Now that you have found certain assets, you may want to know more information about them, or view them in their full beauty instead of as tiny thumbnails. With Cumulus, both is easy to achieve.
Mysterious Things: Getting Information on Your Assets
Every Cumulus view presents a specific subset of the information stored in the records, and each view mode presents it in a specific way, depending on the settings of the Record View Sets.
To to get an overview of relevant information on an asset, use the Information window.
To open the Information window:
1. Select a record and click the Information window button () in the main toolbar.
The Information window appears.
2. You may want to arrange the Cumulus main window and the Information window side by side on your monitor. Thus you can benefit from the fact that the information displayed in the Information window can follow the selection in the main window.
3. Change the record selection in the main window. The Information window changes accordingly.
As you might expect, the Information window as seen on your monitor may differ from the screenshot above, depending on the chosen Record View Set and the settings of the catalog you use. You may change the Record View Set via the Record View Set list in the Information window toolbar.
The information displayed in the Information window may be segmented into groups divided by separators. Clicking a separator collapses or expands the respective group of information.
The Information window not only displays a vast variety of information, or metadata, on your assets – it also allows you to modify certain metadata values such as Notes, Keywords, or Rating. If you have the appropriate permissions, of course. You will learn how to do this later on, see “Do It Yourself: The Information Window”
) in the main toolbar.