Alarms and Notifications
The Macula Monitor application has several ways of displaying different notifications received from the servers. Depending on the alert type and/or configuration, they may appear in the live notification pane (channel overlay), in the Alarm pane, in the dedicated Alerts tab, or as popup dialog boxes.
Notification Panel
Each channel in the live view has an overlay notification panel. It is hidden by default and can be toggled by clicking the corresponding 
overlay element in the bottom-right-hand corner of the viewport. Depending on your application settings, this overlay control may be disabled, shown always, or only shown when the viewport is selected (default setting).
This pane displays several types of messages related to the target channel:
streaming errors (RTSP, wrong password, etc.)
text notifications from E&A (pre-configured)
results from external services (e.g., recognized license plates with thumbnails)
other custom event messages (pro-configured on the server side via Macula Console)
Messages related to the video archive (e.g., recognition results) are interactive meaning that you can double-click them to go to that moment in the archive.
For this panel, there are two configurable settings in the application settings: font size and an option to display thumbnails (tiny images) for the external service results. You can also adjust the panel appearance for each viewport individually; for this, long press your left mouse button on the panel and then click the Edit button (with the pencil). The process is described in more details in the Overlay section of this document.
Alarms Pane
Alarms are generated by the connected servers or created "on the fly" by the user. You can find the Alarms Pane from the right side of your Macula Monitor in the Live View mode. Alarms, in their essence, are the Bookmarks and possess all their features: Severity, Color, Status, and Comments. Alarms (Bookmarks) are also available through the Search in the Playback mode of the Macula Monitor application.
Enabling Alarms Pane
You can hide or enable the Alarms Pane in the Main menu -> Edit -> Settings -> Usability -> Enable Alarm Pane.
You can mark the Show alarm pane in all tabs checkbox to see the Alarm pane in all monitor tabs, or leave it unmarked, so the pane is visible only in the Live view tab.
Users with administrator permissions can also turn off the Alarms Pane in the Main menu -> Tools -> Administration Tool -> Interface -> Alarms.
By turning off the Alarms Pane in the Administration Tool, you override it in the Edit -> Settings -> Usability, and even if the Alarms Pane checkbox is marked there, the pane will stay hidden in the application window unless you enable it back in the Administration Tool.
Alarms Pane Interface
If the Alarms Pane is turned on in the settings, by default, you will see the tab with a bell icon on top of the pane with the notification bubble over the icon. This bubble means that you have new events. The number inside the bubble provides info on the number of the Alarms with the Status NEW. The Notification bubble will also appear in the upper-left corner, over the Live View tab in the Main menu. The number displayed in the notification bubble over the Live View tab summarizes all the Alarms Pane active Notification bubbles.
You can expand and collapse the Alarms Pane by clicking on the "two arrows" icon on the top of the Alarms Pane. It will expand the pane and show the Alarm Tab (Alarm filter preset) names. New Alarm Tabs will appear vertically in this pane. If you lock the Alarm Tab, the new section will appear on the top of the pane. You can readjust the Alarm Tab order by dragging and dropping it inside the corresponding pane section.
You can't drag and drop Alarm Tabs from the locked pane section to the unlocked and vice versa.
At the bottom of the Alarm Pane, a button named "Next Alarm Tab->" is located. You can use this button to navigate through the Alarm Tabs with the active notifications (Alarm Tabs that contain bookmarks with the status NEW).
If the number of the Alarm Tabs (Alarm filter presets) exceeds the screen height, you can scroll through your list of Alarm Tabs with the mouse or by interacting with the scroll bar on the right side of the pane.
You can also resize the alarm pane by grabbing it by the side and pushing or pulling while keeping the mouse button pressed down.
Single Alarm (Bookmark) Pop-up Window
As mentioned previously, in their essence, Alarms are Bookmarks and possess all their properties. Alarms can be generated on the server side by the Events and Actions or created by the user manually. You can raise an Alarm by adding the bookmark in the Live View mode and marking the related checkbox at the bottom of the Add Bookmark pop-up window.
Single-click on the Alarm Tab name or icon will bring one more panel with the list of all the Alarms (Bookmarks) and their filtering options.
Single-click on the particular Alarm (Bookmark) from the list will pop up a window with this Alarm's properties and available options. Let's review them from top to bottom:
Channel Snapshot with the Overlay Buttons:
You can find the Channel Name at the top-left corner over the Channel Snapshot. At the bottom-right corner over the Channel Snapshot, you can find the controls to pop up bookmarked videos in Live View or Playback mode.
Date and Time: Behind the Channel Snapshot, you can find the date and time of the Bookmark creation.
Alarm: Bookmark name.
Severity: The Severity field displays the Bookmark severity. You can change the Severity by clicking on the three-dots menu on the right side of the entry. Available Severity options: Critical, High, Normal, Low, Info.
Status: Status displays info on the Bookmark processing Status. You can change the Bookmark Status by clicking on the three-dots menu on the right side of the entry. Available Bookmark Statuses are NEW, IN PROGRESS, CLOSED, and HIDDEN.
Bookmark Comments: You can find Bookmark history logs on creation, Status changes, and user Comments inside the Bookmark Comments field.
Add Comment button and an input field: At the bottom of the pop-up window, you can find a Field to add the Comment and a button to publish this Comment to the Bookmark Comments field.
By adding a Comment to the Alarm (Bookmark), you will change its Status from New to In Progress automatically. Severity updates do not influence the Bookmark Status.
You can close the Alarm (Bookmark) pop-up window by clicking on the empty space everywhere outside this pop-up window.
Alarm Tab (Alarm Filter Preset) Interface
On the top of the expanded Alarm Tab, you will find the current Alarm Tab Name, Lock icon, and "Two Arrows" collapse button. If there is more than one Alarm Tab and the tab is not locked in the pane, the Bin icon will also appear in the same row. Single-click on the Lock icon will pin the current filter preset on the top of the Alarms Pane; single-click on the Bin icon will delete the current Alarm Tab (Deleting Alarm Tab does not delete any Bookmarks and only removes the particular filter configuration from the Alarms Pane).
The next row allows you to navigate via multiple Bookmarks, change their Severity and Status in bulk, personalize Alarm Tab presets, and duplicate them.
Alarms (Bookmarks) Bulk-edit (Select Multiple) Options
You can use the Select Multiple button if there are a lot of Alarms (bookmarks) in the particular Alarm Tab filter preset.
Select Multiple icon
: A single click on the icon will bring up checkboxes from the left side of each Bookmark in the list and expand additional interface:Select All button: Marks all the checkboxes from the left of each Bookmark (You also can mark Bookmark checkboxes by hand picking only relevant Bookmarks).
Select New button: Marks checkboxes from the left of each Bookmark with the Status New.
Update Severity dropdown menu: Change severity for all the marked bookmarks (Do Not Change, Info, Low, Normal, High, Critical).
Update Status dropdown menu: Change Status for all the marked Bookmarks (Do Not Change, New, In Progress, Closed, Hidden).
Cancel and Apply buttons: Cancels not applied changes or Updates Severity and Status for all the marked Bookmarks.
Alarm Tab (Alarm Filter Preset) Quick Search
The Search bar input field allows Quick-search through all the Bookmarks by any textual information they contain.
The Search is registry-insensitive and works as soon as you begin typing. By adding the + sign between the keywords, you can match your search results more precisely and exclude all the entries that match search parameters only partially and do not contain both keywords (for example: "in progress" will return all the entries that contain in or progress words. "in+progress" will return matches that have both keywords). You can clean your Search input field by deleting your entry or by clicking on the x icon on the most-right side inside the input field.
Alarm Tab (Alarm Filter Preset) Filtering Settings
Settings icon 
: right next to the Search Bar is an icon with a pencil. Single-click on the icon brings the Alarm Tab filter preset settings. Let's start from the top:
Title input field:
you can change your Alarm Tab filter preset name here. By default, it will be the Alarms.
Icon:
pick a new Icon by clicking the "Change..." button to pop up a new window with all the available pictograms, select one you prefer, and then click OK. To bring a color-picker for the filter icon, click on the square with the current color and pick the color you want to use from the pop-up window.
Text input field:
Allows filtering the Bookmarks by their description. Input the word or phrase you are looking for, click the Apply button, and then click the Refresh button to see the changes. To remove this parameter from the filter results - clean the Text field, click the Apply button again, and then click the Refresh button to align the filtered Bookmark list.
Severity input field:
contains all the Severity tags. You can exclude entries with disabled tags from the filter results by clicking on them. By default - all the values are enabled (Info, Low, Normal, High, Critical).
Status input field:
contains all the Status tags. You can exclude entries with disabled tags from the filter results by clicking on them. By default - all the values except Closed and Hidden are enabled (New, In progress, Closed, Hidden).
Channels and groups field:
The default field value is Any. To filter Bookmarks by the channels, click on the input field. It will pop up a Custom Source selection window. You can add multiple Channels to your selection by clicking on the + sign right of the channel name. Click on the - sign to remove the channel from the selected Channels. Click on the Save button to accept changes, the Reset Selection button to start all from the clean list, or the Cancel button to cancel any adjustments and close the pop-up window;
You can Apply, Cancel, or Reset changes you made by clicking on the matching button. The Refresh button allows you to align your Bookmark list according to the current settings configuration.
Alarm Tab (Alarm Filter Preset) Duplication
The Copy icon 
is in the most-right position, behind the Settings icon. It looks like two intersected squares and allows you to make a copy of the selected Alarm Tab. After clicking the Copy icon, your presets will be duplicated and shown as a separate tab in the Alarms Pane. By default, your new Alarm Tab will inherit the name from the source tab and add the word (copy) in the round brackets.
Alarms (Bookmarks) Export
You can find the Export button at the bottom-left corner of the Alarm Tab. A single click on the Export button will bring up export options: As XLS...; As PDF...; As CSV...
Pick a format from the appearing list and click on it to export your Bookmarks. You can find your Export results in the Library tab from the Main menu.
Alerts Tab
The Alerts section of Macula Monitor acts like a temporary client audit log that is purged after the app is closed. It features:
automatic server notifications: logon/logout, channel events etc.
pre-configured server notifications (via E&A)
local client events - layout popup, user button triggered, etc.
miscellaneous errors that arise during operation and are related to the current client instance: stream errors, server connectivity issues, device connection errors and others.
These messages have three severity levels: info, warning, and critical. Critical level is assigned to the most important messages like connection failures. Notifications from Macula E&A (pre-configured notifications) are displayed as warnings. Regular notifications are informative and are therefore marked as Info. For example, if archive is corrupt or has been altered with third-party tools, a critical warning will appear in the Alerts tab. Whenever there are new alerts, a red counter will appear next to the tab name.
Use the Search field in the upper-right-hand corner to filter alert messages.
Along with type and source, alert message and time are shown for each entry. If the message is too long to be displayed in full, hover the mouse cursor over it to read full message text.
Popup Notifications
This kind of alert only appears when triggered from Macula Events & Actions (action type: send event to client + display a warning message box setting). The popup dialog box stays on top and prevents user from accessing any controls in the background until closed. When pre-configuring the action in Macula Console, you can also specify a timeout in seconds, after which the message box will disappear automatically.
If there are several notifications in the queue, they will appear on top of each other (oldest first), and you will have an option to close them all at once by clicking the Close All button.
"Toast" Notifications
You can increase Alerts visibility by enabling "Toasts" notifications. The Toasts are the over-the-top colored notification messages that will appear for a short period inside the Macula Monitor, duplicating the content of the Alerts tab. You can enable this type of alert directly inside the Macula Monitor.
If the Archive Backup Wizard or Administration Tool is open, Toast notifications will not appear unless the Archive Backup Wizard or Administration tool windows are closed.
In the menu (top-right side of the screen), find Edit -> Settings to bring the Monitor settings pop-up window.
Inside the pop-up window, in the left subsection, find the Usability tab and scroll to the bottom.
At the bottom of the window, you will find the Snackbar notifications section.
There are three possible options:
ON with a toggle control in Alerts Section - this option adds the switch inside the Alerts tab, for the quick Toast notification control.
Always ON - Allows Toast notifications without any conditions.
Always OFF - disables Toast notifications completely.
You also can adjust Alert levels by clicking the corresponding Alert type, and select between the left and right screen corners for the Snackbar notifications to appear.
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