The Report Writing application provides an innovative approach to collaboration with its Contributing Officers functionality. All users involved with an arrest, case, field interview, or incident that need to contribute to a report can do so in one location instead of each creating their own separate reports. Within this single report, each user can add, edit, or remove information on the report simultaneously, view the changes made by others, and save their contributions independently without affecting the progress of others.
As a contributing officer, it is important to be aware of major changes made to the report, such as your supervisor rejecting it. After a change such as this occurs, the Report Writing application automatically sends an email detailing the change to the email address saved to your profile in ESS. Additionally, when the application is open, a notification message displays across the bottom of your screen. Notification messages and emails are received in the following instances:
You add or remove another user as a contributing officer from a report you created.
Another user adds or removes themselves as a contributing officer from a report you created.
Another user adds or removes you from a report created by yourself or another user.
Your supervisor accepts, rejects, or begins reviewing a submitted report on which you were a contributing officer.
An Enterprise Records personnel accepts, rejects, or begins reviewing a report on which you were a contributing officer from the Enterprise Records review queue.
For information on how to become or add a contributing officer to a report, see the following help topics:
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