Explorer Pane

Explorer Pane

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The Explorer Pane lets you do two things:

	1.	At its simplest level, the Explorer Pane lets you examine the metadata inside your image files before you've used FilFolio™ to put that metadata into your catalog.

	2.	By looking at the actual metadata present in your images you might get a better idea of what mappings you want to set up. So this pane enables you to easily add items to and remove items from your mappings. You do this in conjunction with the Explorer Action button and you can read more about it later in this topic.

This is what it looks like when exploring! Click on the diagram for more information and see below for a description of the Explorer Action button.

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Click the File Navigation Buttons to look at the metadata in your files, but be sure to use the Explorer Action Button to choose between looking at:

·	only those files that have been selected in the current gallery (Explore Selected); and
·	all the files in the current gallery (Explore All - the default setting).

The File Navigation Buttons look like this

and they allow you to move through the current gallery image by image, forwards and backwards or jump to the first and last images in the gallery.

This is the Explorer Action Button.

Apart from choosing to explore all or just the selected images in the current gallery, you can use it to:

·	Add all of the metadata items currently being displayed in the Explorer Pane to your current mappings.

·	Or, if you just select a number of the metadata items (by using combinations of click, shift-click and control-click in the grid), you can add just those to your current mappings.

·	Conversely, you can remove all of the metadata items currently on display in the Explorer Pane from your current mappings. All those marked with a green blob or a red blob will be removed from the mappings and so will be redisplayed as unmarked. Those that are unmarked to start with will remain so.

·	Or, by just selecting a few of the metadata items (again by using combinations of click, shift-click and control-click in the grid), you can selectively remove just those from the mappings.

·	And finally, you can copy the metadata field names to the clipboard to assist you when you come to create the required custom fields in Portfolio™.