Filing Cabinet

This is the default tab and contains the main record information

• Title: The text displayed by the image (online).
• Category: The category that the image is assigned to.
• Place Taken: Alternate index usually used for the place where the shot was taken.
• Photographers: The photographer/author/creator who took the picture/captured the image etc.
• SKU: A unique catalogue number for the image. Optional but useful to assign the photographers own ID. You can use your own format or the Derive Catalogue # command button
• Photo Article: The full URL where a related photo article or extra info can be found on the deployment website (if applicable). If ‘http’ is not included it is assumed to be the path from the company website root.
• Order Priority: The order that the products are displayed in. This is useful for web deployment as images with the highest level appear on the first page. This is also useful to designate your best images. Level 1 images are shown in the Picture of the Day box on your website homepage.
• Royalty Free: designates the image should be royalty free
• Discontinued: hides the image from display online
• Saved To The Web: Flag to confirm saved to the web. When checked the record has already been saved to the web. Uncheck to regenerate during the next Save To The Web operation.
• Date: Date the record was created (auto generated)

The other fields on this tab are for keyword generation. Enter a keyword string to be included when you run the keyword generator. Use for keywords not already included in the category or place taken fields. Click Set to copy the current keywords into memory (to carry them forward to new records). Click Get to retrieve the stored keywords and enter them in the keyword field.

When completed click the Derive Keywords command button. You will then see the Keyword string created by the Keyword Generator. This text cannot be directly edited.

The file format and specifications for the current image are shown here.

• File Path: shows the path to graphics file. You can reset this by clicking the File Path command button, which brings up a dialog.
• Click the File Info button to read and store the current he size of the image file.

IPTC is a widely used format to store text inside certain image files. It is only utilised for JPEG files in this application. If you check Use IPTC on the Options Form the IPTC caption will be use to generate the record name and keywords when you drag/drop in IMAGExplorer

• IPTC Caption: The text stored with the image in the IPTC caption field. Use to watermark your copyright and other info.
• IPTC Keywords: The text stored inside the image in the IPTC keywords field.
• IPTC Copyright: The text stored inside the image in the IPTC Copyright field. This is auto generated by Photo-Db from your company details.

Click the button to auto set the IPTC caption.

• Add sets the current image on the IMAGExplorer to the current record. This is the best way to reassign images to existing records.
• Report opens a report showing all the image files in the library. This command is very useful when your form is filtered as it shows only those images in the filtered collection.
• Open opens the current image in IMAGEditor.
• Flip Thru is a ‘hands free’ alternative method (to the navigation buttons) to move though all the records. Press once to start, press again to stop.
• Dupes is a special filter that shows all duplicate images in the library (by file path). Remove the filter by clicking the filter button on the application toolbar (or by applying another filter)
• Find File instigates a search