Customizing Event Display in the Message Desktops

Desktops > Customizing Event Display in the Message Desktops

1 - From the displayed shortcut menu ( Message desktop > Right-click a message), select Properties .

2 - From the Properties window, select the appropriate display options.

• Multi-line: Usually, events are displayed on a single line. You can increase the line spacing between events by checking the appropriate option (1, 2, 3 or 4 lines).

• Show columns: You can choose to display different types of buttons beside each event.

• Message type —When you select this option, the system inserts an button next to events indicating the type of event. For example, if the event is a “door forced open” an button representing a door is displayed (a hand represents a manual operation, a diskette represents the operation that modified the database, etc.). Access events are represented by the login/logout buttons.

• Picture —When you select this option, the system inserts a card button next to events containing cardholder pictures.

• Fail-soft messages —When you select this option, the system displays a plus (+) sign next to the events that occurred when controllers were off-line.

• Video: check this option if you want the selected desktop to display video data from the video server connected to your system.

• Display account: On the bottom left, check Display account. The desktops window now displays the Account column with the corresponding event for each account.

• The Miscellaneous section allows you to enable additional options:

• Keep card picture —When selected, the system keeps the latest card picture (if the Picture window option is selected) until another event containing a card occurs.

• Display toolbar —Displays/hides the toolbar on the top of the Message Desktop.

• Manual properties save only —When you select this option, you have to click the Save button (once selected, the button is disabled). The system saves all the settings defined in the Properties window as well as the position of the window within the Messages Desktop.

• Display selected messages (full) —When you select this option, a smaller window is added at the bottom portion of the Message window . It displays the selected event with its full description. This feature is very useful when your Message window is too small to display the entire description of an event.

• Display events in bold : select this option to increase the legibility of text event messages displayed in EntraPass desktops (Message list, Filtered messages and Alarm desktops). Moreover, if the colour selected for an event message is the same colour as the background colour, the event message will be displayed in black bold so that it can always stand out. (This option is not available for Archived Messages Lists.)

• Last Message on Top: By default, event messages are displayed in ascending order of occurrence, with the area at the bottom of the screen reserved for the highlighted event. You can select to display the events in descending order, with the highlighted event showing above the list of event messages.

• Auto-scroll delay (mm:ss): Will automatically start scrolling the message list after a pre-set delay when the operator selects an item in the list. By default, this option is turned on with a preset delay. You can select to turn this option off which means that the operator will have to click the Restart Scroll button in the Messages List. (This option is not available for Archived Messages Lists.)

• Message background colour: Allows the operator to modify the background colour of the message window.

• Display event colour in separate column: Event colours can now be displayed in a separate column. Text and message background colours can also be selected.

Note: To change the font colour of system messages: System > Event parameters.