Introduction

Collections are a way for you to collect Studio Wall items from multiple Studio Walls into a special kind of Studio Wall called a "collection".

Atget Studio's collections are tailored for an educational environment: there is one collection per student, per course. This way, you can collect your favorite photographs from a course into a collection.

For example, if you had a 7-week course, your collection might have 2 images from week 1, 5 from week 2, etc. At the end of the course (or actually any other time) you can refer to your collection to what your favorites have been.

Creating the Collection

Atget Studio creates the Collection for your course automaticaly the first time you add an item to the current collection (see below). Here's what that looks like on your Atget Studio page:

In this example, the card on the left is the Collection for "Test Course Two". You can tell it's a collection by:

• The green title bar, which contains the name of the course this Collection is for.
• The word "Collection" at the top of the card body.
• The icon, which is supposed to look like a collection of photographs (we definitly need a better one).

When you're visiting a Studio Wall, the current collection is your Collection for the Studio Wall's Course. So, if the Studio Wall's course is "Test Course", then the current collection is your collection for Test Course.

Adding and removing items from a collection

Using the keyboard

To add an item to the current collection, position the mouse over the item and press "b".

When you hit the key, a message will briefly appear confirming the item has been added to the current collection.

The image below shows how the item's view changes before and after the item is added to the current collection. On the left the collection indicator is an outline (), which turns solid () after the item is added to the collection.

Important: When an item is added to a collection, it's added at it's position on the Studio Wall since Atget Studio can't "guess" where it should go in the collection. This means when you visit the Collection items may overlap or be in strange positions.

To remove an item from the current collection, just hit 'b' again. A message will briefly appear confirming the item has been removed from the current collection.

Undo

You can also "un-do" adding or removing an item from the current collection by hitting command-Z (Undo).

Updating the Collection

To update a Collection, click on the "Update" button on it's card:

The Collection update screen looks much like a Studio Wall update:

Remember, the items you see in a collection are references to the actual items. So, the only things you can change in the collection are:

• The item's position in the collection - you can drag them around in the collection but that doesn't impact the position of the actual items.
• The item's "gridded" status.
• The item's label, rating, and flag.

As noted above, when you add an item to the collection, it's added in it's position on the origional Studio Wall. You'll probably need to move items around in the collection to tidy it up, or just click the icon to re-grid the collection.

Note that you can also remove an item from the collection by hitting the 'b' key. If you accidently remove an item from the collection, you can restore or "un-do" it by hitting command-Z, which will add the item back into the collection.