Configuring cells and adding Surveillance windows to a layout

Configuring cells

After selecting or creating a layout, it is necessary to adjust the location and size of the cells and add Surveillance windows to them.

You can select the number and shape 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 shape.
   
   If you select the Random 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 shape 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.

Adding cameras to a layout

After you configured the required shape and number of cells, it is necessary to add Surveillance windows to a layout. To do this, drag the cameras from the list (1) to the layout cell using the left mouse button. The list (1) displays cameras selected on the settings panel of the Monitor object(s) (see Selecting and configuring video cameras) created on the basis of the selected Display object (see Selecting and activating the display).

Features of adding cameras to a layout:

• You can add the Surveillance window of a single camera to a layout only once. The cameras which 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 window, a menu with the follwing 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 will be highlighted in the list. To move to the next search result, press Enter on the keyboard.

• To display the configured layout on the Video surveillance monitor without saving it, click the Show button (2).
• If the layout was created using the Display manager, then the frames displayed in the camera at the moment when it was added to the layout will be displayed in the Surveillance windows. If the layout was created using the Video surveillance monitor, then in order to display these frames in the Surveillance windows, click the Refresh button (3).
• To delete all cells from a layout, click the Clear button (4).
• To save a layout, click the Apply button (5).
• To undo the changes and return to the last saved layout, click the Cancel button (6).