LibraryLink Toolbar

The LibraryLink toolbar provides five functions, with a sixth in v4.0:

Control Name Description
Display button Display Use this to change how thumbnails and their metadata are displayed in the "LibraryLink Linked Files" and "ThumbsPlus Files" sections.
This drop-down button offers two options:
  • Details: Tiny thumbnails and their metadata are displayed in a table which can be sorted by clicking on the field headers.
  • Thumbnails: Large thumbnails are displayed (default). Metadata is only available from the “File Information” section and files are always sorted by filename.
ThumbsPlus button Start ThumbsPlus Use this to start the ThumbsPlus application.
Quick Upload button Quick Upload Use this to start the Quick Uploader
Slideshow button Slideshow Use this to start a slideshow for the linked images.

The drop-down button offers two options:

  • 1:1 slideshow: Starts a slideshow for the linked images using the original image sizes.
  • Fit to Screen slideshow: Starts a slideshow for the linked images resizing the images to fit the screen.

Use the Esc key to stop the slideshow.



Look for button

Search in button
Search method button

Find now button
Search Interface Use this to find files in your ThumbsPlus catalogue:
  1. Enter one or multiple search terms into the “Look for” box; enclose multiple terms in quotation marks to search for exact matches
  2. Define which fields should be searched using the “Search In” drop-down
  3. Configure the “Search Method”: ‘Match All’ will only return records containing all of the search terms, whilst ‘Match Any’ returns records that match at least one of the search terms.
  4. Click “Find Now” to start the search. The results will be displayed in the “ThumbsPlus Files” section and the matching files are temporarily linked into the “Search Results” folder of the “ThumbsPlus Catalogue” tree.

This information applies to version 4.0.23 and later.

Control Name Description
Ranking Use this to adjust the ranks of individual thumbnails to manually control the ordering of thumbnails.

 

Modified 10/05/2018
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