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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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