Entity management: Position view

To manage
entities subject to intelligence:
  • Intelligence section, double-click an operation, click Position map
Purpose

This function lets you:

NOTE: the function requires a user license and is only enabled if the user has Entity management authorization.

What the function looks like

This is what the page looks like:

Area Description
1

RCS menu.

2

Scroll bar

3

Window toolbar. Descriptions are provided below:

Icon Function
Creates a new entity

Editing an entity

Deletes an entity
Exports entity data in .html format

Open the target page associated with the entity See "Target page".

Opens the evidence associated with the selected link. See "Evidence analysis (Evidence)".

: creates a link

: edits a link

: deletes a link

: applies a level of relevance to a link

4

View and search box buttons:

Object Description

Search box. Enter part of the name or description to display a list of entities that contain the entered letters.

Displays the entities in a table. See "Entity management: icon and table views".

Displays entities as icons See "Entity management: icon and table views".

Displays Target and Position entities and their links on a map.

Displays entities and their links in a graph. See "Entity management: link view".

5

Filter area

6

Entity map and links based on set filters

NOTE: the target entity is positioned in the last position acquired in the selected period.

NOTE: manually created links are always displayed regardless of the selected period.

7

Selected entity data.

8 Command to display Target entity movements based on set filters.
9

RCS status bar.

 

To learn more

For interface element descriptions see "Shared interface elements and actions".

To learn more on intelligence see "What you should know about intelligence".

Viewing entity details

To view entity details:

Step Action
1

Double-click an entity: the detail page opens.

  • "Target entity details" .
  • "Person entity details" .
  • "Position entity details" .
Creating a link between two entities

To create a link between two entities:

Step Action
1

Select a Target entity and Position entity holding down the Ctrl key on the keyboard.

2

Select the level of relevance and click Save.

Result: the link is displayed in the graph

Dynamically displaying target movements

To manage dynamically displayed target movements:

Step Action
1

Make sure the entities displayed on the graph and the selected time period are those required.

Use the filters to set preferences.

2

Click Play to display.

Result: the Target entities displayed on the map move according to the movements logged in evidence.

NOTE: if there is no evidence on the target position in the selected period, the Target entity remains on the last position acquired but its icon slowly fades until it disappears or appears in the next logged position.

3

Click Stop to stop the display.