"Favorites" is a FLAT listing of all content items and folders that the user has flagged as their favorites - and provides a convenient mechanism for users to quickly find and open the most used content from the User Hub as well as many other locations through the application where content is accessed.
Accessing Favorites
The Favorites view is accessible from the home page and is denoted by a "star" icon (yellow highlight below).
To open an item from the Favorites list, click its thumbnail in this view. Alternatively, right-click or open the item's context menu, and select View to open the content item or folder.
Tip: Alternatively, you can also access the Favorites view from the User Hub, using the Favorites widget, and from the Welcome widget.
Adding and Removing Favorites
Any item, including folders, from any content view can be flagged or later unflagged as a favorite from the context menu (as shown below).
Favorites View
Navigation Bar
Item Display
The Item Display (purple highlight above):
- Details View: The detail list shows a grid-like display of content items with various details.
- Content View: This is similar to the detail list but shows small thumbnails of the items.
- Tiles View: This shows all the content items as large tiles with thumbnails.
Content Type Filter
There is also a Content Type Filter (green arrow below) that filters the items in the current view by type. For example, you can select the Discovery checkbox only to show those discoveries that are visible in the view.
Main Body
The item listing is visible in every content view. It shows a list of items that match the selections, search, filters, and so on. It contains files of all of the content types available to the Viewer user (items created in Discover, Present, and Publish).
Context Menu
When you right-click your content items or folders, a context menu opens with the following functions:
- View: Content items. Open the content item for viewing and interaction.
- Open Folder: Folders only. Open the folder. This is equivalent to clicking the thumbnail.
- Go to Item Location: Go to the item's location in the Content Explorer.
- Add to Favorites: Add the item or folder to your favorites list.
- Remove from Favorites: Remove the item or folder from your favorites list.
- Rate Item: Apply a rating out of five.
Note: There will be additional options on the context menu if your content item or folder is saved to the My Content location. This is the case, even if you are in one of the other views. See below for more information.
"My Content" Context Menu
The following context menu actions are only relevant to content items or folders that are saved to your My Content directory.
Copy, Cut, and Paste
- Copy: Copies the item into memory, awaiting the next Paste. When it is pasted, it will be copied to the new destination.
- Cut: Cuts the item from the page, copying it into memory, awaiting the Paste. When a cut item is pasted, it will be copied to the new destination and deleted from the current location.
- Paste: Paste the items that you currently have on your clipboard into a new location. You can either perform a simple paste, pasting the copied or cut item into the new location, or a Deep Paste, pasting your selected item and the entire tree of items beneath your selected item. For more information, see Deep Paste.
Delete and Rename
- Rename: Rename the current item.
- Delete: Delete the current item from the content system.
Move (Drag and Drop)
You can simply drag and drop content items into another folder in the view. The functionality is, basically, cut and paste and, as such, is limited to content items that are saved to your My Content directory.