Title bar controls

The indicators and links available under the station and system names are:
  • Image The Alarm console link opens the alarm console in the view area. The alarm icon’s color reports the current alarm state. The icon flashes red when an alarm indicates a fault or offnormal state.
  • Image The Job Service link displays when a job has a start time of less than one hour. Clicking this icon opens the Job Service view. To open the Job Service view when no link is available, click System (Controller) Setup > Miscellaneous > Jobs from the main menu.
  • Image The Tenant Filter link opens the Tenant Filter window. You use this window to limit the information displayed to only data that belongs to the tenant or tenants assigned to the current user.
  • Image The Pop Out in New Window opens the current window in a new, full-page window.
  • Image The Help button opens a page context-sensitive help related to the current view. If no context-sensitive help is available, the complete Help Table of Contents open.
  • Image The Logout button logs out of the system.
     NOTE: Always log out and close the browser when you are finished with a session. 

Menu bar

The menu bar is located directly below the title bar and contains two rows of menus that are visible by default.
Figure 3.   Menu bar
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The primary menus provides a common set of tabbed menus with secondary menu tabs beneath the primary row. Additional options display as menu pages. You can customize menus (navigation) to add links to new graphic views that you create.

Secondary menus provide access directly to views or to menu pages that contain additional related links.

Some menus provide tabs. More or fewer tabs may display, depending on user type log-in privileges and navigation customization.

By default, the primary menus include the following titles:

  • Home provides access to the other primary menus by displaying a main menu page and an expanding navigation menu.
    Figure 4.   Home view menu with Personnel expanded
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  • Monitoring provides access to the Alarm Console, Activity Monitor, and Video Monitoring menu items.
  • Personnel provides access to people-related views, such as badge, access right, tenant, and personnel views.
  • Reports provides access to history reports (such as alarm history and attendance history) as well as hardware reports that list types of equipment included in the system.
  • Controller Setup (System Setup in a Supervisor station) provides access to a wide variety of configuration menus that you can use to setup hardware, alarms, access and intrusion zones, and other functions.
  • Threat Levels provides access to Threat Level and threat level setup views.

Tabs

The tabs segregate properties and related table views. The view pane may display one of a variety of types of layouts, depending on the function of the view.
Figure 5.   People summary showing tabs.
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 NOTE: You can move among tabs without losing unsaved data, however, you must click the button before leaving the view or data is lost.