The Mappings Pane lets you define what mappings you want and allows you to review and change them at any time. If you're not sure what mappings are you must read the What are Mappings? topic which will make understanding this topic that much easier.
Below is a screenshot of how your mappings would look after running FilFolio™ for the very first time. As a default, FilFolio™ assumes that you want to include all EXIF metadata in your mappings, so it enables all of them and they appear as red blobs in the first column of the grid. Go ahead and click on the screenshot to find out more about the different features.
After you've created the necessary custom fields in your Portfolio™ catalog, the mappings pane would look like this:
The process of defining and setting up your mappings is described in detail in Setting up your Mappings... and the three topics that follow it.
Obviously, when you first run FilFolio™, you don't have any mappings set up which is why FilFolio™ creates a default set for you (in the hope that this will be helpful). When it does this, FilFolio™ stores the initial mappings it creates in what is called the Default Global Mappings File and this file is given the name: FilFolio Default Mappings.ffmap
You can find this file in the mappings folder (refer to the Options Pane description to find out where this folder is on your PC) and FilFolio™ will continue to use this mappings file until you tell it otherwise. In fact, it will use this mappings file for all your catalogs unless you tell it otherwise. So, how do you tell it to use a different mappings file? Well, just click on the Mappings Action Button (shown below) and then click on the Save Mappings for this catalogue. That's it! The new mappings file will be named <catalog name>.fdb.ffmap and it will be stored in the mappings folder. The default global mappings file will remain as it was and FilFolio™ will continue to use it for all other catalogs that you haven't saved a mappings file for.
What's the use of these 2 different kinds of mappings file? Well, if you consistently use the same mappings all the time on all your catalogs, then it makes sense to always use the default global mappings. To this end, FilFolio™ lets you set this explicitly from the Options Pane. On the other hand, you may have reasons to want certain metadata in one catalog and certain other metadata in another - and that's exactly when you'd want to have catalog-specific mappings.
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Last edited: 25/05/01
FilFolio©2001 T F Letocha. All Rights Reserved.