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Configure cells

After you select or create a layout, you must configure the location and size of cells and add Surveillance surveillance windows to them.

You can select the number and form of cells in one of the following ways, or both at the same time:

  1. In the Layouts drop-down list, select the required layout form.

    If you select the Random layout Custom layout item, the window opens, in which you must specify the number of cells in the layout, vertically (columns) and horizontally (strings).
  2. You can adjust the layout form manually using the <, >, , buttons. Each click of these buttons expands the cell by one position in the corresponding direction.
    In order to remove unnecessary empty cells along the border, select the Delete empty by border item from the Layouts drop-down list.
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Separators between cells are two pixels wide.

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Add cameras to a layout

After you configured the required form and number of cells, you must add Surveillance add surveillance windows to a layout. To do this, drag the cameras from the list to the layout cell using the left mouse button. The list displays cameras selected on the settings panel of one or several Monitor objects (see Selecting and configuring video cameras) created on the basis of the selected Display object (see Select and activate the display).

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Features of adding cameras to a layout:

  • You can add the Surveillance surveillance window of a single camera to a layout only once. The cameras that are already added to a layout are highlighted in gray in the list.
  • If you drag a camera into a cell that already displays a Surveillance surveillance window, a menu with the following items opens: replace the current camera in the cell with the camera that you drag, or add a new camera to an empty cell without replacing it:
  • To search for a camera, enter the camera name or ID in the Camera field. The first found camera is highlighted in the list. To move to the next search result, press Enter on the keyboard.

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  • To display the configured layout on the Video video surveillance monitor, click the the Show button. Prior to that, save the layout using the Apply button.
  • If a layout was created using theDisplay display manager, then the frames displayed in the camera at the moment when it was added to the layout are displayed in the Surveillance surveillance windows. If a layout was created using the Video video surveillance monitor, then in order to display these frames in the Surveillance the surveillance windows, click the Refresh button.
  • To delete all cells from a layout, click the Clear button.
  • To save a layout, click the Apply button.
  • To undo the changes and return to the last saved layout, click the Cancel button.
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If after changing the layout, you select another layout, another Monitor monitor, or another Displaydisplay, the  the changes are automatically saved and cannot be undone.

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