How do I view the image content of a collection?

You can view the contents of a collection by searching for images in the collection. If your search is without any search criteria, it enables you to view the entire collection. This is helpful for managing the entire collection.

How

1. Collection tab: After you have opened a collection for administration from the 'Your collections' tab, the collection's administration tab is displayed in the application ribbon. Click the collection administration tab to display the collection's administration tab whenever you have switched to another context (e.g. search or another collection).
2. Search mode: The search mode defines how the words and phrases in the search text field are used in a search.

   • Text (words and/or phrases) entered in the search text field is matched against the caption of an image.
   • Matching ignores case sensitivity and extra white space characters in the caption.
   • Each word/phrase is matched against text anywhere in the caption.

   So:

   • To search for a phrase, enclose it in double inverted commas (double quotation marks).
   • If the matching option selected is ‘Any word’, then the search returns images where the caption contains ANY of the words/phrases in the search text field, regardless of order. So, the more words/phrases you enter, the more images you will find.
   • If the matching option selected is ‘All words’, then the search returns images where the caption contains ALL of the words/phrases in the search text field, regardless of order. So, the more words/phrases you enter, the fewer images you will find.

   Examples:

   • ANY – "Heart surgery" cardiac coronary = "Heart surgery" OR "cardiac" OR "coronary"
   • ALL – "Heart surgery" cardiac coronary = "Heart surgery" AND "cardiac" AND "coronary"

   The blue text can appear in any order in the caption.

3. Search text: The search text box is displayed above the search results. You can enter any text into this box. The text you enter is matched against the name, description, and keywords properties of an image. The matching process ignores case sensitivity and extra white space characters in those fields. Each word in your search text is matched independently against the image properties. If you want to search for an exact phrase, you need to enclose the phrase in double inverted commas (double quotation marks). For example, "brain surgery". The search mode determines how multiple words/phrases are used to match the captions (see step 2 'Search mode' above).
4. Search button: To initiate the search, click the magnifying glass at the end of the search text box. Any matching images are displayed in the Search results grid. To show all the images in a collection, click the magnifying glass without entering anything in the search text box.
5. Search results pages: You can move through the search results pages by using the relative page navigation buttons or by clicking on a specific page number. The page buttons are NOT displayed if there are 25 or fewer matching images (i.e. 1 page).

   	Move to first page. Disabled on first page.
   	Move to previous page. Disabled on first page.
   	Move to a specific page.
   	Move to next page. Disabled on last page.
   	Move to last page. Disabled on last page.

6. Search results grid: The search results grid shows 25 matching image thumbnails per page. See Why are some images not shown in the search results?