Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 44)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 44 Defining your views
Defining your views
Views
About views
The way in which video is displayed in the XProtect Smart Client is called a view. A view can contain
video from up to 100 cameras, depending on your surveillance system. Your XProtect Smart Client
can handle an unlimited number of views, allowing you to switch between video from various groups of
cameras. Each view's layout can be customized to fit its content. To help you maintain an overview, all
views are placed in folders called groups. A group can contain any number of views and, if required,
subgroups.
Views can be private or shared with other users (see "Private and shared views" on page 44).
In addition to video, views can display web pages and still images (for example, mugshots). For some
surveillance systems, views can even display data from other applications (such as receipts from a
cash register) alongside video.
Your user settings, including information about your views, are stored centrally on the surveillance
system server, so you can use your views, private as well as shared, on any computer that has a
XProtect Smart Client installed, provided you log in with your own user name and password.
Example: XProtect Smart Client displaying a view with video from four different cameras (a 2x2 view)
Private and shared views
Views can be private or shared:
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Private views can only be accessed by the user who created them.
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Shared views allow many XProtect Smart Client users to share the same views. This is
possible because all views are stored on the surveillance system server. Depending on your
type of surveillance system (see "Surveillance system differences" on page 42), shared views
can be shared by all XProtect Smart Client users, or access to selected shared views can be
given to certain XProtect Smart Client users.