User Buttons

User buttons are visual controls used in Macula Monitor and Macula Mobile for manual event triggering. Once you have created a user button, it will become available in the Event & Action Configurator and you will be able to assign actions to the User button clicked event.

After a user button has been created and associated with at least one action, you will be able to use it in the following ways:

• bind the user button to a channel or channels so that it appears as a live video overlay control in the Macula Monitor application

• place the user button marker onto maps

• trigger it from the Macula Monitor application from the user button list, from any map or from the channel overlay controls

• highlight it on a map or all maps where the corresponding marker is present

• trigger it from the Macula Mobile application

To access user button management via Macula Console, select the Configuration section from the bottom left menu and then click User buttons in the menu on the left.

New User Button

Click the + New user button on the upper panel to bring up the configuration dialog box.

On the Details tab, enter a name for the resource and choose Folder attachment.

Switch to the Membership tab to choose groups for this user button to become a member of: select groups by double-clicking items in both columns or by using the Add/Remove buttons below. Apart from grouping, this tab allows you to bind user buttons to particular channels.

Starting from the software version 1.5.0, user buttons can be bound to one or more channels for their presentation in Macula Monitor. This means that once such a channel is put into a viewport, the related user button automatically appears with it. The same user button can be also manually put into other viewports and also removed from the bound channels in the live view without any limitations. Multiple user buttons per channel are allowed.

In order to set this up, open the target user button for editing, go to the Membership tab and add the desired channel(s) from the right-hand column (the same one that contains user button groups).

The Permissions tab allows you to choose which users and user groups will be privileged to have access to this resource. Select at least one permission to select the user/user group; deselect by unmarking manually or using the Clear button below.

When you are finished, click OK to save and close the dialog box. The newly created user button will appear in the item list. Use the buttons on the upper panels to perform item-specific actions: remove, edit and quickly assign user button group; filters on the bottom panel will help you switch between recently created/updated items and load user buttons/button groups only.

New User Button Group

For easier management, user buttons can be grouped together. Click the drop-down arrow next to the + New user button and select New user button group to bring up the configuration dialog box.

Switch to the Members tab to choose resources for this group. Double-click items or use the Add/Remove buttons below to manipulate resources; use the Search field in the upper-right-hand corner to quickly find entries in the list.

Using the Membership tab, you can choose groups for this user button to become a member of; select groups by double-clicking items in both columns or by using the Add/Remove buttons below.

Permissions tab allows you to choose users and user groups privileged to have access to this resource. Select at least one permission to select the user/user group; deselect by unchecking manually or using the Clear button below to remove all permissions.

When you have finished, click OK to save and close the dialog box. The newly created user button will appear in the item list. Use the buttons on the upper panels to perform item-specific actions: remove, edit and quickly assign user button group; filters on the bottom panel will help you switch between recently created/updated items and load user buttons/button groups only.