Edit the lists officers and civilians pick from

Lots of boxes in the CAD are picked from a list: the caution flags an officer puts on a name, the licences the DMV issues, the reasons for a field interview, the colours suggested for a character's eyes. Every one of those lists belongs to your community, so you can make them fit your server instead of a US police department.

Most of them are on the Records page. Evidence types are on the Evidence page.

Before you start#

You need the Set up the CAD: call types, statuses, penal code, designs and AOP permission.

Flags, licences and restrictions#

These four lists are at the bottom of the Records page.

1. Open your control panel and click CAD settings in the sidebar.
2. Click Records & courts along the top, then Records.
3. Scroll down to the list you want.

Add an entry#

1. Fill in the fields at the bottom of the list's card.
2. Click Add.

Edit or delete an entry#

1. Click Edit next to the entry.
2. Change the fields and click Save, or click Delete and confirm.

What happens when you delete depends on the list. A deleted flag or restriction comes off everyone who had it. A deleted licence type leaves licences people already hold on file.

Load the starter entries#

Caution flags for people and licence types are filled in for you once, when the CAD is first set up. Vehicle flags and licence restrictions start empty. Any of these lists that's empty has a Load starter button on its card. Click it to add the starter entries. It only works while the list is empty.

If you delete every entry on a list, it stays empty until you add your own or click Load starter.

The starter licence types are Driver licence, Motorcycle licence, Commercial licence, Firearms licence, Hunting licence, Fishing licence, Boating licence and Pilot licence. Driver, motorcycle and commercial carry points.

Plain lists, one per line#

Further down the Records page are lists you edit as plain text, one entry per line.

1. Find the list.
2. Type one entry per line. Delete a line to remove it.
3. Click Save list under that list.

Each entry can be up to 40 characters, and repeats are removed. Renaming an entry leaves cards and registrations already on file as they were.

The detail suggestions are only suggestions. People can still type something that isn't on the list.

Evidence types and storage#

1. Click Records & courts, then Evidence.
2. Edit Types (what officers pick when they log an item) or Storage locations (suggested when logging and transferring) one per line.
3. Click Save list.

Officers can still type a storage location that isn't on the list.

The record settings on the same page#

The top of the Records page holds the settings for what a character's file contains. Click Save settings after changing any of them.

Something not working?#

There's no Load starter button on a list. The list already has entries. The button only shows on an empty list.

It says "Add at least one, one per line." A plain list can't be saved empty. Type at least one entry.

It says "Keep it to 30." (or another number) That list has a limit on entries. Remove some lines and save again.

It says "Keep each one under 40 characters." One of your lines is too long. Shorten it.

It says "Use # for digits and A for letters, with enough of them for at least 100,000 numbers." The ID format is too short or uses other characters. Add more # or A, for example ###-##-####.

It says "Pick the licence a firearm needs." You ticked A licence is needed to register a firearm but didn't choose a licence. Pick one in Licence a firearm needs.

It says "Pick which records need approval." You chose Records go to a supervisor for approval first but didn't tick Citation, Written warning or Arrest. Tick at least one.