Video Tutorials
Video playback requires a high speed broadband
internet copnnection. If your download speed of the video during playback
is slower than the video being displayed you may notice that the video
pauses. To prevent this annoying stopping and starting, simply click
on the ‘pause/play’ button located on the lower left part
of the video screen to pause the video for a minute or two before resuming
playback, this allows the video download to catch up and bypass the
playback.
Criminal Reports and the Master Name File - View the
first in a series of videos. This video titled 'Criminal Reports and
the Master Name File' demonstrates the ways to properly enter names
into your criminal reports. Running slightly over 14 minutes the video
demonstrates the entering of a person the first time and then creating
a new master record from the initial entry. The final minutes show the
fast entry process of using a master record to create and automatically
populate a newly created incident name record.

The new Container Supplement - The second in a series
of videos. CrimeSoft Advanced 9.5 features a completely redesigned document
and file storage supplement called the “Container Supplement”.
This supplement file can store Microsoft Word and Excel docs and files,
graphic and PDF docs and files, auto-expanding full screen movies (MPEG,
WMA, AI, QT and more) and JPG, TIFF, BMP, WMA photo support, sounds
and recordings, if it can be created on a PC it can now be stored in
CrimeSoft. Plus OLE support for on screen editing via object linking
and embedding, and newly designed file printouts.
This new supplement file allows unlimited documents, files, photos,
movies and more in each record!
Easier and faster to use, with a great newly designed interface. Length
is 12 Min 43 Sec.

The Code Lookup File - The third in a series of videos.
This video titled 'The Code Lookup File' demonstrates this time saving
feature and the ways to properly use the code lookup file for entering
crime, clasification, and criminal codes into your criminal reports.
Running 9 and a half minutes the video shows the many ways you can enter
data into this section. The final minutes discusses the various ways
to populate the lookup file beginning with a quick simple single entry
and ending with a demonstration on how to import all your data at once
from a codification file.
Passwords and Accounts - The fourth in a series of
training videos. This video titled 'CrimeSoft Passwords' shows the log
on procedures and using the password setup utility to quickly setup
a user account. After the setup is complete the video goes into the
administrative functions and procedures for resetting an account (stripping
out the password).
The final part of the video demonstrates a CrimeSoft program where
the administrator has turned on the optional 'Record Locking' function
(a function that locks a record after it is printed).
By using the quick Re-log on script (which enables you to log on to
a specific file with a different level access account without having
to re-log on to the entire program) he is able log on as a supervisor
and quickly toggle a record that was locked open and/or closed.
Running time: 7 Minutes
Fixing the CFS Line Item Blotter Link for multi-users
only- The first maintenance video. This video covers the resetting of
the 'Line Item Blotter' report button.
A call to our tech support uncovered an inproper link assigned to this
button. Instead of displaying the line item blotter report in the CFS
(Calls For Service) file, it was displaying the full blotter report.
This video gives easy to follow instructions on how to reset the button,
directing it to the proper report. the whole process takes only about
2 minutes to accomplish.
Note: Resetting the button requires the full version of FileMaker Pro
which all multi users have installed on their workstations, single users
(not having the full version of FileMaker Pro) have been notified and
will receive instead a replacement file with full instructions on how
to implement the change.
Note2: This reset is already incorporated into releases shipped after
2-24-2010 and in Version 10.
Running time: 2 min 50 sec.
Fixing the CFS Line Item Blotter Link for single user
licenses only- The maintenance video with instructions for impementing
the new CFS file. This video covers the installation and importing of
files as well as the link to download the new CFS file. Click on the
link below.
http://www.crimesoft.com/cfsfix/help.htm
More videos are planned in the coming weeks and months, if you would
like to see a video on a particular subject please let us know.