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Title: Categories
Post by: cthomas on October 21, 2019, 07:31:57 PM
My Universal Catalog is the start of my category tree. So how can I create some  categories like these?

Title: Re: Categories
Post by: Jingo on October 21, 2019, 07:37:49 PM
Hi Carl - check out the extensive help system for Categories here: https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#cat_basics.htm
Title: Re: Categories
Post by: Mario on October 21, 2019, 07:40:10 PM
There are also some videos explaining how to use categories in the IMatch Learning Center:

https://www.photools.com/imatch-learning-center/

Side note: The "Universal Catalog" was a set of standard categories used with IMatch 3...
Title: Re: Categories
Post by: cthomas on October 26, 2019, 10:12:56 PM
Quote from: Mario on October 21, 2019, 07:40:10 PM
There are also some videos explaining how to use categories in the IMatch Learning Center:

https://www.photools.com/imatch-learning-center/

Side note: The "Universal Catalog" was a set of standard categories used with IMatch 3...

This is the way that I see to do my categories. Would some body take a look at this and see if this is right.
Title: Re: Categories
Post by: Mario on October 26, 2019, 11:18:44 PM
Use the "New Categories..." command in the Category View or Category Panel.
When you right-click "Universal Catalog" and then use this command, you can enter

What|Animals & Pets
What|Arts & Architecture

and IMatch creates the What and the other levels automatically.

Note: It is unclear why you do that. Do you want to manually re-create the old Universal Catalog categories used by IMatch 3?
Of so, you can import the old IMatch 3 Universal Catalog from the attached IMCS category schema.
Download it to your PC and Unzip.
Then use the Category Import in the Import & Export panel to import the schema into your database.
See: Category Import (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#impexp_groups.htm?dl=h-4)
Title: Re: Categories
Post by: cthomas on October 29, 2019, 07:38:45 PM
Quote from: Mario on October 26, 2019, 11:18:44 PM
Use the "New Categories..." command in the Category View or Category Panel.
When you right-click "Universal Catalog" and then use this command, you can enter

What|Animals & Pets
What|Arts & Architecture

and IMatch creates the What and the other levels automatically.
See: Category Import (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#impexp_groups.htm?dl=h-4)

I have looked and looked and I cannot see a "New Categories..." command.

Title: Re: Categories
Post by: JohnZeman on October 29, 2019, 08:46:00 PM
Carl first select the category you want to create a new child category for then simply press the INSERT key on your keyboard.

Or with your mouse right click the category and choose the create new category command you want.
Title: Re: Categories
Post by: Mario on October 29, 2019, 08:50:34 PM
Yep.

Right-click the category you want to use as a parent for the new categories to open the menu. Same thing as everywhere in IMatch. Right-clicking brings up the context menu for the clicked object, with all commands available for it.