Specifications

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Object Association
Introduction
The concept of Object Association refers to linking together otherwise unrelated objects with the
intent of enhancing incident building capability.
The feature enables a ‘Review’ option on the context menu of associated objects. Selecting
Review opens a guard surveillance view displaying the source object and up to 5 associated
objects.
After associations are made, the Review feature is exposed in 3 areas of the client; Reports, Event
Viewer and Activity List.
Note
1. Objects can reference other objects of the same type but cannot reference themselves.
2. Certain supported objects E.G doors, which do not display video, will not display the Guard
surveillance view. In these cases, a Map view will open displaying the objects location if configured
on Maps.
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3. If a source object has no associations, selecting Review will return a view of the type.
4. If the source object is a non-video object and has no associations, the review feature will not be
available for any related events or alerts.
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5. For the feature to function properly, it is recommended all associated objects are synchronized
to a common NTP server.
Typical Use Cases
1 Motion Alarm has been triggered and the associated Event Acknowledged. The user still
needs to view video associated with the Alarm.
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Without Object Association, reporting capabilities only show you the time of the alarm.
The user must open a surveillance window, drag in the camera that caused the alarm and
navigate back to the time of the alarm using the report data.
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With Object Association, the user simply selects the Review option from the report item to
perform all the above functionality automatically.
2 Building on Use Case 1, if there are more cameras associated with the alarm.
Without Object Association the user must find them and drag each camera individually
into a surveillance window and navigate to the time of the alarm.
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