How to Create a Camera Tag for Easy Sorting in Survail
Camera tags allow easy sorting in the survail VMS so that you can easily find what you are looking for. Remote, multi-location, or inexperienced security guards often have difficulty remembering what cameras can see where. This can make finding footage difficult. With Camera Tags, you can remove a user's uncertainty on what to click next to find footage easily.
Finding Views Without Having to Remember Camera Names
What is a Camera Tag?
Camera Tags are any group of cameras. For the purposes of this guide, we will be talking about some camera tags, we use such as "SCW Office," "Warehouse," "Building Doors," "Indoor," "Lot Entrances," "Outdoor," and "Parking."
Camera Tag Experience
In this video, you can see the user has filtered events to only show cameras tagged as "Building Doors" and the event feed responds by only showing events that match this criteria.
Tags Can Be Used with Other Search Criteria
Tags aren't the only way of searching video for events. You can combine tags with other search filters, such as event type, location, recording hardware, specific camera, or date and time. In this video, you can see the combination of events that contain a person and which are on cameras tagged as "Lot Entrance".
Searching Across Multiple Tags at Once
In this video, you can see the combination of events that contain a person AND which are on cameras tagged as "Lot Entrance" OR "Building Doors." Choosing more than tag will result in matching results from all selected tags being displayed.
How to Create a Camera Tag
Log In To Survail
You can log into Survail at https://app.survail.com/.
Click the User Icon and then "Config"
At the top right side of the screen, you can see the user icon. After clicking on the user icon, you can choose to edit settings by clicking "Config". This will lead you to the "Camera Settings" page within the Config submenu.
Click on the "Tags" Tab
On the camera's settings detail page, you want to locate the tags tab in grey above the camera details section. If you are logged out after clicking this, your administrator has not allowed your user account to view or edit tags.
Click the "Add Tag" Button
On the tags settings detail page, you want to click the "Add Tag" button near the top of the tags panel. If you have already created a tag, you will see them here. If
Name Your Tag
The first step in creating a camera tag is naming the tag. The name should be descriptive enough that even someone not acquainted with your camera system should be able to operate Survail. In this guide, we've been talking about the tags we use, like "SCW Office," "Warehouse," "Building Doors," "Indoor," "Lot Entrances," "Outdoor," and "Parking," but things like "Production Line," "Cash Registers," or "Drive Thru" are also great ideas.
Hit the "Next" Button
Once you have chosen a memorable name for this group of cameras, click the "next" button on the bottom right of the modal box.
Add Cameras to the Tag
Tags can have multiple cameras and cameras can have multiple tags. You can create groups like "Parking" and "Outside" where all "Outside" cameras are also "Parking" cameras but not all "Outside" cameras are viewing the "Parking" areas.
Save Tag
Make sure to click "Submit" to save your work. You should now be able to see the camera tag in the event view.
You can also View and Edit Tags on a Camera-by-Camera Basis
Log In To Survail
You can log into Survail at https://app.survail.com/.
Click the User Icon and then "Config"
At the top right side of the screen, you can see the user icon. After clicking on the user icon, you can choose to edit settings by clicking "Config". This will lead you to the "Camera Settings" page within the Config submenu.
Click on a Camera Card
The entire card is clickable and takes your to that camera's settings detail page. If you are logged out after clicking this, your user account is not allowed to view or edit settings.
Locate the Camera Tags Section
On the camera's settings detail page, you can also view and edit the tags associated with any given camera.