The Investigate page in the Solink mobile app allows you to organize events and clips into investigation cases for review, collaboration, and reporting.
To access investigations, open the side menu (☰) and tap Investigate:
Note: See the web app version of the Investigations guide for information on how to use Investigations outside of the mobile app.
Investigations Overview
The Investigations page features the following functions/sections:
Create a new investigation. See Create New Investigation for more information.
Search by name for investigations.
Open and Archived investigations. Open investigations are considered active and in review to help you stay organized, while Archived investigations are closed and no longer in review. See Open and Archived Investigations for more information.
List of all investigations.
Create New Investigation
To create a new investigation:
Tap New.
Choose to create a Public or Private investigation.
Public: Everyone in your organization with access to the Investigations page can view and contribute to the case. Use this for collaborative investigations.
Private: Only you, the creator, can see the case. Use this for sensitive or confidential work. Note that private investigations cannot be shared with specific people; to give others access, change the visibility to Public.
Provide a name and description for the investigation.
Tap Save to create the investigation. Next, you can add events and clips to this investigation. Follow the steps in the following section for more information.
Add Events and Clips to Investigations
You can add events and clips to investigations to help you stay organized and review footage easily (assuming you have the correct access based on whether the investigation is public or private).
To add events or clips to an investigation:
Tap the investigation from the Investigations page.
Tap the All tab.
Tap Add Event or Add Clip, then select from the list of events/clips the footage you want in this investigation.
Tap Add Event/Add Clip to add the selected items.
Edit Investigations
You can edit an investigation if it is Public or if it is Private and you created it. Tap on an investigation to edit it.
Select Edit Details to change any of the following:
Visibility (Public/Private)
Name
Description
Investigation Details
Tap on an investigation to review details, including:
Description
Date created and last updated
Created by
Open and Archived Investigations
Open investigations are active cases you are working on and appear under the Open tab.
Archived investigations are closed and appear under the Archived tab.
To archive an investigation:
Open the investigation (tap it).
On the Details tab, tap Archive and confirm.
The investigation moves to the Archived tab.
Note: To make an investigation active again, open it from Archived and tap Reopen.
Note: Only the person who created the investigation can archive it or reopen it. This applies to both Public and Private investigations.
See Investigations for more information on the web platform version of this feature.