Specifying Incident Characteristics
To specify incident characteristics:
1. See Accessing Incidents.
The list of incidents you have declared appears in the edit area.
2. In the Characteristics page of the incident properties, fill in the following fields:
• Macro-incident: to connect the current incident to an existing or new Macro-Incident.
For more details, see Managing Macro-Incidents.• Status: Indicates current status of the incident in the incident management process.
The Status is grayed because it is managed automatically by the associated incident workflow. For more details, see Incident Management Process.• Declaration Date, Detection Date and current Occurrence Date, which constitute incident key dates.
To specify a date, use the calendar at the right of the field.Incident declaration and detection dates can differ, the declaration date being later than the detection date.• Nature: you may enter the nature (financial or not) of the incident.
• Near-miss: check box to be selected if it is a near-miss incident.
• Description is a comment describing the incident.
See also: Recording Incident-Related Amounts