There is support for shortcut keys, including custom definitions of short cut keys to run "use cases". Some sites have done quite a bit with these.

Use cases are not quite the same as commands, though you can create custom "one shot" use cases, i.e.use cases that run some functionality in the background rather than bringing up a form, or changing the layout of the user interface.

Still, there are some things that can't be scripted into a use case, and there is no command line parser in MPS. All that said, if you added a parser and a form that allows input of use case identifiers it's probably possible to do a number of things from a "command line" in MPS -- but again, it runs counter to the expected use of MPS in a vehicle and is not in the product's vision.

(Added: There's also no notion in MPS of "selected" event or unit the way there is in Dispatcher, so a user wouldn't be able to select an event and then issue a command line that worked on that event (or unit). With the 9.4 Multi-map operations can be done on a particular event or unit by clicking its icon and a pocket menu of actions pops up. That set of actions is customizable.)

We've been using Police mobile computing since 1993 and users are slowly, very very slowly, learning how to do business without a commandline. They feel they are much slower than they were in the past. Using mousepad, scrollbars, buttons, listbox, monitors, ... They struggle with it.

And if they are using the Multi-map (leaflet based map), that they consider customizing frequent operations into pop-up menu on the map. This is a little harder, but can make some operations quite quick.

I'm also curious which site? There are dozens of MPS customers and most have made the adjustment after doing some configuration / customization.

We're from Quebec City Police Department  (this explain why my english is not that good)

We are using 9.3 MR5

What do you mean by Multi-Map?

We have add some shortcut keys but it seems to be not enough. I imagine that one day they'll forgot the old cad... :)

thanks for your help

The user also has more interaction capability with the icons on the map, as I mentioned. And those can be configured specially for a site. (They still have to have the CAD Map, also, but can flip back and forth between the maps. Some sites are using the MultiMap most of the time.)

So as I understand, I should forget commandline... :(

Thanks Chip