Glossary

Active Search

An active search is a search you set up for a type of entity. It runs automatically whenever the type of entity you specified is created or changed.

Alert

An alert is a notification that shows in the Navigator.

Attribute

An attribute describes the characteristics of a source entity or tangible entity. For example, a person's attributes could be hair colour, eye colour, and height.

Fixed or hard attributes are always associated with an entity.

You can't remove them. Other, soft attributes can be removed if they're no longer required.

Case Note

A description of one investigative activity in a case and its result.

Content Source Document (CSD)

Collective term for case notes, information reports, incident reports, tasks, and task results.

Continuity

Direction of travel for property item, for example a gun might be moved from one location to another. This movement is referred to as continuity.

Cover tab

First page of disclosure schedule that links to the PDFs within it.

Designation

A group of users specified by your organisation.

Entity

An entity is something you add to an investigation from a source entity. See types of entities.

ERP

Entity Relationship Path.

External source entity

Source entity not linked to a case.

Fictitious Entity

This is an entity that seems to exist in the real world but it doesn't really. For example, a person might give you an address that doesn't exist.

You can record the address as fictitious.

Form

An item you open in ICM.

Hotspot

A selectable area of an image.

Identifying image

Image used to identify an entity under its Images tab.

Involvements

A tangible entity's involvement in a case.

Jurisdiction

The territory covered by a legal authority.

Keyword Delimiters

Characters that show the start or end of a keyword.

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

LOE

Line of Enquiry.

Markup

Adding content to a document.

Media Entity

A tangible entity. Examples include video and audio files.

Navigator

Panel on left of ICM that provides quick access to frequently used areas of the software such alerts, favourites, and recent item.

NEE

Named Entity Extraction.

Redact

Hide sensitive content on a document.

Relationships

Relationships are named connections between entities. They can contain date and time information.

Soundex

A type of search that retrieves words that sound like your search words (as well as exact matches of the search word).

Source Entity

A source entity contains abstract information. Examples of source entities in Investigator include cases, case notes, tasks, task results, information reports, and incident reports.

Stored Search

Some types of searches allow you to store your results in ICM so you can refer to these later.

System Entity

A type of source entity or a tangible entity provided in ICM. You can use these entities to create your own types of entities.

Tangible entity

A tangible entity is attached to a source entity. It contains information about things that relate to an investigation.

Examples include people, agencies, vehicles, locations, contact numbers, transactions, events, weapons, documents, images, videos.

URN

Unique Reference Number.

Waypoint

Fixed location managed by a global positioning system (GPS). A waypoint has a specified longitude and latitude.

Wild card

A character that will match any character or sequence of characters in a search.