Tabbed Lists

Operational data in G-SIM are displayed as Lists that are accessed through the Menu Tabs. By default the Menu Tabs and Lists are displayed on the right hand side of monitor 1, unless you have decided to mirror your template. Lists can be displayed either on the left or right hand side of the main interface, while the Menu Tabs may be positioned beside or above the Lists. Not all Lists may be visible to all users because of individual user privilege settings.

These Lists form the core control of the G-SIM Operator Interface and contain all system items you may want to use or access, e.g. Alarms, Sites, Cameras, VideoTools, Tours, Events, Users, Tasks, Messages, or Audit Log items (each has a dedicated chapter). Items may be dragged from these Lists to populate Viewers, for example be it to view a camera Live, to get a map of a site or to handle an Alarm. In the rest of this chapter we will focus on the generic aspects that are applicable to most of the Lists.

List Layout

All the Lists available to a specific user are grouped on one of the Main Tabs, and by clicking the corresponding tab, its List will be displayed. At the top of most Lists is a set of filter buttons that can be used to filter the list content. Depending on the list, the first is usually "All", which is an unfiltered list, followed by two filters that you can define. See Filtering for more on filtering.

The items in the list are each displayed as a line of text giving the most essential information about the item. Clicking on an item will expand it to reveal a Detail Card with information about the item.

Many items have detail that might in turn also contain one or more lists, e.g. the Detail Card of a Camera may contain a list of users who currently have viewers attached to the camera, as well as a list of currently playing Tours which contain this camera. Most of the items in these Detail Card lists are again objects that might be used in drag-and-drop operations.

Example For example: if a user is viewing a camera, his/her name will appear in the Users List in the Camera Detail, and you may drag that user's name from here to the Msg Tab to send the user a message.

The text colors of list items indicate intrinsic (fixed) properties of the item, e.g. in the Camera List the different camera positions are indicated by different colored text.

An item's state is indicated by a series of State Icons displayed to the right of the item's colored band. Some items may hold only single states, e.g. in the Users List a user is logged in or not, and this state is indicated by an icon. Cameras in the Camera List can display the view state (if viewed by any users), blocked state, available state etc. These state icons will be discussed in detail for each List in subsequent chapters, but a rule of thumb is that an icon with a small figure in the left corner indicates that you (the current logged in user) are the owner. E.g. a screen icon in the camera list indicates that the camera is viewed by a user. A screen icon with a figure in the corner indicates that you are viewing that camera.

Below are state icons associated with cameras:

	Viewed. The camera is currently being viewed by someone
	Viewed by me. You (the logged in user) are currently viewing the camera
	Blocked to me. The camera is blocked by someone, and you may not view it at this stage
	Blocked by me. You (the logged in user) blocked this camera

Applying Filters to a List

Most Lists may be filtered by at least one filter criterion. A filter is set by clicking on the filter box and selecting an option from the list of available criteria, as explained in detail in Filtering.

Pressing a key while the filter list is open will select the first item in the list starting with this letter. This is useful in long sorted criteria lists, e.g. selecting a site in the camera list. You can also use arrow keys or the mouse wheel to scroll through a filter list.

Incremental Search in Lists

In the Site List the incremental search facility is very useful to find a specific site by simply starting to type the site name while the list has focus (for example positioning the mouse cursor over the list). All letters pressed within 1 second from each other will be added to the current search, and a new search will start after a 1 second delay. For example: pressing 'B', 'A', 'L' with less than a 1 second delay between each letter will select the first word starting with 'BAL'. If you type 'B', 'A', wait 1 second and then press 'L', the first item starting with 'BA' will be selected, and thereafter the first item starting with 'L' will be selected.

The arrow keys may be used to select a list item in close proximity of the previous selection. The mouse wheel may also be used to scroll through a list if you want to select an item using the mouse.

Multi-Selection in Lists

Some of the lists (e.g. the alarm and cameras lists) and some of the filter criteria (e.g. selecting users to block from viewing a camera) allow the user to select more than one item and then batch process all the selected items. It is sometimes very useful to be able to handle a batch of new alarms that were generated because of a recurring failure, or to add a group of cameras to a Tour by selecting them all, then dragging them to the GT.