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I'd like to request an integer flag that can be set for each event be added. This would allow one to flag different events with different values, then filter the events to pull just the events wanted. For example, this past weekend, some low-life piece of human refuse smashed the window of a car and stole the radio. I created a filter to archive all events for the camera pointed in that direction for the 42 hours that employees were gone. One of the guys reviewed the footage and found several suspicious individuals. (I've burnt the events and gave the disk to the police earlier today actually.) Now I have to go back and manually unarchive all the events except for those that contain footage of something happening.

Also, this would make finding a specific set of events easier. Currently, I have a spreadsheet defined with the event numbers for each, but there are still dozens of events archived for each camera. To find a specific occurrance, I have to go into the archived events for each camera and sort them out based on the time/event numbers. If there were an integer flag added to the events, I could flag each event within each occurrance with a unique value, then filter the events to view only that number. Doing so would allow me to pull up all the angles of a particular event.


Another item that would be nice is another checkbox in the 'Save Filter' dialog. There's an 'Archive All Matches' checkbox - why not have an 'Unarchive All Matches' as well?

BTW, I have continual recording going in 5-minute segments. I don't have motion detection going outside because of balloons, flags, and other attractants which change on a daily basis. The motion detection would've been useless the night this happened anyway, as there was a snowstorm virtually the entire weekend.

Balloons, flags and blizzards!? I'm getting a wonderful image of what your camera might be looking at!

I think I understand what you are after, basically a way of tagging events to associate them with each other? I don't know if perhaps the 'cause' or 'notes' fields of events could be used for this. Although they are text and not integers they would seem the most obvious place for something along these lines. Currently however these are readonly fields however I think they could be made accessible.

I will investigate further to see how easy this would be implement.

Phil

LOL - it's looking at a used car lot in Michigan. We went from near 90 as a high one day to 25 the next a couple of weeks ago. We had a snowstorm all weekend last weekend - a buddy of mine living 30 miles away has almost a foot of new snow on the ground and there's nothing here. Ain't the weather grand?

That's exactly what I'm looking for Phil, although text would be more cumbersome than an integer to enter and search for. Being able to define a filter to pull all the events associated with each other would be a very important ability for me and extremely powerful. (If you term the word 'incident' to mean when somebody breaks in, I want the ability to quickly find all the events for a particular incident, regardless of which monitor they occurred on.)