Editing a Personal Collection
The Personal Collection Editor is a tool that allows you to add media and data to your collection. Media must come first. Data can then be attached to the media.
Overview of Personal Collection Editor Components
As you step through the process of adding media and data to your Personal Collection, the Personal Collection Editor will change to address your needs. The Editor screen consists of these components:
Task Bar
provides three buttons to let you rapidly jump between the editor panels while editing your collection. The and scrolling buttons are disabled, since all buttons are visible in the Editor (they are useful in the Wizard, for creating new Personal Collections).
Status Bar
tells you which task step you are performing.
Help Panel
displays tips and descriptions for the current task.
Work Area
It is here that you edit your collection, adding media and data.
Action Bar
contains buttons that act upon entries in the Work Area. Action buttons change depending on which task you are performing.
Steps to Edit your Personal Collection
The following steps will guide you through creating your Insight Collection:
1. Import Media
2. Select Media
3. Catalog Media
Import Media
Images and other media are imported by building a list of items to import, and then importing from the list.
About the Media List
The Media List is an assembly of items collected for import into the Personal Collection during this session. When items are added to the list, they are flagged as “Pending.” Once imported, they are then flagged as “Complete.”
The Media List exists only during the life of the current editing session. It is not a permanent import log. “Pending” entries will not be retained from session to session. Upon exiting the Personal Insight Editor, the Media List is discarded.
Importing media is a two step process.
Building the Media List
Importing the Media List
Building the Media List
There are two methods of building the Media List.
Drag and Drop
Media items of acceptable types may be dragged from other applications into the Media List. You will be unable to drop unacceptable media types into the Media List.
ii) Browse
Press the button to open a file import dialog that lets you navigate to directories on your system containing media. You may select multiple files. All selected files will be added to the Media List.
Importing the Media List
Press import to invoke the importer. The importer will process “Pending” items in the Media List (“Complete” items will be skipped). The importer creates the full suite of Insight Images for all known image types and brings media of other types into the collection unchanged. The importer also creates a data record for each Media List item processed.
NOTE: unlike , processes the entire list, not just the highlighted item(s).
Action Buttons Available to You
to open a file import dialog that lets you navigate to directories on your system containing media. You may select multiple files. All selected files will be added to the Media List.
to delete highlighted Media List item(s). Media List items deleted while in a “Pending” state will not be imported. Deleting a Media List item in a “Complete” state has no effect, that item has already been imported.
to cancel an import in process. Media List entries that are marked “Complete” are already imported and not affected by . Media List entries still marked “Pending” will remain pending.
invokes the importer (see Importing the Media List above).