Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 14)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 14 The main window
Tabs
The XProtect Smart Client has the following main areas:
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The Live tab (on page 36) for viewing live video
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The Playback tab (on page 37) for viewing recorded video
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The Sequence Explorer tab (see "Sequence Explorer" on page 123) for navigating video
sequences and bookmarks
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The Alarm Manager tab (on page 149) for investigating incidents and alarms
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The System Monitor tab (on page 41) for viewing system information
If some of the tabs are unavailable, it is because you do not have the rights required to access all the
areas.
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)