STARS

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Security Tools And Reporting System
STARS for Windows is a complete package of forms, reporting, statistical and graphing tools designed for U.S.Navy police and fire departments. STARS is in use at more than 70 US Navy commands worldwide to automate the processing of the following frequently used security forms:
OPNAV 5527/25
OPNAV 5527/19
OPNAV 5580/1
OPNAV 5527/2
OPNAV 5527/3
 Communications Log
Desk Journal
Incident/Complaint Report (ver.6/98)
Voluntary Statement
Waiver of Rights
STARS also manages your personnel roster, housing lists, vehicle and weapons registration, traffic citations and field interviews. In effect, STARS consists of nine separate programs which work together to maintain a set of related databases:


Communications Log
Desk Journal
Incident Report

Personnel Roster
Housing List
Vehicle Registration

Weapons Registration
Traffic Citations
Field Interviews

Windows interface / System requirements

STARS is a fully Windows-implemented program, with all the WYSIWYG/GUI features that you would expect from a Windows application, such as mouse support and cut/paste between forms and applications. STARS works on all versions of Windows, including 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, etc. The hardware requirements are:

Absolute minimum requirements 386, 20mb hard disk space free, 4mb RAM, Windows 95 Until you get a better computer, you can get by with this configuration, but you will not like the slow performance.
Minimum practical configuration 486/66, 100mb hard disk space free, 16mb RAM, Windows 98 This is an OK configuration, particularly for a standalone installation or a dispatch desk. The speed and performance will be acceptable.
Recommended configuration Pentium/233, 200mb hard disk space free, 32mb RAM, Windows NT/2000/XP With this configuration, you'll be able to get your work done quickly and make good use of the program's capabilities to jump between different modules.

You'll also need a printer, of course. Any graphics printer for which you have a Windows printer driver is acceptable. This includes most dot matrix, deskjet and laserjet printers manufactured in the past 10 years. There are, however, wide ranges in performance and speed. The new NIBRS Incident Report is highly graphics intensive. For printing this report, you will want to have a modern laserjet printer designed for processing and printing graphic images.

Standalone or Networked

You can install STARS for Windows in either a stand-alone configuration or in a networked environment. The installation procedure is roughly the same. At each computer that will use STARS, run the SETUP program to copy the VB support files (DLLs and OCXs) to the local hard disk. Specify either a local or networked path to install STARS.

If you use STARS on several standalone computers, you may occasionally want to copy your data from one computer to another. This can be done by means of Export and Import utilities built into STARS.

STARS has been tested successfully on all versions of Windows and Microsoft networks. Record and file locking built into the program allows multiuser access to the data files.

Upgrading from STARS for DOS

STARS for Windows has a special import function that will allow you to import most of your STARS for DOS data directly into your new program. This import function will allow you to convert all your CommLog, Desk Journal, Personnel, Housing, Vehicles, Weapons, Traffic and Interview data in a matter of minutes. You will also be able to import your Status list, Officer table, QuickText and several key configuration tables. This import feature will save you a lot of time.

Unfortunately, you will not be able to import any of your ICR data. The data structure required by the new Incident Report is so radically different from the structure used in STARS for DOS that no ICR data import is possible. Thus, if you have any open Incident Reports that you have created in STARS for DOS, you will want to keep your installation of STARS for DOS active at least until you have closed these open cases. You will open new cases in STARS for Windows.

Important note: In order to use the STARS for Windows import function, you must be running version 1.62 of STARS for DOS. This is very important so please check your version of STARS for DOS before proceeding. If you do not have version 1.62, please download this latest version and the accompanying Administrator's Guide from this web site. Version 1.62 of STARS for DOS includes many new features that have been added during the past year.