Working With Round Tours (The Smart Guard™ Function); Copying Views Between Users - NETAVIS Observer 4.6 User Manual

6.7 Working with round tours (the Smart guard™ function)
Observer allows you to make virtual round tours of views. You can define round tours that contain
certain views. When a tour is started, Observer walks you through all the views by automatically
showing up the views in the Online monitor. This is like a virtual patrol of a security guard (Smart
guard™ function).
6.7.1 Defining a round tour
Steps to add a new round tour:
1. In the Online monitor choose Round tours... from the view Control menu. Now the Round
tours dialog opens.
2. In the Round tours dialog push the button Add new round tour.
3. In the Tour name field enter the name of the round tour.
4. Now you can select a view from the Views list and push the
By pushing the
pushing the Up
Please note: You can have the same view several times at different locations in a round tour.
You can select multiple views in the Views list at once by holding the CTRL key while selecting
the views.
5. For each view you can set a Shuffle duration that determines, how long (in seconds) this view is
shown before Observer automatically changes to the next view in the tour. By pushing Set for
all you can set the same duration for all view in the round tour.
6. Push Save to save your changes and OK to leave the dialog.
Later on you can modify an existing round tour by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose
an existing round tour from the Round tours list and push Modify round tour.
A tour can be deleted by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose an existing round tour
from the Round tours list and push Delete round tour. Then you have to enter your password to
confirm the delete.
6.7.2 Activating round tours
After you have defined a round tour, a new Round tour selector appears in the Online monitor. To
activate the round tour, just choose its name from the Round tour selector. This activates the
automatic walkthrough all of the views in the round tour (Smart Guard™ function). The name of the
round tour now appears in green to show that it is active. You can stop the tour by choosing a view
from the View selector (the Round tour selector will change its color to normal to show that no tour
currently is active).

6.8 Copying views between users

If there are several users in a system it can be a lot of work to create views for each user individually. In
order to help, Observer offers the possibility to copy a selected view or all views (including all view
settings) of an administrator user to other users. It is important that the user who copies the views to
other users must have user administration rights (more specifically: „User admin: Access to User
administration" and „User admin: Manipulate user data").
button you can remove a view from the tour. You reorder views in the tour by
and Down buttons.
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button to include it in the tour.
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