You can customize what to show in the canvas tiles from the Options dialog box.
What you should know
Procedure
- From the homepage, click Options > Visual.
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From the Display timeline list, select when to display
the timeline in tiles for live and playback video:
- Auto-hide
- Only show the timeline when the mouse cursor hovers inside the tile boundaries.
- Always
- Always show the timeline.
- Never
- Never show the timeline.
- To display the on-tile video controls (play, pause, and so on) when you hover your mouse cursor inside a tile, select the Display overlay video controls option.
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To display an entity’s name and full path in the tile toolbar, select the
Display entity names with their full path
option.
An entity’s path is the hierarchy of areas above the entity in the area view. When the path is too long, an “*” is displayed instead." Montreal office/Main entrance", or " */*/Back entrance".NOTE: This option also applies to alarms. When this option is selected, the full path of the entity that triggered the alarm is displayed in the Source column in the Monitoring task and Alarm monitoring task.
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To show the tile toolbar only when you hover your mouse cursor over a tile,
select the Auto-hide tile toolbar option.
When this option is cleared, the tile toolbar is always displayed.
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To show the tile ID number only when you hover your mouse cursor over the tile,
select the Auto-hide tile number option.
When this option is cleared, the tile ID is always displayed.
- Click Save.