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Milestone XProtect Smart Client; User’s Manual
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When that is the case, you can start using your Smart Client straight away; creating further views
in your Smart Client will not be necessary unless you want to supplement the views in the shared
groups with views of your own, placed in private groups.
If you want to create views yourself, for example if no views in shared groups are available in your
organization, the Smart Client’s Setup tab lets you create groups and views, and specify which
cameras should be included in each view.
Note: Particular user rights may be required in order to access the Setup tab. Your ability to create
groups and views also depends on your user rights. From time to time your surveillance system
administrator may make changes to camera or user properties on the surveillance system server.
When this is the case, such changes will take effect in the Smart Client the first time you log in
after the changes were made. Such changes may require you to re-create your views. Ask your
surveillance system administrator if in doubt.
Are Any Views in Shared Groups Available?
Especially if you are a first-time user of the Smart Client, you will want to know whether any views
have already been created and placed in shared groups for your organization’s Smart Client users.
Typically, your surveillance system administrator will have told you if views in shared groups are
used in your organization.
Alternatively, to quickly determine whether any views have already been created and placed in
shared groups, do the following:
Note: This method requires that your user rights permit you to access the Smart Client’s Live tab
and/or Browse tab. Most users will have access to at least one of these tabs.
1. Go to the Smart Client’s Live or Browse tab.
2. On the Live or Browse tab, look at the Views section:
 If the Views section contains any folders under the Shared folder, shared groups are
available.
Example of Views section containing shared
groups with a number of views
When this is the case you may—your user rights permitting—immediately begin using
the views in the shared groups for viewing live and recorded images. See Viewing Live
Images on page 32 and Viewing Recorded Images on page 37. Only if you want to add
more views, e.g. customize your Smart Client with views in private groups, do you
need to create further views on the Setup tab.
 If the Views section contains only the two top-level folders, Private and Shared, without
any content in any of the two folders, no views are available.