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Locating Archived Video via an Archived Alarm or Event

Follow this approach when the video you want to view coincided with an alarm or event, and you know the approximate date/time of the alarm
or event. In this scenario, you use an estimate of the date/time to locate the alarm or event in the Session Manager, then drag the alarm or event
from the Session Manager to the custom window to copy the selection to the window. You can only use this approach if the alarm or event is
archived.
1. If necessary, open the Session Manager by selecting Session Manager from the View menu.
2. Click the Archive View button on the Session Manager tool bar to go into Archive View. The Event Picker appears at the bottom of the
Session Manager window, with an area for listing archived alarms and events above it.
3. Use the Session Manager’s Event Picker to select a date/time as close to the date/time of the alarm or event as possible, either by building
a date/time from the year down, or by zooming to a time unit. Refer to the Event Picker - Building a Date/Time and Zooming to a Time Unit
sections for instructions. The selected date/time appears in the bottom row of the Event Picker.
Figure 56. Using an Alarm or Event to Locate Archived Video
4. Click the date/time in the bottom row of the Session Manager’s Event Picker. A list of the retrieved alarms and events appears in the
Session Manager window, above the Event Picker. As well, each archived alarm or event is represented as a small vertical bar in the Event
Picker’s Event Row. Each entry in the list is colored the same as the corresponding bar in the Event row.
Only the alarms and events for the selected time period are retrieved. For example, if you specified a date/time down to the hour, only the
archived alarms and events for that hour appear.
5. Locate the alarm or event by browsing or filtering the archives. Refer to Event Picker for instructions.
6. Drag the alarm or event from the list in the Session Manager to the custom window’s display area. The custom window’s Event Picker
acquires the same selection as the Session Manager’s Event Picker, including the date/time range and the alarm or event selected.
If the system administrator has associated the alarm or event with a camera, VMX300(-E) switches the camera to the window and retrieves
its archived video, cued to the date/time of the alarm or event. For example, the system administrator might associate a door alarm with a