Milestone XProtect Enterprise 2014 - Manual (Page 71)

Milestone XProtect ® Enterprise
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 71 Advanced configuration
Recording and storage properties
Recording and archiving paths (properties)
When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 64),
you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or
because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual
cameras.
You can edit all properties on a white background. You cannot edit properties on a light blue
background. Note that all of the properties can also be specified individually for each camera.
Name Description
Template
The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. Say
you have 20 cameras and you want to change the recording path,
archiving path, and retention time for all of them. Instead of having
to enter the same three pieces of information 20 times, you can
simply enter them once in the template, and then apply the template
to the 20 cameras with only two clicks.
Apply Template
Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use one
of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template.
Camera Name
The name as it appears in the Management Application as well as
in clients. You can overwrite the existing name with a new one.
Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special
characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ]
Shortcut
Users of the Smart Client can take advantage of keyboard
shortcuts, some of which let the users toggle between viewing
different cameras. Such shortcuts include numbers which are used
to identify each camera.
Shortcut numbers must be unique for each camera. A camera
shortcut number must not contain any letters or special characters,
and must not be longer than eight digits.
Examples of correct camera shortcut numbers: 3, 12345678.
Examples of incorrect camera shortcut numbers: Cam#3,
123456789.
More information about using the keyboard shortcuts is available in
the separate documentation for the Smart Client.