Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 74)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 74 Defining your views
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(From a camera) Live Preview: Lets you see a live preview from the selected camera.
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(From a camera) View Zone: Lets you toggle on and off a fixed camera's view zone that
shows the camera's angle of view.
The shortcut menu that appears when you right-click the map also displays other features, such as
Home Map Setup, Toolbox, Map Overview, Element Selector, Font Selection, Color Selection,
and Status Visualization.
Shortcut menus for individual elements (see "How elements interact with maps" on page 68) may have
other content.
In addition to the common right-click menu items, the right-click menus of events and output also
feature Select Icon Type, which lets you select whether the event icon or output should be displayed
as a lamp, a door, a gate or a switch. Changing the event/output icon to something more adequate to
the actual event/output helps end users more quickly get an overview of the actual contents of the
map.
To display status details, right-click the required element and select Status Details. Status details are
displayed in a separate, floating window.
The Map Overview window
The Map Overview window provides you with an overview of the map hierarchy set up in the XProtect
Smart Client. To open the Map Overview window, right-click the map and select Map Overview or
click the icon
on the map title bar.
A plus sign (+) next to a map indicates that the map could have one or more sub-maps attached to it
as hot zones. Clicking a map in the Map Overview immediately displays the selected map in the view.
Content in the Map Overview may take some time to load if you are connected to a very large
surveillance system with many maps.
Working with maps
If you are connected to a surveillance system that supports Milestone Federated Architecture, you can
only add maps from the surveillance system server you logged in to. Milestone Federated Architecture
is a parent/child setup of related but physically separate surveillance systems. Such a setup can be
relevant for, for example, chains of shops with many separate
—but related—surveillance systems.
See the XProtect Comparison Chart on www.milestonesys.com for information about which
surveillance systems support Milestone Federated Architecture.
Add a map to a view
You can add existing maps or create new ones.
1. In setup mode, in the System Overview pane, drag the Map item to the required position in
the view.
2. In the Map Setup window that appears, select either Create new map or Use existing map.
A triangle next to a map name indicates that the map could have one or more sub-maps and
all related sub-map(s) with all added elements will automatically be included.