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Affected Roles: System Owner • System Administrator • Advanced Viewer • Viewer
Related Nx VMS Apps: Nx Desktop
Complexity: Medium
Introduced: v2.5
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What is the Show on Alarm Layout action?
Nx Witness's Alarm Layout is a System-generated Layout which displays cameras based on specific events and rules set up in the Nx Witness Event Rules Engine.
How to set up a Show on Alarm Layout action:
- Right click on the camera (in the Resource Panel or Viewing Grid) and select Camera Rules to open the Event Rules Dialog.
- Under the Event section (on the left side of the rule dialog) choose your target System Event (e.g. Motion, Soft Trigger, etc).
- In the Action section of the rule (on the right side of the rule dialog) in the Do field select Show on Alarm Layout.
- In the Interval of Action field configure how often the Rule should run when triggered.
- In the for section choose the roles / users the notification should appear for.
- To make sure the Alarm Layout opens for targeted operators check the Force Alarm Layout opening checkbox.
- Optional: Check the Also show source camera checkbox
- Press Apply and Ok to save the rule.
Comments
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I got a system with multiple client computers, is it possible to control witch of these will show the alarm layout? I do not want it to pop up on all 5 clients.
I also wonder if its possible to put the alarm layout on the video wall.
I got another request:
Make it possible to show web page, local file or just a text note on alarm layout together with cameras.
So that when a camera pops up, a instruction with information about how to handle the alarm can show up together with the live video.
Hi Fredrik,
Better late than never? ;-)
>>I got a system with multiple client computers, is it possible to control witch of these will show the alarm layout? I do not want it to pop up on all 5 clients.
This is possible since you can assign the action to specific users and in that case the alarm layout only opens on the client where that specific user is logged into.
>>I also wonder if its possible to put the alarm layout on the video wall.
Currently, it is not possible to put the alarm layout on the Video Wall. But it is something that is under discussion in our product team and might make it's way into a future release.
>>Make it possible to show web page, local file or just a text note on alarm layout together with cameras.
So that when a camera pops up, an instruction with information about how to handle the alarm can show up together with the live video.
This is possible with the action Open Layout, but be aware that in case of local files, the local file need to be available on the local client computer that hosts the Nx Desktop client. For text notes, you can use the Show Text Overlay action in the rule engine.
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