Category: Optional Modules

How To Export Microchip Data

To export animal medical information, such as microchip data, select the Medical Exports link on the Animal Reports screen. On the Medical Exports screen, select the treatment date range, the treatment category (such as Permanent ID or Vaccinations) and the corresponding treatment item (such as Avid or Rabies Vaccination).  Select any additional options that are … Continue Reading

Wildlife Status

A user-customizable Wildlife Status select list is available for wildlife records.  This allows you to define custom attributes for wildlife records, which might be used as notices to other users or to capture additional data for statistical  or reporting purposes. Wildlife Status items can be enabled/disabled, defined to appear in the Status bar, and can … Continue Reading

Wildlife Species

North American wildlife species are included by default.  If you would like to customize the wildlife species that are displayed to your users, visit Wildlife >> Wildlife Settings >> Wildlife Common Name and edit the Status for those species that should be displayed by either checking or unchecking the Inactive field. 

Disposition Classes

Beginning with version 2.01, disposition classes were added so that dispositions could be grouped by the current status of an animal.  This setting allows custom dispositions to be categorized by purpose and streamlines reporting and data discrepancy identification. The 4 disposition classes are Intake, Interim, Final and Placed. The default dispositions are categorized as follows: … Continue Reading

Animal Dispositions

Dispositions track an animal’s status history within your organization. How your organization processes dispositions should be documented in your SOPs. There are 12 disposition types included by default in Shelterops.  Dispositions are assigned a class in order to identify whether the disposition is an initial disposition, an interim disposition, or a final disposition.  The primary … Continue Reading

Tags Overview

The optional Tags module facilitates the sales of numbered ID tags which track both owner and animal information, versus sales of traditional ID tags with engraved owner/animal information. The optional Tags module integrates with the Products module.  The price defined for an ID Tag in the Products module pre-populates the fee amount in the New … Continue Reading

Custom Reports/Forms

You can create custom forms, reports and other printed documents for use in this module by adding your new file to the /aco/custom folder. Adding custom files requires basic knowledge of PHP programming language. Use the custom_sample.inc.php file in the Animals module as reference on creating additional documents. ShelterOps will display custom files in the … Continue Reading

Animal Control Setup

Incident Location Assignment The primary setting that must be configured is “Incident Assignment”, located under Animal Control >> Settings. This setting determines whether incidents are assigned to a single location automatically as they are created, or if users should have the option to select the location to which the incident will be assigned (if your … Continue Reading