Milestone Central 3.7 - Manual (Page 59)

Milestone XProtect 3.7; Administrator’s Manual
Client: Maps
What Can You Do with Maps?
Maps are basically visual representations of the environments in which your surveillance
installations exist. They are displayed in the XProtect Central Client’s Map section. Maps are
excellent for providing end users, such as security personnel, with an intuitive overview of your
systems.
Map information is stored on the XProtect Central Server, and is thus accessible by all XProtect
Central Clients.
You may use simple colored backgrounds for your maps, or you may import background images,
such as street plans, building plans, photographs, etc., and use them in your maps.
You create and manage maps using the Maps entry in the Client’s Navigation section. See Defining
a New Map on page 62 for more information.
Using Map Hierarchies
You are able to use any number of maps, and place
them in any number of hierarchies according to your
needs. By clicking map hierarchy indicators on the
maps themselves, operators can easily move up and
down through map hierarchies.
To manage a hierarchy of maps in the Client’s
Navigation section, simply move maps to required
levels in the hierarchy: Make sure the Navigation
section’s Lock check box (see page 63) is cleared,
then drag each map to the required level in the
Navigation section’s hierarchy.
Navigating Between Map Hierarchy Levels
It is possible to move between map hierarchy levels simply be selecting the required level in the
Navigation section’s hierarchy.
However, whenever you create a new map under an existing map, a map hierarchy indicator
is automatically placed in the Client’s Map section. The map hierarchy indicator serves as a
quick visual link to the new map. The same applies if you move existing maps in the
Navigation section’s hierarchy.
The map hierarchy indicator will by default be placed in the top left corner of the map under which
the new map was created, but (having cleared the Lock check box; see page 63) you can move the
indicator to any required position in the map.
When operators want to move from one map to another underlying map, they can simply click a
map hierarchy indicator.
Map hierarchy indicators may have different colors: Green map hierarchy indicators indicate that
no alarms are present on underlying maps; red map hierarchy indicators indicate that alarms or
operational status indications on underlying maps require attention.
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