Create rules for point-of-sale devices

Last modified: Tuesday September 05, 2023.

Create a rule to alert your operators when certain activities occur at your cash point-of-sale (POS) devices.

Prerequisites

To use Date & Time Templates settings, make sure you have configured them before creating the rule.

Task — Create the point-of-sale rule

1. Choose New tool > Rules.
2. Click Add rule.
3. Type a name for the rule.
4. Choose .
5. Set the Level of importance.
   High importance rules prioritize the cameras displayed in the Video view when a rule is triggered.
6. Click Next.
7. Select the type of data you want to trigger on: Text, and/or Price.
8. Depending on your chosen data selection, select further characteristics for your rule.
   For Text rules, define the text to be matched.
   For Price rules, select More than, Less than, or Equal to. Type the value to be matched.
9. Click Next.
10. Select the points of sale that this rule is to be used with:
    
1. Use Search to help find the required cameras in the list.
2. Click to filter POS devices by name, or click to filter by label.
11. Click Next.
12. Specify your required Date & Time and RULE ACTIVATION settings.
    If you have predefined them, use Templates to simplify adding the same date and time parameters to multiple rules.
13. Click Next.
14. Select your required actions. Select from:
    • Pop-up — when triggered, pops up a notification in Alta Video that includes a thumbnail view of the camera view that triggered the rule.
      To receive notifications on the Alta Video mobile app, check Also send a push notification on the mobile app.
    • Email — when triggered, an email message is sent to the defined user or group of users.
    • External link— when triggered, Alta Video automatically creates a shared external link that can be embedded in an Email or Webhook notification.
    • Webhook — when triggered, enables notification via a webhook to your preferred communication system.

    Alarms are only shown to operators that have access to the cameras that trigger the rule.

15. Click Done.