Track: Create Cost Centres

Cost Centers were designed to restrict access and visibility between different divisions of the same company. Users and Assets can be assigned a Cost Center, with Users only having access to the Assets assigned to the same Cost Centers.

Cost Centres can be applied to the following items on SureCam View and View Pro:

• Users
• Assets
• Locations
• Alerts
• Reports

Before creating Cost Centres, first decide what the structure should look like, then copy this into the platform. Cost Centres are in a parent-child relationship. There can only be one parent Cost Centre to start with, where a child/children can be added. Those children may then also act as a parent.

As a default, there is one parent Cost Centre in the platform, called Default. This can be renamed, and children created underneath this.

The following steps will help you create and edit cost centres on the platform. 

Creating Cost Centres 

Before assigning assets and users to cost centres, you must first create the new cost centre. Follow the steps below to do this. 

1. Sign into track.surecam.com.
2. Click the "Administration" tab in the left-hand menu. 
3. In the second panel, click the "Cost Centres" tab under the Organization folder
4. Click the plus sign () in the top right corner. 
5. In the pop-up, select the parent cost centre from the dropdown list (Default is the automatic parent for the initial cost centre). 
6. Enter the name for the cost centre in the "Name" textbox. 
7. Click the button in the bottom right corner of the pop-up. 
8. On the next screen, click the button in the bottom right corner of the pop-up to save your changes. 

Editing Cost Centres 

Now that you've created a cost centre, you can apply the cost centre to Users, Assets, Locations, Alerts, and Reports. Follow the steps below to do this. 

1. Sign into track.surecam.com.
2. Click the "Administration" tab in the left-hand menu. 
3. In the second panel, click the "Cost Centres" tab under the Organization folder
4. Click the desired cost centre to the right in the list. 
5. In the right-hand panel that pops up, you can add/remove contacts, assets, and users from the cost centre. 
   • To add contacts to a cost centre, click the edit button () next to Contacts in the Information dropdown. 
   • To add assets to a cost centre, click the Assets dropdown. Next, click the in the bottom panel to add assets.
     • To remove an asset from a cost centre, click the asset in the list from this screen. Then, click the in the bottom panel to remove the asset. 
   • To add users to a cost centre, click the Users dropdown. Next, click the in the bottom panel to add users.
     • To remove a user from a cost centre, click the user in the list from this screen. Then, click the in the bottom panel to remove the user.