In order to create a protocol report, do the following:

1. Select the Protocol report type (see Selecting a type of general report section).
2. As a result the dialog box for specifying the report parameters will be displayed.

Set the following report parameters:

1. Select the necessary object type from the objects and events list (1).

   It is possible to select the view of the list of objects and events (see Selecting the view of the list of objects and events for the Protocol report).

   
   

2. Select objects on which the report is to be created from the objects list of corresponding type (2).
3. Click the  button to display events corresponding to the selected object.
4. Set the checkboxes in those events of the selected object on which information is to be displayed in the report (3).
5. Set the Report with video: checkbox to create the report which will be contain video image from the camera (4).
6. From the Camera: drop-down list select the camera from which the video will be displayed in the report (5).
7. From the Filter: drop-down list select the rule by which the filter will be applied when generating the report (6).

   • No - the filter will not be applied.

   • Equals - the report will be generated only for those events where the Information column content is strictly equal to the filter value specified in the Filter text field (7).

   • Contains - the report will be generated only for those events where the Information column contains the filter value specified in the Filter text field (7).

   The report is filtered only by the Information column (see the report fields description in the table below).

   
   

8. In the Filter text: field enter the value for the report filtering (7).

9. In the Maximum of output strings: field enter the number of output strings in the protocol report (8).
10. Specify the period as follows:
    1. From the Period dropdown list select the time period for which the report is to be created (9).
    2. If the User defined period is selected, enter the date of start and end periods for which the report is to be created in the from and to fields using the Calendar tool. Click the  button next to the corresponding field to use the Calendar tool.
       
    3. If the User defined 2 period is selected, specify the time of start and end periods for which the report is to be created using the  button.
       If another period type is selected, specifying the date of start and end periods is not needed.
11. To create a report click Execute (10).

As a result the Protocol report with specified parameters is displayed.

A form of the Protocol report with video displaying consists of three parts. Part 1 is equal to the print form of protocol reports without video displaying. Part 2 displays video from the selected camera. Part 3 displays image.

Video is displayed in case of the video archive for the specified period is existed. Otherwise, the last frame from archive is displayed.

Images corresponding to events of employee passes will be displayed while using the FSA/ACS module. Specify the path to the folder with images in the <add key="PathToPhotos" value ="" /> parameter in the web.config file to display images. On default, the "/BMP/Person/" path is specified.

Names of files should correspond to ID of emloyees whose passes are displayed in report.

The description of report fields is given in the table.