The assignment in hand. The field in the picture.
The ArcHorizon companion app gives assigned personnel the details they need to work, a map for context, and a fast way to report status and findings. Updates return to the same incident record used by command and planning.
Start with the assignment, then stay with the narrative.
The home view centers the team’s current assignment. A compact header shows task details and a single free-text location field; the narrative feed gives the team a running account of what has happened.
Task details and map context travel together.
A team can open the full assignment for objectives, timing, supervisor, hazards, and additional instructions. The map keeps the assigned area, access, and related features close to that description.
Task detail
The fuller task record is available when the short home summary is not enough.
Map
Geometry and operational features carry through from the desktop planning and GIS workspaces.
Update the team’s position in the operation.
Status controls are available on the working screen, so the team can report movement and availability without leaving the assignment. Check-in and status are reflected in Operations.
Team status describes the resource. Task status describes progress on the assignment. Both remain visible to staff.
Capture the detail while it is still fresh.
The app places reporting actions after the live narrative so a team can document an observation at the point of work and keep the context attached to its task. Focused sheets or dialogs let the team submit a report and return to the working screen.
Record the sequence
Add a tasking, safety, critical, or general entry to the incident narrative. The category helps readers find the type of update without adding a significance scale.
Send a finding
Report a clue or observation with its location and context for intelligence review and possible follow-up.
Flag a condition
Identify a hazard that affects the team or the next assignment, and carry its location into the operational picture.
Coordinate directly
Exchange assignment-related information with the people coordinating the work.
What the team sends changes what staff can see.
The field app is a focused part of ArcHorizon. It uses the task and map prepared on desktop, then returns status and observations to the modules that need them.
Search response and planned events use the same foundation.
The companion app adapts the field view to the incident type. A search team needs its area and task details; a planned event team may need schedule and position information in the same assignment framework.
- Show the details that matter to the current event or response.
- Keep team status and field narrative in the shared record.
- Use the same desktop coordination path for both types of work.
Room to work on a tablet.
The landscape tablet view uses the additional space for an MDT-style layout: assignment, narrative, map, and actions can be read together without turning the field screen into a desktop command console.
Give each person the right view.
Field users work primarily within their team assignment. Incident members have the write actions needed for that role; external participants can be given a view-only picture. The desktop retains the broader command and administrative tools.
