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Using Background Items
Using Background Items 6.3
Murder Investigation
DISCOUNT
A background item is an item that is placed, as its name suggests, in the chart
background. Background items are useful when creating charts for presentation
purposes.
Typical background items are:
• floorplan
• map
• watermark
• scene of crime diagram
• organizational crest or logo
When an item is placed in the chart background you can add items to the chart and
place them on top of it. This is particularly useful if you are presenting evidence
that depicts the location of a suspect or a commodity.
In the example chart below, all of the happenings surrounding the discovery of a
body at Discount Warehouse are shown. A floorplan of the warehouse is used as a
background item, to represent the scene of the crime, and the happenings are
placed on or around it:
Shot heard
11 Jul 2006
02:58
Observed leaving
Discount Warehouse
11 Jul 2006 02:59
Unknown Male
Mortuary
Police receive call
11 Jul 2006 03:00
Body removed for autopsy
Officer arrives at
scene of crime
11 Jul 2006 03:30
Body found in plant
(appears to have been shot)
Forensic Evidence
Concierge
Discount Warehouse
A background item cannot be selected, moved, edited or deleted like a normal
chart item, but it can be made into a foreground item which will allow you to
perform these actions.
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Body
Body discovered
11 Jul 2006 03:35
Forensics arrive at
scene of crime
11 Jul 2006 04:30
Fingerprints Cannabis Handgun
MD's Office
Evidence discovered
Between 04:30 and
06:30
Evidence Discovered
Plant Plant Manager
PA's Office
Forensics leave
scene of crime
11 Jul 2006 06:30
Forensic Evidence
sent to laboratory
Medical Laboratory