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Hotlist entity
• Comma (,)
• Semi-colon (;)
• Tab (Tab)
If your hotlist file uses Tab as a delimiter (i.e. the “Tab” key on your keyboard), type the
word “Tab” as the delimiter character.
IMPORTANT Security Center considers one Tab space to be a valid delimiter. Do not use
more than one Tab space to align columns in your hotlist file or Security Center may not
be able to parse the hotlist.
• Attributes. Tells Security Center the name and order of the fields in the source text file.
From the Attributes area, you can add, delete, or edit the data fields (attributes).
• Category. (Mandatory field) Reason why a license plate number is wanted. For
example: Scofflaw, Stolen, Amber alert, Wanted felon, and so on. When a hit occurs,
this field is displayed on the hit screen in Patroller and Security Desk.
• PlateState. (Mandatory field) Issuing state (or province, or country) of the license
plate. Patroller uses the PlateNumber to match against a plate read. When a hit
occurs, this field is displayed on the hit screen in Patroller and Security Desk.
• PlateNumber. (Mandatory field) The license plate number.
The following fields are shown by default, but are optional. If there is no start or end
date for the hotlist, you can delete these fields, or simply leave them blank.
• EffectiveDate. Date at which the hotlist starts to be effective.
• ExpiryDate. Date after which the hotlist is no longer valid.
IMPORTANT Please note the following about hotlist attributes.
• The hotlist text file must include Category, PlateState, and PlateNumber fields. For
this reason, these fields already appear in the attribute list and cannot be deleted
from the list.
• There cannot be any spaces within an attribute name.
• You can have a maximum of two wildcard characters (asterisk *) in a PlateNumber.
• Add ( ) or Edit ( ) a hotlist attribute. Configure the following:
• Name. Name of the field. It may contain spaces. Only the three compulsory fields,
Category, PlateState and PlateNumber cannot be renamed.
• Default value. The default value is interpreted differently depending on whether
delimiters are used or not.
If delimeters are in use, the default value is written into this field. Fields already
populated will be overwritten.
If delimeters are not in use, and if the field is empty, the default value is written
into this field. Fields already populated will not be overwritten.
• Translate. You can apply an optional transformation to the values read from the data
file. Use this feature to shorten certain values to save space on the Patroller or to
enforce spelling consistency.
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