When training at a group event, there may be exercises that don’t apply to your dog. For example, the event might include a detection exercise but you have a patrol dog. Or perhaps there’s a patrol tracking exercise but your patrol dog doesn’t track. In the past, you would need to complete all exercises at an event for each of your dogs in PACKTRACK. For each exercise that doesn’t apply to a specific dog you would select the option “Did Not Perform – Not Applicable to Dog”. With this release we’re introducing K9 type attributes. These new settings allow you to specify the types of exercises that apply to your dog. All other exercise types will be automatically ignored.
When you first log in after this update you’ll be asked to review your dog configuration. From the new Dogs page, click the Edit icon for each of your dogs to open the editor interface. Choose the Edit Details option and scroll down in the right pane to select any Patrol Types and Detection Odor Types that apply. Only exercises of the types that you select will be visible for completion by this dog in the future. However, changes to these settings will not affect the applicability of past exercises that you've completed.
These changes affect both patrol and detection dogs. For example, if a patrol dog only has the Obedience and Apprehension patrol types selected then they will not have the option to complete a future patrol Tracking exercise or any detection exercises. This applies to exercise target odors for detection dogs as well. For example, if a detection dog only has the Drugs odor type selected then they will not have to complete exercises at future events which only contain Explosive type target odors. They also won’t have to complete any patrol exercises. If you want your dog to complete all exercise types at every event then feel free to select all of the patrol and detection odor types for each of your dogs.
Once all of your dog’s types are set, PACKTRACK will only require you to complete a training record for the specific dogs that match the exercise type. If you have no dogs that match an exercise type then the exercise will show in the list with a new icon indicating that the exercise doesn’t apply. In the example below, a handler with a patrol tracking dog does not have to complete the detection exercise from the same event. UPDATE: Note that the screenshot below is out of date and the interface looks different now.
