You are here: Catalog > Adding a New Media Catalog

 

Adding a New Media Catalog

Add a media catalog to an existing catalog or sub-catalog

A- Add a media catalog to an existing catalog.

This can be done only when the Media Catalog is undocked.

Example: Adding a Catalog of Plants

  1. Choose the Plants category icon
  2. Right click on the plant icon and then choose the subcategory Trees
  3. Click on the Add folder button
  4. Then browse your hard drive to select the new catalog
  5. The new catalog is displayed in the toolbar; the name is displayed in blue.

    B- Add a sub-category of media to an existing sub-category.

    1. Add a sub-category folder to an existing sub-category

    In the Plant catalog we are going to add a sub-category to the existing sub-category Tropical Plants.

  6. Choose the Plants sub-category
  7. Select the Plants category, then the Tropical Plants sub-category and the current content of the sub-folder will be displayed. Open the drawer on the left-hand side.

    The left column displays the current sub-category of the Tropical Plants folder.

    Browse through your hard drive and select the new sub-category to add.

    It will be displayed in blue.

    Click again on the sub-category Tropical Plants and the content of the two current sub-categories will be displayed. It is possible to have different media stored in different places on our hard drive or our network, but we can still see this media in a sub-category of the catalog.

Example

Deleting a Subcategory

Right click on the subcategory and choose Delete.

 

Artlantis User Guide:Adding a New Media Catalog

 

© 2016 Abvent www.artlantis.com