Field Notes: July 1 – August 10, 2026
A look at StationClipboard’s latest development cycle from July 1 through August 10, 2026, covering major platform redesigns, the retirement of Spaces, upcoming Incident Command capabilities, scheduling improvements, personnel and timekeeping updates, Resources/Documents, Recruiting, NERIS production readiness, and numerous security, administrative, and operational improvements.
A More Unified StationClipboard
A major focus of this development cycle has been consistency.
We’ve redesigned roughly 75 pages across the portal, improved navigation and dashboards, and continued moving each module toward a common StationClipboard experience.
Personnel, scheduling, timekeeping, documents, recruiting, training, equipment, reporting, and other department functions should feel like parts of the same platform—not separate systems that happen to share a login.
The goal is simple: if you know how to use one part of StationClipboard, the rest should feel familiar.
Spaces: Built, Tested, and Retired
Spaces was one of our larger experiments this summer.
We launched it in July as a potential communication hub for departments, with real-time chat, typing indicators, knowledge-base articles, ticket boards, mentions, retention settings, and more. We later redesigned the experience and addressed a security issue as part of that work.
After evaluating the product and how it fit into StationClipboard, we made the decision to retire Spaces on August 4.
The technology worked. The bigger question was whether it was the right fit for StationClipboard right now.
We decided it wasn’t.
Ticket functionality has been consolidated into the standalone Tickets module, and historical Spaces data has been retained.
That doesn't mean we’ve abandoned the idea of a StationClipboard communication hub. We still believe there is an opportunity to build one specifically for fire and EMS organizations. It simply needs to return at the right time, with a clearer purpose and a better overall experience.
For now, we're focusing on the foundation.
Incident Command: Coming Soon
One of the newest areas of development is Incident Command.
Important: Incident Command is not currently available to departments and remains in active development.
We’re building it around the realities of managing an incident, with planned capabilities including:
- Live incident synchronization
- Unit and personnel assignments
- Configurable benchmarks
- Event timelines
- PAR accountability
- Emergency declarations
- Incident templates
- Interactive mapping
- Preplan information
The goal is to give command staff a live operational picture while an incident is taking place.
This is an area we’re taking seriously. Incident Command needs to be fast, reliable, and easy to understand when things are moving quickly. We still have development and testing ahead before it is ready for department use.
We’ll have more to share as it gets closer.
Scheduling Gets a Major Overhaul
Scheduling has gone through two significant development cycles this summer.
The latest overhaul consolidated the old scheduling pages into one unified workspace built around actual staffing.
The new experience includes:
- Drag-and-drop staffing
- Shift templates
- Rotation patterns
- Member qualifications and positions
- Schedule validation
- Publication versioning
- Availability
- Coverage callouts
The goal is to support the way real departments operate—whether they are career, volunteer, combination, or part-time.
Time Clock, Kiosk & Personnel Operations
The Time Clock and Kiosk systems also received substantial work.
Members can punch in using a kiosk PIN, select assigned jobs where required, and work within department-configured capacity limits. Administrators have additional controls, including overrides and historical snapshots.
Kiosks were redesigned to provide a cleaner experience, including member photos and job information, and departments can now prevent clock-ins when required acknowledgments are still pending.
We’ve also continued expanding personnel administration.
Officer Hub now provides structured case management for sensitive personnel matters, including:
- Controlled documents
- Versioned statements
- Acknowledgments
- Legal holds
- Case templates
- Permission-filtered reporting
HR Info has also been promoted from an Officer Hub feature into its own optional module.
Resources, Signing & Recruiting
The former Policies module is now Resources/Documents.
The change reflects what departments actually manage: policies, SOPs, SOGs, forms, manuals, training documents, and other important records.
We’ve also continued developing digital signing, including mobile signing, stamped and flattened PDFs, text fields, checkboxes, and improvements for large documents and Safari.
The former Applications Flow has also been renamed Recruiting, bringing the terminology closer to the actual process departments use to bring new members into the organization.
NERIS: Moving Toward Production
NERIS has remained a major development priority.
We’ve continued work on:
| Area | Development |
|---|---|
| Environments | Training, testing, and production readiness |
| Reporting | Dynamic report writer and modular sections |
| Submissions | Scheduled submission engine |
| Auditing | Correction and review workflows |
| Incidents | Attachments and additional reporting data |
| Hazards | Expanded hazard information |
| Authentication | OAuth integration |
| Enrollment | Department enrollment workflow |
The objective is to make NERIS reporting feel like a natural part of StationClipboard rather than another system officers have to manage separately.
This is an area where accuracy matters more than speed. We’re taking the time to make sure the integration is ready for real department use.
More Behind the Scenes
Several other improvements have moved forward during this period, including:
- Two-factor authentication with backup codes and administrative reset
- Administrator impersonation with audit logging
- Onboarding for new members
- Quartermaster with low-stock alerts and automatic stock deduction
- Emergency contacts and improved personnel field permissions
- Mobile push notifications
- Dashboard customization
- Improved onboarding and getting-started experiences
- Ticket analytics
- PSTrax integration
- Portal-wide design improvements
Some of these changes are highly visible. Others are the kind of work members may never notice—but they make the platform more reliable and easier to manage.
What Comes Next
The biggest takeaway from this development cycle isn’t simply how many features we’ve added.
It’s the direction StationClipboard is taking.
We want to build software that helps departments run better without creating more administrative work.
Chiefs are busy. Officers are busy. Members are busy.
The software should work for them.
That means some things will be added, some will be rebuilt, and some will be retired when we determine they don’t belong.
Spaces is one example. It was built, tested, and ultimately retired because we didn’t believe it was the right fit at this point.
Incident Command is another example in the opposite direction: it’s an idea we believe has significant potential, but we’re taking the time to build it correctly before putting it in the hands of departments.
That’s what development looks like.
From July 1 through August 10, StationClipboard has taken another major step forward—and we’re just getting started.
— Levi Dandeneau
Director of Development
StationClipboard