Search for point-of-sale events

Last modified: Tuesday September 05, 2023.

Search for specific data from your point-of-sale (POS) devices, for example, a particular product name, or for a sale where an object has a price over a set amount.

Task — Search point-of-sale events

  1. From the toolbar, open new tool button > search tool button Search.
  2. Choose Search >Point of Sale search Point of Sale.
  3. Select What you want to find: Text and/or Price
  4. 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.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Select the POS device to be analyzed.
    1. Use Search to help find the required cameras in the list.
    2. Click Site and device groups icon to filter cameras by site name, device group name, and device name, or click Labels icon to filter by label.
    3. If you have predefined them, use Camera presets to simplify adding the same groups of cameras to multiple rules.
  7. Choose Next.
  8. Select or enter the required times and dates to search.
  9. Choose Search.
  10. The results from your search are displayed:
    1. Hover over a thumbnail to view a short video replay of the detected object.
    2. Click Play button Open video to view a clip in a larger window.
    3. Similar results are collapsed together:
      1. Click Collapsed results icon Collapsed results to view each result in the sequence.
      2. You can disabled or enabled this feature from list options button List options> Collapse similar results.
    4. To exclude an object from the search, right-click the thumbnail and select Hide this & similar results.
    5. Alta Video excludes low-matched results by default. To include them, enable list options button List options > Show low matched results.
  11. For each video of interest, hover over the thumbnail and choose Add Select video.
  12. To refine the search based on your selected videos, choose Similarity search Similarity.
  13. To export, share, or bookmark the search, choose Export and External link button Share or save.
    1. For more information, see:
      How to: Export video clips from Alta Video
      Share links to video clips
      Bookmark video clips
  14. Optionally, click Create a rule Create a rule to define a rule with the same parameters as your search.
    1. Enter a name for the rule and choose Create.
    2. Specify When the rule will apply.
    3. Choose Next.
    4. Select the actions taken when the rules is triggered:
      • Pop-up — a pop-up notification in Alta Video including a thumbnail of the triggered camera view. To receive notifications on the Alta Video mobile app, check Also send a push notification on the mobile app.
      • Email — an email message sent to a defined user or user group.
      • External link— a shared external link that can be embedded in an Email or Webhook notification.
      • Webhook — notification via a webhook to your preferred communication system.

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

    5. Choose if you require your operators to acknowledge the rule when it is triggered.
    6. Choose Done.

Task — Search using Search History

Alta Video stores the last five searches made by each user.

  1. From the toolbar, open new tool button > search tool button Search.
  2. Choose Search History
  3. Rerun the required search by selecting it from the list.

Task — Select List options

  1. Click List options List options.
  2. To display more results, enable Show low matched results.
  3. To display similar results collapsed into a single results spot, enable Collapse similar results.
  4. Click Done.