Viewers

Viewers refer to all the windows except the group of Tabbed Lists as described above. These windows can be used to dock and view video streams, maps or Lists. The whole main interface area not used for Lists or the main toolbar consists of Viewer windows. Viewers fill the whole screen area of any second, third or fourth monitors. Each Viewer window has a single-digit identifier displayed in its top right corner. The actual size and layout of Viewer windows can be customised, as described elsewhere in this chapter (see Toolbar).

To populate a Viewer with a video, map or List, you can use either the keyboard or the mouse. Some List items (Cameras, Tours, and Maps) have in their detail view a View button which may be used to dock that item on a Viewer. The description of this button depends on the item: Show on Map in the case of a site, View Live in the case of a camera and View Tour in the case of a Tour. After clicking any of these buttons the unique identifying letter of each Viewer will be enlarged and overlaid over the Viewer window (as shown in the image above). On your keyboard, press the identifier of the Viewer you want to use — the selected item will then be displayed at that position. Alternatively simply click on the viewer.

Lists can also be copied to a Viewer window (the original list will always stay in the Tabbed List group). This is useful if you always want to have an Alarm List open, if you want your List of Tasks in a separate window, etc. To copy a List to a viewer, click the Dock List button at the top of the List next to the tabs, and select a Viewer by typing its letter as before. Or you can just drag the List's tab and drop it on the Viewer.

A Viewer may very easily be populated using the mouse by dragging an item from a List and dropping it on the Viewer window. An item may be dragged without its detail being displayed - the above mentioned method using the keyboard can only be accomplished if the Detail Card is expanded, because you need to click a button on the Card. If the detail is displayed, you can start to drag the item by grabbing any part of it. You can also copy a list to a Viewer by grabbing it in the header section and dropping it on a Viewer. Starting a drag operation in the List body will obviously drag a list item and not the List itself.

You can use drag & drop either to copy a viewer's content or to move the viewer. To copy, click on the content then drag it and drop it where you want the copy displayed. To move it, drag the viewer's header. This is useful if you want to review the footage whilst still viewing it live in the original viewer.

The result of a drag-and-drop operation depends on the item being dragged and the current content of the viewer it is dropped on. If a camera is dropped on an empty viewer, the live video will be displayed, whereas if it's dropped on a viewer containing a map, that camera's position will be highlighted on the map (even if the map containing that camera has to be loaded).

The mouse cursor will always give an indication of the kind of item being dragged, and will change to show the action that will be performed if dropped on a specific viewer.

The detail of how to control cameras with the viewer interface and other topics are explained in detail in the chapter on Cameras. See Viewing Camera Footage.