Offense Catalog: Maintaining Charges for Penalty Notices

Overview

The Vergehen (Offenses) catalog (group Sonstiges, Miscellaneous, under /applications/generalMasterData/overview) contains the Tatvorwürfe (charges) that you select when recording penalty notices — e.g. "Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitung" (speeding), "Falschparken" (illegal parking), or "Rotlichtverstoß" (running a red light). A well-maintained catalog ensures consistent naming and therefore analyzable penalty-notice statistics.

Creating and editing a charge

1. Open Allgemeine Stammdaten and select Vergehen on the left.
2. Click "Vergehen hinzufügen" (Add offense) or Bearbeiten (Edit) in the actions column.
3. In the side dialog, enter the Tatvorwurf (charge; required) and save.

Duplicate charges are rejected ("Der von Ihnen eingegebene Begriff ist in der Datenbank bereits vorhanden." — The term you entered already exists in the database.), and the creation date is logged automatically. Deletion is done as usual via the trash-can icon with a confirmation prompt.

Use in the penalty-notice module

In penalty-notice management (Strafmandate, Penalty notices, /applications/penalties/overview), each notice is assigned an entry from this catalog via the "Tatvorwurf auswählen" (Select charge) dropdown; the overview table shows the charge as its own column.

If a charge is missing during recording, you don't have to leave the dialog: directly from the penalty-notice dialog, you can create a new charge, which is immediately selected and permanently added to the catalog.

Recommendations for building the catalog

• Use short, generic names ("Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitung innerorts" — speeding in a built-up area) rather than case-specific texts with a date or amount — details belong in the penalty notice itself.
• Create one name per type of violation and avoid variants in upper/lower case, so that reports by charge do not fragment.

Frequently asked questions

What happens to penalty notices if I delete a charge? Existing notices lose their catalog assignment. Before deleting, check in the penalty-notice overview (filter on the charge column) whether the entry is still in use.

Who may create charges? All users with masterdata.edit — both here in the catalog and via the quick-create path in the penalty-notice dialog.

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