Response Plans Overview

The Patriot response plan is a powerful tool for defining how signals, categorised by their action plan should be responded to by both human operators and autonomously by the Patriot software. Response plans work hand-in-hand with Action Plans to provide a fully configurable and easily maintained alarm response system. If you are new to Patriot (or modern versions of the software) it is recommended that you begin by reading the action plan documentation. A response plan in Patriot can be summarised as an ordered list of user types (Keyholder, Site, Guard, Dealer, Police etc.) requiring some form of human operator or autonomous action (phone call, dispatch, message, etc.) when a trigger signal is received. The actual makeup of the generated response plan (ie. Which keyholders? Which Dealer?) is specific to the client who sent the trigger signal, a preview of a particular client's generate response plan can be found on the client response tab. This document focuses on how to create and edit response plans, and how a response plan is chosen for a particular signal after the action plan is found.

A standard typed response plan "Burglar" including a task assignment.

The "Burglar" response plan as generated for a client during an activation.

Response Plan Maintenance

Response plans are reusable system-wide. This is made possible by response plans being built up from types of users, rather than than the actual users and services assigned to clients and templates. If at any time a response update is required, this only needs to be done once, with the changes affecting all clients using the response plan. To update, create or remove a response plan, first open the Response plan maintenance window.

Maintenance → General → Response Plans

Press the insert button on the response plan form proper to insert a new user type into the response plan.

Press the delete button on the response plan form proper to remove the selected user type from the response plan.

Press the up arrow button to move the selected user type up one place in the response plan call order.

Press the down arrow button to move the selected user type down one place in the response plan call order.

Double click through on any user type in the response plan to open the response options pop-up menu. From this menu you can uncheck the Add To Response option to prevent all response members of the selected user type from displaying in the response plan generated when responding to an alarm. This option is useful if the pretense of response members of a certain user type are only required for the automated triggering of assignable tasks. The lower section of the form is dedicated to the assignment of tasks to the selected user type. When a task(s) is assigned to a user type, all users of that type on the generated response plan will have the assigned task(s) triggered against them. Double click through on any assigned task for further options.

Assigning Response Plans

Response plans are assigned to action plans at three tiered levels: Global, Dealer & Client. The top level, Global response is set per action plan, and recommended practice is to set this top-level response plan first. The top-level action plan applies to all clients in your database. The top-level action plan response can then be "overridden" later by assigning a response plan at the dealer (installer) or individual client level. The purpose of the three tiered response system is to minimise the amount of response plan maintainable required of operators. For more information about how and where response plans can be assigned in Patriot refer to the Response & Action Plan Overrides section of action plans and to client response tab.

Response plan selector on the action plan setting tab.

How the Response Plan is Generated

After an action plan has been chosen for a signal logged by a client, Patriot follow this procedure to generate a response plan:

1. If a By User... response plan assignment exists at the client level, this response plan is used directly, go to step 7.
2. If a By Type... response plan assignment exists at the client level, this response plan is chosen for generation, go to step 6.
3. If the client response plan template is set, then repeat steps 1 & 2 using the template as the client level response source 6.
4. If the client's dealer has a response plan assignment (requires IDA module), this response plan is chosen for generation, go to step 6.
5. If the global action plan default response plan has been set, this response plan is chosen for generation.
6. Load all users assigned to the client with a call order set (may include call list users imported from user templates) which are of the types specified by the response plan. Order the users first by response plan type order and second by user call order.
7. Trigger assigned tasks.
8. If the action plan is priority then generate an alarm and display the response plan.

Note: the following features also affect the final make-up of a generated response plan:

• User Response Filtering (Enterprise or Advanced Messaging Module) allows users to be filtered from the response plan. See Adding a New User, Advanced Settings, on the Users Tab.

Legacy Response System

When individually enabled each of these settings will appear on the action plans settings tab. Refer to the action plans documentation for a general description of each legacy response setting. The following table describes how each legacy response setting can affect response plan generation in Patriot. The descriptions make reference to the procedural steps in the How the Response Plan is Generated section of this document.