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We
are continuing from Part 1
tutorial on Creating Categories and Sub-Categories.
Now for the
second image.
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Again,
my choice of headings may not seem proper to you but these can be changed very easily and Cat3
Tutorial shows you that.
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I
click the second Image much like I did for the first image, to
highlight it
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Proceed
to the data area where I fill in my image's details.
I named the Button Spider Image a 'Crawlie1' and looked to see if
there was (in the
Category droplist) a previously entered Category suitable
for this specimen.
One of the attributes of the software
is that
as the categories and sub-categories are created (that's when
they appear in the list of the tree/directory area), they also
get added to the respective droplist of the data area.
I found
only Lepidoptera category listed, and spiders do not belong to
this classification, so I
have to type a new category....
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I
type the new suitable category 'Aranea', for my Image.
I check the droplist for previously entered suitable
Sub-Categories and find none.
This because it is the first time the Category 'Aranea' was
listed and it still has no entered Sub-Categories under
it.
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I
type a new Sub-Category for my 'ARANEA' specimen, named
Labidognatus' .
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After
'Saving' (It is important to always save your work and this MUST become second nature from day one
of using the catalogue), I confirm the automatic addition to the tree/directory area of the newly
created Category and Sub-Category.
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Refresh
the View, (Click the tree area or right-Click and chose refresh
view), and the image area gets updated leaving only those images
to be dealt with next.
I proceeded to add a few other pics in
the same fashion as the previous ones and all had their own
Categories and Sub-Categories different from those previously
entered. So now we have a few more names in the tree/directory area.
Now I handle my next image, that of a Mopane Worm. I call
it Worm in the name field (that's after I clicked the image to
highlight it)
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My
Worm is actually a Moth in one of it's phases, So it belongs to the Lepidoptera Category.
Because I had a previous
Lepidoptera (a Butterfly) entered the Category is already
present in the droplist for Categories, meaning I click from the
droplist this name, and it gets loaded automatically for
me in the category field.
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I haven't 'Moth'
Sub-Category listed in the Sub-Categories as this is my first
Moth, so I enter it by
typing it in the Sub-Category field.
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Naturally
the automatic loading of these additions appear automatically in the tree/directory area.
Now the LEPIDOPTERA
Category has two Sub-Categories : Butterflies and moths.....
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This
other Image is also a different one.
This time, my last Image is a spider. I
have dealt with a spider before and it was a sedentary creature,
so, much the same as the previous one.
I click it to highlight
it,
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In
the data area name it my choice, then go for the Category
droplist and find a suitable named category entered, which is ARANEA.
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I then go for the Sub-Category, and this time there is a
correct Sub-Category loaded in the droplist from the previous
image dealt with (my first Image) which corresponds to the same
type of classification, Labidognatus. Click it so it
loads in the field automatically.....
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And
there it is..... the tree/directory area shows that the Category
ARANEA has one Sub-Category although the Sub-Category has in
fact two images belonging to it.
This is because both are 'Aranea'-'Labidognatus' type spiders,
so naturally must be in the same Category and Sub-Category.
To confirm this, I click the Sub-category (the lowest rank in the
Tree/directory) so that the images therein contained appear in
the catalogue image area.
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And
there they are!!
Clicking each will load the respective details in the data area
so you can read the info you entered.
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One
Point of Note:
It is suggested that one load images (and
keep them stored in) from a CD-Rom or other removable media. The
reason for this is that apart from ensuring that your PC hard
drive does not get overloaded with images and robbed of obvious space
(it only deals with the images when these are present in the
catalogue not when they are 'resting' in their place of Storage
such as the removable media), it also enables you to keep neatly
organized the images bank and all you have to ensure is that you
mark the disc with a numbered label which corresponds to one of
the fields in the properties (you'll learn about the properties
in Cat3) for easy
identification.
If you were to Open the example catalogue I did now without the
Original Disc where I got the images from, you would get
'placeholders' in place of the actual images, but a glance at
the data fields (where you would have allocated one field for
'Disc No.') would tell you which disc it is that contains those
images....
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and
by loading the disc in the PC disc Tray and clicking 'refresh
view' in the tree/directory area, you would load the images, and
the placeholders would cancel out. You'll learn
about the properties in Cat3.
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Here
is the catalogue refreshed and images back in sight!
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This
is my final result. The small Catalogue is done and with one
Final look at the Tree area/Directory, I can understand at a
glance my Categories and Sub-Categories database
structure.
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