Send a view to a detached window

If you have several monitors and want to view video from multiple views at the same time, you can send views to detached windows as a display window or a floating window.

You can open any number of detached windows and drag them to any monitor that is connected to your computer.

A person looking at three monitors. The monitors display XProtect Smart Client views.

  1. On the Views pane, right-click the view you want to send to a detached window.

  2. Select Send view to and then the detached window to send the view to.

    Send views to displays in XProtect Smart Client.

See also Additional windows and views tabs.

When you log out of XProtect Smart Client, information about all open windows and tabs is stored on the local computer. To have your workspace arranged as you prefer as soon as you have logged in to XProtect Smart Client, you can define to restore all the windows and tabs. See Define to restore windows and tabs when logging in.