The Collection Folder & File (Documents) screen displays the folders and the files present within the folders under a specific collection..
Follow the given procedure to access the Collection Folder & File screen:
The Collection Home screen opens by default when you logging in to the SKYSITE Facilities & Archive application.
In order to navigate to the Collection
Folder & File screen click on present
on the Action Bar at the top right-hand side of the screen.
The Collection
Folder & File screen opens by default. If it does not open
by default or if you are navigating to this screen from any other
screen then click on present at the top right-hand
Sub-Action Bar.
Screenshot displayed below shows the Collection Folder & File screen:
The screen is divided into two sections. The left-hand side grid section displays the folder structure of the selected Collection. Once you select any of the folders, the file present inside the selected folder will be displayed on the right-hand side File display grid.
Collection Selection:
Folders and Files of various Collections can
be viewed one at a time by selected Collection from the Collection Selection drop-down . Once this drop-down is clicked the following Collection Select/Change screen
appears,
Click on any of the Collection Display tiles to select a Collection to view its folders & files (if no Collection is selected) or change current Collection to another Collection in order to view that newly selected Collection's folders & files. The currently selected Collections will appear in green [highlighted by the red rectangle in the screenshot above].
Click on button associated
with each Collection Display Tiles to view Collection information.
You can enter keywords to search for
Collections, reset the search and view only favorite Collections by
clicking these three buttons , respectively.
Creating folder & Uploading Files within selected folders:
Click on (Create
folder button) to create a new folder. Refer Create
Folders for further details.
Click on (Upload
Files button) to upload files inside the selected folder (this
folder is present on the right-hand side grid section). Refer Uploading
Files for more details. This button does not appear at root-level,
that is, when the Documents screen opens directly under a collection.
Description of left-hand side Folder Grid section:
The left-hand side grid section displays the existing folder structure under the selected collection.
Click
on
sign to navigate to folders present inside folders (NOT double-clicking
the folder).
Click on
button to refresh the folder list. Hence, changes made folder list
during an intermediate period after logging on will be reflected after
refreshing the folder list.
Click
button to create a new folder directly under a collection or under
another selected folder
Click on
button to perform other operations on the folder. These
are explained in details under the Working
with folders section of
this help file.
Click
on button to
export the displayed Collection list in the grid section either in
CSV format or directly in an Excel spreadsheet on your local system.
Description of right-hand side File Grid section:
The right-hand side grid section displays the Collection files of the selected folder.
The following operation can be performed on the file:
Click on button present
on each row to download the respective file.
Click
on button
to fill/update file information (General & Custom Properties -
Meta-data information). This is shown below,
You can rename the file, enter or modify the title, enter or modify the description and enter or modify search tags of the file within the General Properties tab. Fields under general properties tab are present by default. Search tags are keywords which are used to search for the file. The fields to be populated or updated under the Custom Properties tab are created by the user through Settings > Custom Lookup Fields.
You can fill up these fields during the time
of File Upload. But you may choose to keep
all these fields blank and later fill it up by clicking button.
The File Name remains what it was before upload but you can change the
name through the Rename File
text field.
Details on meta-data information:
Meta-data is being used to classify the documents
held in your database. All of these fields are searchable and will contain
keywords for identifying documents in the database. Meta-data of any files
can be accessed by clicking on the symbol next to the
file name.
These documents will be searchable from within the files structure and via the global search. Most documents will also be OCR enabled making all text within the documents searchable as well. Access the Universal Search by clicking the drop-down next to the magnifying glass above the file listings.
Click Update & Close after you finish populating/updating the information.
Click on the File
Name link to
open, view and edit file content through the Application Viewer. Details
are given in Viewing
File help file.
Various column details are:
Rev: Displays the Revision Number. If the file is uploaded in the application for the first time then the revision number will be 1. If the file is checked out and then checked in after any edit then the revision number will be 2 and so on. Also, if the same file is uploaded twice and the New Revision radio-button is selected during upload then the revision no. can also become 2.
File Status: The status of the files are displayed here.
Last Check-in: Displays the date & time of the last check-in of the file after modifications. Refer Checking in Files for more detail
Title:
Displays the title of the file.
Entered through General Properties tab which opens after clicking
button.
Description:
Displays a general description
of the file. Entered through General Properties tab which opens
after clicking
button.
File Size: Displays the size of the file in Kilobyte.
Custom
Field Column Headings: These
columns displays the information related to the Custom Fields.
The data displayed in these fields are entered through the Custom
Properties tab which opens after clicking button.
These fields itself are created from Settings > Custom Lookup Fields.
Search files by entering keywords in Search by file name option. Refer Searching File for more info.
You can select which particular columns
to display and in which position the columns will be displayed in
the grid section from the View
Selection drop-down .
Refer Manage View
for more details.
Click (Advanced Search) button to search
for files using custom attributes. Advanced is explained in more detail
here.
Click on
button to export the displayed file list in
the grid section (file name and column heading information) either
in CSV format or directly in an Excel spreadsheet on your local system.
Click on button
to perform other operations on the files.
These are explained in
details under the Working
with files section of this
help file.
Note: Most of the operations given above are explained separately in different help files.
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