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Help on Collection Lists
Hyper-G supports structured hypermedia: documents can be
grouped together into collections, which may themselves
belong to other collections.
Icons appearing in a collection list:
Collection (open)
Collection (closed)
Cluster
Text, http link
Postscript, compressed Postscript
Image
Audio
Film
3D Scene
Generic Object
ftp link
Telnet Session
Gopher index
The collection list displays members of the current level of Hyper-G
collection, together with some optional additional attribute
information. Note that the number of members displayed can differ from
the number of objects actually in the collection, depending on
your user identification mode (see
Help on Identification).
You can change the amount of attribute information (author, date,
size, etc.) displayed for each member by modifying the display setting in
the Options menu:
The default is to display no attributes.
Possible attributes are:
- for collections:
- number of subdocuments, author;
- for clusters:
- number of subdocuments, modification date (if present, otherwise
creation date), author;
- for all other documents:
- size, modification date (if present,
otherwise creation date), author (not for remote documents).
You can also toggle the display of the 'Collection Head'. When on, the
collection head document (typically a description of the collection)
is displayed before the actual collection list. When off, the
collection head document appears in the collection list like any other
document.
The ![[info]](Iinfo.gif> link provides you with all
attribute information for the corresponding member of the collection.
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Note that the default display setting for collection lists can vary
from installation to installation, because the default setting can be
specified when installing the gateway.
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