The Timeline

General information

The timeline is a graphical representation of the time axis of the archive and is located in the middle part of the navigation panel. To display a timeline on the navigation panel, you must switch to the Archive mode of the selected camera (see Switching to the Archive mode).

You can scroll and zoom the timeline using the mouse. To scroll the timeline, move the cursor on its background vertically while holding down the left mouse button. To change the scale of the timeline, right-click the timeline's background, and while holding down the right mouse button, move the cursor down to zoom out or up to zoom in.

The timeline lets you select at which moment to start playback of a recording in the Surveillance window. To select at which moment to begin playback, you can either left-click the indicator and hold it down while dragging it to the required position, or just left-click the left part of the timeline.
If there is no recording in the selected position, the indicator automatically moves to the position corresponding to the nearest recording.

Timeline indicators

The timeline contains indicators of the presence of recordings—tracks.

Tracks are marked in different colors depending on the archive status:

Display of alarms on a timeline

At the moment when an alarm is assigned a status (confirmed, suspicious, false, or skipped), a flag is added to the track. A flag is added to the point on the timeline when the alarm began.

The flag is colored according to the alarm status:

1. Green—false alarm.
2. Yellow—suspicious situation.
3. Red—confirmed alarm.
4. Gray—skipped alarm.

Display of bookmarks on a timeline

When you create a bookmark, the corresponding icons appear.

The icons can have the following colors:

1. Yellow—protected bookmark.
2. White—unprotected bookmark.
3. Gray—any bookmark when pointing the cursor on it in events.
4. Red/yellow/green triangle—mandatory comments in case of alarm.
5. Yellow/white—bookmarks created via the top panel during alarm assessment.
6. Triangles that are highlighted in white—pointing a comment in events.
7. A bookmark with the [... icon—group of bookmarks.

When you point the cursor on a bookmark placed on the timeline or in the event list (see Events List), a pop-up window displays the following information:

• username;
• category;
• comment;
• camera name.

Deleting an archive fragment

You can delete an archive fragment using the timeline. To do this, you need to:

1. Open the required layout (see Selection and Slideshow of Layouts).
2. Select the required camera.
3. Switch to the archive mode (see Switching to the Archive mode).
4. On the timeline, select the interval to delete an archive fragment:
   1. Place the timeline pointer at the beginning of the interval.
   2. Click the button.
   3. Scroll the timeline and place the pointer at the end of the interval.
   4. Click the button.
5. Click the button.
6. Click the button.
   
7. Click the Delete fragment button.
8. In the window that opens, set the parameter settings, which are specified in the table:
   

   Deleting an archive fragment
   Start	[date], [month], [year], [hours], [minutes], [seconds]	By default, the interval selected on the timeline is displayed. If necessary, you can change the date and time to delete an archive fragment Attention! When you change the time range in the timeline or in the advanced navigation panel, the date and time values are updated automatically in the opened dialog window.
   End
   Selected cameras	1	If you switch to the archive by one camera, the archive fragment of the selected camera is deleted. You can also select multiple or all cameras; for this you need to: Open the required layout (see Selection and Slideshow of Layouts). Switch to the archive mode (see Switching to the Archive mode). Click the Archive panel button. On the timeline, select the interval to delete an archive fragment

9. Click the button.
10. In the warning window that opens, click the button again.
    

Deleting an archive fragment is complete.