Group regrouping enables dispatchers or any authorized user to temporarily combine MCX Service Groups. A dispatcher uses group regrouping for different reasons.
Due to an incident in an area it can be necessary to temporarily enable MCX Users from different MCX Service Groups to communicate to each other to coordinate. After the incident the dispatcher cancels the group regrouping and the MCX Users continue with their original configured MCX Service Groups.
During quiet periods control room managers can decide to combine MCX Service Groups and handle their operations and communications with one dispatcher. In the busier period the group regrouping is cancelled and the MCX Service Groups are handled by separate dispatchers.
MCX Service Groups that are being combined in a Group Regroup operation may belong to the same or different MCX servers and may have different security and priority levels, different floor control methods, as well as different operational characteristics (e.g. different call start criteria, different call or session hang timers, different transmit time limits, different override settings, different floor control parameters such as queue depth, queing policy and time-to-live in the queue). However, the newly created temporary MCX Service Group can have only a single security level, priority level, floor control method, and set of operational characteristics. The MCX Service will apply the proper setting of those parameters for the new MCX Service Group.
[R-6.6.2.2-001]
The MCX Service shall provide a means of dynamically combining a multiplicity of groups into a new, temporary group (i.e., to perform a "Group Regroup operation").
[R-6.6.2.2-002]
The MCX Service shall notify MCX Users when and how any of their affiliated groups are affected by a Group Regroup operation including notification of modified security, priority, floor control, and other operational characteristics.
[R-6.6.2.2-003]
The MCX Service shall provide notification and information to an authorized MCX User if that user is attempting to Group Regroup MCX Service Groups of different security levels, priority levels, and/or floor control methods.
[R-6.6.2.2-004]
The MCX Service shall enable an authorized MCX User to set the security level of the Group created from a Group Regroup operation. Where an MCX User does not specify the security level the MCX Service shall default the security level to be set to the lowest security level of the constituent Groups.
[R-6.6.2.2-005]
The MCX Service shall notify Affiliated MCX Service Group Members of a constituent MCX Service Group when the security level of the MCX Service Group that they are using lowers as a result of a Group Regroup operation.
[R-6.6.2.2-006]
The MCX Service shall enable an authorized MCX User to set the priority level of the group formed from a Group Regroup operation. Where an MCX User does not specify the priority level the MCX Service shall default the priority level to be set to the highest priority level of the constituent Groups.
[R-6.6.2.2-007]
Broadcast Groups shall be able to be included in a Group Regroup operation.
[R-6.6.2.2-008]
The MCX Service shall enable an authorized MCX User or MCX Service Administrator to configure default settings and rules for the operational characteristics of temporary MCX Service Groups resulting from Group Regroup operations (e.g. call start criteria, hang time).
[R-6.6.2.2-009]
The MCX Service shall enable an authorized MCX User to specify the operational characteristics of temporary MCX Service Groups resulting from Group Regroup operations either explicitly, or via pre-defined implicit rules, or via pre-configured default values, or, in case all the constituent Groups have in common the same operational characteristics, to use the common settings.
[R-6.6.2.2-010]
The MCX Service shall enable an authorized MCX User to set the floor control method of the Group created from a Group Regroup operation when the Group Regroup includes one or more groups configured for audio cut-in operation. Where an MCX User does not specify the floor control method the MCX Service shall default to using normal floor control for the Group Regroup (i.e. do not use audio cut-in).
[R-6.6.2.2-011]
The MCX Service shall prevent an authorized MCX User from including a temporary group in a Group Regroup operation.
[R-6.6.2.2-012]
The MCX Service shall prevent an authorized MCX User from including a MCX Group that is already part of an existing Group Regroup in a different Group Regroup operation.
[R-6.6.2.2-013]
The MCX Service shall be configurable either to prevent or to allow all authorized MCX Users from including a MCX Group that is in emergency state in a Group Regroup operation.