About using the built-in help – Milestone XProtect Go 2014 User Manual

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Milestone XProtect

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Go 2014

Administrator's Manual

www.milestonesys.com

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First time use

changes are applied to the system. If you want to apply the changes, click Save. If you do not want to
save your changes, click Discard.

Once you have made changes to the configuration of your Management Application and saved these,
your system contacts the system services (such as the Recording Server service and the Image
Server service). If you make changes to your configuration, for example if you change the name of a
camera or change motion detection settings, the relevant system services load the new configuration
and the changes appear in your client immediately. In contrast, more resource-demanding
configuration changes, for example if you add a new event, require that you restart the relevant
services before they work properly.

If you need to restart services, your system carries out the restart automatically once you have saved
the changes. If you make changes to settings in the Milestone Mobile server, your system applies all
changes when you click Save, without restarting the Milestone Mobile server service.

IMPORTANT: While your system restarts services, you cannot view or record video. Restarting
services typically only takes a few seconds, but in order to minimize disruption, you may want to
restart services at a time when you do not expect that any important incidents take place. Users
connected to your system through clients can remain logged in during the restart of services, but may
experience a short video outage.

Note that the system stores changes in a restore point (see "Restore system configuration from a
restore point"
on page 202) (so that you can return to a working configuration if something goes
wrong).

About using the built-in help

To use your system's built-in help, click the Help button in the Management Application's toolbar or
press the F1 key on your keyboard.

The help system opens in your default Internet browser and allows you to switch between the help and
your system itself. The help system is context-sensitive. This means that when you press F1 for help
while you work in a particular dialog, the help system displays help that matches that dialog.

Navigate the built-in help system

To navigate between the contents of the help system, use the help tabs: Contents, Index, Search, or
use the links inside the help topics.

Contents: navigate the help system based on a tree structure.

Index: contains an alphabetical indexation of help topics.

Search: search for help topics that contain particular terms of interest. For example, you can
search for the term zoom and every help topic that contains the term zoom is listed in the
search results. When you double-click a help topic title in the search results list, the relevant
topic opens.

Print help topics

If you need to print a topic, use your Internet browser's printing function. When you print a help topic, it
is printed as you see it on your screen. This means that if a topic contains links that expand when you
click on them (drop-down links) and you want the information in the drop-down links shown in your
print output, you must click each relevant drop-down link to display the text to include it when you print.
This allows you to create targeted printouts that contain exactly the amount of information you need.

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