefully consider each use-case before creating custom choices for it.

You can, however, mark any of them inactive. Any existing fire reports linked to them will remain so, but the inactive choices will not appear in the pickers for any new fire reports.