# The Graphic View

You can define a floor plan (ground plan) in the Graphic view and place the cameras or camera groups according to their actual positions. The icon of the corresponding camera turns red in case of an alarm (or green upon a bell event). Move the mouse pointer over the camera icon to show the live image of the triggering camera, allowing you to quickly monitor the situation.
You can use the group buttons of the Command bar to switch on/off the lights of several cameras at once, to open several doors or to make an announcement over several speakers for one or more cameras of the group, regardless of the displayed camera. In addition, you can right-click on the group buttons and open the shortcut menu to control cameras that are not part of the current group.

To make work easier, you can drag elements from the Command bar onto the floor plan and operate them directly in the floor plan by clicking on them.

In case you want to monitor the live images of cameras of other camera groups in the Graphic view, you can temporarily drag these

live images onto the floor plan.

Fig. 26: The Graphic View