Creating a list of tagged vessels
Vessels can be tagged to create lists of vessels and fleets that your organisation needs to keep track of. To provide more context, notes can be included when a tag is added to or removed from a vessel. A tag can have multiple notes and anyone in an organisation can add subsequent notes to tags on vessels for further dialogue or collaboration.
Once you have selected the group of vessels you are interested in, you can create a tag and add it to all of these vessels. You can add a note at the same time to provide further information. Vessels with the same tag generate a list of vessels, and all tagged vessels are available to all users in your organisation.
Tags can also be customised by colour to help organisations visualise and manage tasks such as tracking multiple fleets of a certain risk or interest, separating the work of different teams, or highlighting vessels that trigger actions. Colours can be assigned on creation of a new tag (through the Selected Vessel panel → Actions → Add/Remove tags), when managing existing tags (in the Tagged Vessels menu), or viewed in your organisation’s Activity menu.
Analysis and alerts with tags
Tags can be used, as part of an advanced filter, if you would like to understand which tagged vessels are in your area and timeframe of your analysis.
Tags can also be used for setting alerts if you would like to know when a vessel of interest is entering your area of interest.
Learn More: Creating and managing alerts →
All vessels with tags are accessible from the ‘Tagged vessels’ page. Here, you can filter the list to view certain tags and bulk manage tags on vessels.
When vessels are tagged the tag is added to the vessel history at the current time and location of the vessel. The user who assigned the tag is also noted. This means tags can help manage processes like vessel assessments, inspections, and surveillance planning.
Tags have an audit history, which is visible in each vessel’s track history. These tag events are not editable and means that every time a tag is added and/or removed, it is permanently recorded. Tag labels are not editable. Notes can be edited and deleted, and all notes and any changes to them are recorded in track history.
Tag Management
If your organisation is using a large amount of tags users can choose which ones are relevant to them and hide the rest.
The Starboard team have found that organisations can quickly build up a large number of tags, which can become difficult to sort and manage. We've found the follow action help keep tags controlled and assist with quickly finding relevant information:
Agree on business rules for your organisation to lay out how tags will be used.
Regularly tidy up tags to archive remove those that are no longer necessary, or combine tags to reduce the total number.
Sometimes three tags are better than one. For example, if your organisation tags vessels for inspection and also those that are compliant, and also provides a month and year in those tags, then rather than using: Vessel Inspection Target October 2024 and Compliant Vessel October 2024, try using:
Tag 1: Vessel Inspection Target or Compliant Vessel
Tag 2: October
Tag 3: 2024
This will allow your team to look back and see all the vessel inspection targets throughout the organisations history, or all the activities that occurred in October 2024. This also prevents large numbers of new tags being created every month - in this case when a new month starts only one new tag needs to be created.
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