Editing hotlists - Security Center 5.12

From the Hotlist and permit editor task, you can add, remove, or edit entries in your hotlists.

What you should know

• When you edit a hotlist in Config Tool, the linked source TXT file or CSV file is automatically updated. Likewise, if you edit the source file, the Config Tool hotlist is automatically updated.
• To edit a hotlist, you must have the Add entries, Delete entries, and Modify entries privileges for hotlists and permit lists.
• If a hotlist has more than 100000 records, an error message is displayed to inform you that the hotlist is only partially loaded.

A	List of ALPR Managers.
B	Summary pane displaying selected hotlists and permits.
C	Name of the hotlist selected in the summary pane.
D	Available hotlists and permits.
E	Details pane displaying all entries in the selected hotlist or permit. You can modify or delete entries in a hotlist or permit list.
F	Search for a keyword across selected hotlists or permit lists. You can search for a specific date, plate state, plate number, and so on. NOTE: To display hotlists through advanced search, you can click and apply the required filters. For more information, see Searching for entities using the search tool.
G	Add or delete rows from the list or import multiple entries from a CSV or TXT file.
H	Generate selected hotlists or permit lists.
I	Save or cancel your changes.

To add single entries to a hotlist:

1. Open the Hotlist and permit editor task.
   Tip: You can open the task by navigating to ALPR > Hotlists then clicking Edit hotlist ().
2. Select required hotlists or permits and click Generate.
   In the main pane, the following information is displayed:

   • Summary pane: Lists selected hotlists along with the number of entries in each hotlist.
   • Details pane: Shows entries of the hotlist highlighted in summary pane.

   NOTE: The summary pane is displayed only if multiple hotlists are selected.
3. (Optional) Under the Search selected lists section, enter the value you want to search for in the search box. You can search for any value, for example, a specific license plate in both stolen and wanted hotlist.
   NOTE: The search returns any matching strings in any of the hotlist columns. For example, if you search for December (12) in a numeric format, a license plate XYZ123 is also displayed in the results.
   The hotlist and permit task is updated as follows:

   • Summary pane: Lists selected hotlists along with the frequency of the search phrase in each hotlist.
   • Details pane: Shows all entries of the search phrase present in the hotlist highlighted in summary pane.

   
4. From the Hotlist and permit editor task, you can:
   • Add () or remove () vehicle entries.
   • Edit vehicle entries within a hotlist by double clicking on the desired cell.
   • Right-click entries to copy, cut, and paste between hotlists.
     NOTE: You can only move entries within the same Hotlist and permit editor task. If you have two tasks open, you cannot paste between them.
5. Click Save.
   The hotlist and source files are updated and the changes are applied for new license plate reads in Security Center.

To add multiple entries to a hotlist from a CSV or TXT file:

1. Open the Hotlist and permit editor task.
2. Select the hotlist that you want to modify and click Generate.
3. Click Import from file () and select the CSV or TXT file. The file can be local or it can be on a network drive.
4. Select the lines to be imported, ensure that the formats are correct, then click Next.
   Tip: If you want to import all rows but you are not sure how many rows the file contains, enter a high number (for example, 1000) for the End at line. The system ignores blank rows.
   
   NOTE:

   • If the file does not include all of the columns from the hotlist, you must add the missing information manually for the entries to be valid.
   • Security Center supports colon (:), comma (,), semi-colon (;), and Tab (type “Tab”) delimiters.
   • If your source list file uses Tab as a delimiter, only use one Tab space. If you use more than one Tab space to align columns in your file, Security Center might not be able to parse the data.
5. Bind the column names in the file to the attribute names in the Security Desk.
   NOTE: If a binding field is blank, the column is not imported.
   
6. Click Next. The rows are imported into the hotlist file.
7. Click Close and click Save. The hotlist and the hotlist's source file are updated.