Categories

[cthomas]

My Universal Catalog is the start of my category tree. So how can I create some  categories like these?

[Jingo]

Hi Carl - check out the extensive help system for Categories here: https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#cat_basics.htm

[Mario]

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...

[cthomas]

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.

[Mario]

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

[cthomas]

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

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

[JohnZeman]

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.

[Mario]

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.