A Kind of Cataloger?

Someone asked about a free CD/DVD catalog application. It occurred to me that if you mounted a disk--say it's named "MP3s"--you could use this Terminal command to create a text file with the contents:
find /Volumes/MP3s/ -name "*" >MP3s.txt
You could create a folder, say MyDisks, and put all such text files in that folder. Then when you wanted to know which disk a file was on you could do a Find on that folder and it would return the name of the text file, which is the same as the name of the disk. I then got to wondering if one could create an Applescript that, when you select a mounted CD/DVD would fill in the name of the disk, use that as the name of the text file, and run the Terminal command. Unfortunately my scripting skills don't go much beyond modifying other people's scripts that do something similar to I want so they do exactly what I want.
I thought an Autmator action might work, but I'm not all that handy with it either, and I couldn't even figure out how to start an Automator action to select a mounted disk.
So I'm stumped. Any one got any ideas? I even wondered if you could make an Applescript that you could attach as a Folder Action to the MyDisks folder, so you could just drop the disk onto the folder and instead of copying it, it would run the catalog action. Hmm. Maybe not....
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Hi Niel, I had already gathered that you are not only an Applescripter, but one who can whomp up a script someone needs in nothing flat. You just proved to me that's true "fer shure!" Thanks muchly. The first two scripts worked perfectly, without a hitch, and very speedily as well. I put the first one in the Script menu, so it is actually very easy to access it and select the CD (I just made 10 CDs of random MP3s to play in my truck and thought it would be nice to have a record of what's on them anyway, so they give me something to check the scripts with). I put the droplet in my Droplets folder, and that seemed to run just as fast--of course these are simple CDs, just the MP3s with no sub-folders or other files. Unfortunately I couldn't get the Folder Action one to work. When I try to drop the disk on the folder the system just creates an alias. Tried from column view and from the disk on the Desktop, but as soon as the disk is dragged to the folder the cursor changes to the curvy alias sign, and an alias is what appears in the folder.
I had never noticed the Run Script option in System Prefs before. So, since these are MP3 CDs, I selected the Music CD option and told it to run the catalog script instead of opening iTunes, and it worked. Too bad there isn't an option there for what to do with a plain data CD/DVD. Ah well.
Thanks again to you both.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

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How to create a product catalog in crm(by the end user of the system)?

how can we an end user create a product catalog?
what is the diff b/n prod cat and prod?
we download the prod from r/3.
how we get the prod cat done in crm for the customers and consumers and how it is done?
thank you,

hi
first of all we need to look at what is catalog management before proceding with product and product catalog.
You use this business scenario to create a centralized product catalog that contains product descriptions, multimedia objects, pricing, and associated literature. The catalog enables quick and easy customer access to timely and personalized product information, structured in such a way that most meets your customers needs.
Product catalogs are implemented in sales processes and are of particular importance in CRM Web Channel for presenting your products in the Web shop.
difference between the product and product catalog
this is not the thing that product and product catalog are completely different entity.
Product catalog :   A grouping together of products from your product master data, in a structured hierarchy.
You use product catalogs to group together products to present them in the Web shop, Interaction Center, or in other forms of media, for example printed format or CD-ROM.
You can create various catalogs for your products in the product master and use them according to a validity date. For example, you could use certain products for the summer season, and other products for the winter season.
You can also tailor your product catalog to meet other needs by creating catalog variants. For example, you can create a catalog in English with the prices displayed in US Dollars.
so by above definition it is very much clear that products are actually assign to the catalog,i will give you an analogy that museum is a kind of catalog and you add different pictures to the museum,in the same way you add product to the product catalog according to the acatlog variant.
Now how you assign product to product catalog
Product Assignment
You assign products manually or automatically to a catalog area, depending on the catalog type. The product ID, product description, and status of all products is displayed, as is the information as to whether the item contains accessories or if it is a configurable product.
Prerequisites
You have created products in your product master in SAP CRM under Accounts and Products
Process
You select a catalog area in your product catalog, and edit the item list by assigning products to the area.
Manual Assignment
You can assign products manually on an individual basis or by copying a catalog area. You tend to choose manual product assignment for marketing-oriented catalogs that are subjected to editorial controls.
      Individual assignment
      In this case you select the catalog area in which the product should be assigned, manually search for the product in the product master, and assign it to the area.
      Copying items from catalog areas
      You select an area or subarea from another catalog and copy it to your new catalog. The system copies all products from the copied area to the new catalog, as long as they belong to the distribution chain assigned to the target catalog variant. From these products, you can then manually determine which products from the copied area you want to keep and which items you wish to delete.
The following is true for manually assigned products:
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      You can edit the list of accessories for manually assigned products. The system determines which accessories are maintained for the product in the product master and displays them in the item area of the catalog. You select which accessories should be displayed for the product in the catalog and activate them.
      Manually assigned products can be included or removed from catalog views on an individual basis.
Automatic Assignment
You can assign products automatically to a catalog by transferring product hierarchies from your product master to the catalog areas. The categories, items, attributes, and documents contained in the product hierarchy are copied to the new catalog.
You use automatic product assignment mainly for functional catalogs, where products can be copied with very few changes, from the product categories of the product master. It enables a standardized characterization of your products in the catalog.
The following is true for products assigned to the catalog using product hierarchy transfer:
      Product categories which make up the hierarchies become catalog areas in the catalog.
      Product categories in the product hierarchy must be assigned to the distribution chain to which the target catalog variant is assigned. Otherwise the category is not transferred. The same applies to the items, texts, and documents assigned to the category.
      Items are always active and cannot be individually activated or deactivated.
      Accessories maintained for transferred product in the product master are automatically included and displayed in the catalog.
      Transferred items cannot be individually included in catalog views or removed from them. Instead all items of the hierarchy are always contained in the view.
      Lists of characteristics for transferred categories and items can be automatically created when transferring product hierarchies. The transferred values are included in the item overview of the product catalog.
how to create a product catalog
just have a look at this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/1c/12b2dc57d644d19ea3a5c4156f904f/frameset.htm
your query regarding the products you have uploaded from the R3,now as above i said how you maintain and create the product catalog ,you just assign the products uploaded from the R3 to the product cataloag created in CRM.
more detail info you can see in these links
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/91/be9642e5ef0731e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/27f09d25da5a68e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/037716cfc604a9e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
if you read carefuly what i have said,it is pretty easy to implement ,you will see it yourself
guess it will help you
do revert back in case of any doubt
best regards
ashish

New catalog?

I am new to Iphone and just noticed how Apple has a catalog for web apps on here. I was wondering if when in Feb they release that development pack that they will then add a new kind of catalog to list applications that can be installed on the Iphone. I was not sure I should go with the Iphone and if it stayed the way it is it would be a mistake however since I know they are going to open it to 3rd parties comes Feb I have really high hopes of a new world. I think this is going to help the Iphone by miles. Still trying to figure out how to do a copy and paste on this thing but I guess from what I am reading that is not an option right now. I just can't wait to get past Feb and see waht all comes out

Nobody is sure how 3rd party apps will be made available and loaded. Right now most thoughts are that developers will provide the code to Apple and Apple will make it available via iTunes (sort of like how iPod games are).

In Store Only Products

I would like to create a Catalog that contains items that can only be purchased at the physical store not online. I have considered not putting a price on the items but that still allows the user to add the item to the cart.
Is there a way to create this kind of catalog? I have considered using some JS to hide/disable to add to cart functionality and then add an In Store Only image.
Is there a better way?

Please do Lynda
It means display the prices and add to cart button for customers who are
logged in to secure zone. So you can use that option if the site isn't
using the secure zones.
If it is, then another option is to add something like
class="offine-product" to one of the custom fields, then use it in the
product layout like this:
<div > content of your layout </div> and then use some simple
CSS to hide the price and add to cart button e.g.
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Cheers,
mario

Creation of product in standalone system 5.0

Hi guys,
Can anyone tell me steps involved in creation of products in crm 5.0.I have done all the settings an when i go to maintain products iam not able to get the data for the category id which i created for the base hierarchy....
Can any one send me some config document
thanks
ajay

hi
first of all we need to look at what is catalog management before proceding with product and product catalog.
You use this business scenario to create a centralized product catalog that contains product descriptions, multimedia objects, pricing, and associated literature. The catalog enables quick and easy customer access to timely and personalized product information, structured in such a way that most meets your customers needs.
Product catalogs are implemented in sales processes and are of particular importance in CRM Web Channel for presenting your products in the Web shop.
difference between the product and product catalogthis is not the thing that product and product catalog are completely different entity.
Product catalog : A grouping together of products from your product master data, in a structured hierarchy.
You use product catalogs to group together products to present them in the Web shop, Interaction Center, or in other forms of media, for example printed format or CD-ROM.
You can create various catalogs for your products in the product master and use them according to a validity date. For example, you could use certain products for the summer season, and other products for the winter season.
You can also tailor your product catalog to meet other needs by creating catalog variants. For example, you can create a catalog in English with the prices displayed in US Dollars.
so by above definition it is very much clear that products are actually assign to the catalog,i will give you an analogy that museum is a kind of catalog and you add different pictures to the museum,in the same way you add product to the product catalog according to the acatlog variant.
Now how you assign product to product catalog
Product Assignment
You assign products manually or automatically to a catalog area, depending on the catalog type. The product ID, product description, and status of all products is displayed, as is the information as to whether the item contains accessories or if it is a configurable product.
Prerequisites
You have created products in your product master in SAP CRM under Accounts and Products
Process
You select a catalog area in your product catalog, and edit the item list by assigning products to the area.
Manual Assignment
You can assign products manually on an individual basis or by copying a catalog area. You tend to choose manual product assignment for marketing-oriented catalogs that are subjected to editorial controls.
Individual assignment
In this case you select the catalog area in which the product should be assigned, manually search for the product in the product master, and assign it to the area.
Copying items from catalog areas
You select an area or subarea from another catalog and copy it to your new catalog. The system copies all products from the copied area to the new catalog, as long as they belong to the distribution chain assigned to the target catalog variant. From these products, you can then manually determine which products from the copied area you want to keep and which items you wish to delete.
The following is true for manually assigned products:
You can activate or deactivate items on an individual basis.
You can edit the list of accessories for manually assigned products. The system determines which accessories are maintained for the product in the product master and displays them in the item area of the catalog. You select which accessories should be displayed for the product in the catalog and activate them.
Manually assigned products can be included or removed from catalog views on an individual basis.
Automatic Assignment
You can assign products automatically to a catalog by transferring product hierarchies from your product master to the catalog areas. The categories, items, attributes, and documents contained in the product hierarchy are copied to the new catalog.
You use automatic product assignment mainly for functional catalogs, where products can be copied with very few changes, from the product categories of the product master. It enables a standardized characterization of your products in the catalog.
The following is true for products assigned to the catalog using product hierarchy transfer:
Product categories which make up the hierarchies become catalog areas in the catalog.
Product categories in the product hierarchy must be assigned to the distribution chain to which the target catalog variant is assigned. Otherwise the category is not transferred. The same applies to the items, texts, and documents assigned to the category.
Items are always active and cannot be individually activated or deactivated.
Accessories maintained for transferred product in the product master are automatically included and displayed in the catalog.
Transferred items cannot be individually included in catalog views or removed from them. Instead all items of the hierarchy are always contained in the view.
Lists of characteristics for transferred categories and items can be automatically created when transferring product hierarchies. The transferred values are included in the item overview of the product catalog.
how to create a product catalog
just have a look at this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/1c/12b2dc57d644d19ea3a5c4156f904f/frameset.htm
your query regarding the products you have uploaded from the R3,now as above i said how you maintain and create the product catalog ,you just assign the products uploaded from the R3 to the product cataloag created in CRM.
more detail info you can see in these links
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/91/be9642e5ef0731e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/27f09d25da5a68e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/037716cfc604a9e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
if you read carefuly what i have said,it is pretty easy to implement ,you will see it yourself
always remember that you need to maintain the catalog,products can be transaported but not catalog
best regards
ashish

Crop as a saved preset?

Hi,
I am trying to find my way, of how to submit my photos to the external lab for printing. Print module is kind of useless for me - the page setup is printer driver dependant and none of my installed printer drivers allows me to define borderless print and so LR does not allow me to set margins to zero. I think, that such desing limitation is pretty strange, especially if you just want to print to the jpeg file.
So - then I moved on to the crop tool. What a bunch of inconsistencies and design limits:
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- LR mysteriosly remember your last 5 settings. If you do a mistake, you need to reenter all of them again
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So I thought, that I might make a preset. I noticed, that when you copy setting from an image, there is a crop section. But - exactly the same dialog, which allows us to save settings, does miss a crop section. What a bummer! I found xy requests, where ppl were asking for the functionality few years ago. I am very negatively surprised, that it was yet not granted for implementation, especially as some of crop tool facilities are pretty arcane at best.
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petr.krenzelok wrote:
I simply wanted to get precise pixel image
Yes, Lr rounds too much - the same problem exists with export presets, i.e. export dimensions rounded to the point that there are full pixel sizing errors - intermittent.
If you really need exact cropping you may be interested in:
XmpCrop
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Note: not compatible with auto-write xmp preference.
If, when exporting, the dimensions are off (short) by 1, then you also need to use
Exportant ('Prevent Short Dimensions' feature)
or edit export preset with text editor and add enough fractional offset that rounding error goes away.
Rob

Transparency in Tree component and actions in its sheets

Hello people
I'm doing a kind of catalog, and I'm using a component "tree" for listing.
But here's the problem: I need to use the background I have in the scene, and the component has a white background I need to remove. The workaround I've found is to give 0 _alpha property to the instance of the tree I have in the scene, but it also hides its icons, and I need those visible.
The other thing is that I need that when you run over a leaf, multimedia displays a small view of an image, and when you click-go to a specific frame where I have the large image with description.
If anyone knows how can help me I would be greatly appreciated.
I searched the online help that Adobe is now, and I found these properties of the tree but there is no way to work (at least I need):
themeColor
backgroundColor
backgroundDisabledColor
depthColors
borderStyle
color
disabledColor
embedFonts
Thanks in advance.
P.S: Sorry my bad english

Use xml. Resistance is futile.
Tracy

Just wondering....and needing help

Hi,
just wondering, I started creating a new iWebsite from scratch, and now following things I wonder:
1. On my .Mac account, my page doesnt appear anymore as page
2. The Hit counter on my .Mac page is gone
3. The site is published directly now in the "Web" folder on my iDisk not anymore in the "iWeb" Folder
4. When trying to sync my iDisk, it doesn't sync the pages created and stored in the "Web" folder
I know, many questions, but help is really appreciated.
Thanks,
SolSat

3. The site is published directly now in the "Web" folder on my iDisk not anymore in the "iWeb" Folder
Are you sure about that? It should be in Web/Sites. iWeb 1 published in Web/Sites/iWeb.
Personally I think trying to sync iWeb between your real iDisk and a local copy just causes problems. I recommend people turn off syncing, trash the local copy, and work directly with .Mac.
Also I don't think the .Mac home page is reliable as any kind of catalog of your sites/pages and don't know of any way to fix its shortcomings.

Trouble with two hard drives including SMART failure

About a week ago my mac mini g4 that I've had for less than 3 years, crashed while I was using itunes and playing music off an external usb drive.
As a result there has been trouble with both drives:
*Internal hard drive failure:*
The internal drive would not boot and reported a fatal hardware error, with a SMART failure. Interestingly, when I start up the computer as a firewire target and run the same Disk Utility program, it does not report the fatal error. I was able to reformat this drive and it seems to now be booting and running fine.
*External hard drive failure*
The external hard drive worked intermittently and then died completely a few days later, where it is now unable to mount it at all.
Does this mean I have two failed hard drives? The internal one seems to work fine and has for over a week, even though it still says there was a S.M.A.R.T. failure. When Disk Utility says there was a hardware failure, it prevents me from running the verify/repair functions. Is it possible that the external drive failure was somehow attributed to the internal drive?
I think it is also strange that when I run the Disk Utility using firewire target, the internal hard drive tests fine.
The message I get is:
"This drive reported a fatal hardware error to disk utility. If the drive has not failed completely, back up as much data as you can and then replace it with a working drive."
and at the bottom it says:
"S.M.A.R.T. status: failing"
Meanwhile it works just fine and my other external drive has failed altogether.
I normally wouldn't question this error message, but the fact that the other drive failed more completely at around the same time, and that the error message doesn't show up when I run the disk utility on the internal drive via firewire makes me wonder if there are other factors. It's also just frustrating that I may need to replace both.
Other things I have done is run the Apple Hardware Test, and everything passed. I also tried a PMU reset, and that didn't help.
Should I just replace the internal hard drive or should I look for other problems?
I appreciate any advice on this.
Message was edited by: biz123

I'm not aware of any firmware update for the PPC minis - I've not had any with either of my own that I recall.
Of course future reliability is something you can never really check or fully assess, but the fact the system passes the hardware test tells us that the components which could have been responsible and which are not fairly easy to replace (the logic board, disk controller, PMU are all healthy. RAM could be a problem because the hardware test is not all that capable at revealing RAM issues, but it is also not likely to be the cause of this kind of problem. The PSU is obviously suspect to some degree, but is also replaceable.
While it's not common to suffer multiple drive failures, the fact one was active and the other could easily have been paging would account for the result if either failed in that situation. Bad luck and not easy to reproduce if you tried, but not inconceivable.
The fact that the internal rendered up your files while in FW target disk mode tends to indicate that the reason it wouldn't boot from that drive was not that the drive itself was trashed, but that the drive crashed during use - a circumstance which often creates catalog and file problems, and can certainly cause the system to fail in locating the MacOS install to boot from. In that situation, unless there is physical damage to the drive, it typically can be re-used with a reformat and reinstall, since of course that corrects the kind of catalog/file issues that this sort of crash typically causes. It would be expected to report 'verified' for SMART status though.
There are a few reasons why a damaged external might not appear in Disk Utility, or refuse to mount, some of which are broad;ly similar - a crash causing file or catalog issues. The fact it was FAT32 would complicate the matter to a small degree since if the allocation tables weren't visible to the Mac due to corruption, the system wouldn't have any way to mount the drive. That said, while it would likely be visible to a PC, and may even render up files in data recovery, it wouldn't be reusable itself without a reformat, and could well produce I/O errors in the process. It would usually be amenable to reformatting though it might also need repartitioning depending on the damage done. The overheating you mention may be an indicator of a fault, or it may be that the drive is being pushed to all 3 read attempts with each data block - that would cause it to work very hard! If you have rescue the data you think you can get off it, I'd suggest you try a reformat. If that fails, use a utility such as FDISK to delete all the partitions and recreate them, then try formatting again.
In terms of iTunes, any version will work, including 7.6. If music is stored on the external and that is USB connected, that would count for some speed impediment since iTunes is fairly cpu intensive, and the USB bus is also highly variable in performance, depending on CPU activity. But no, there is nothing in the latest version of iTunes that would cause a PPC to suffer such performance problems in itself, so you can use that quite safely. All are very cautious about this aspect of software design, since updates are often released to deal with stability or security issues, and must be usable for everyone.

Some kind of UDML on the catalog

Hi,
we have changed the names of our subject areas. This impacts the existing reports based on these SA (message that you don't have access to the SA (previous name) or that the SA no longer exists).
To resolve this, we have to change the XML of the report where we have to change the old name of the subjectArea with the new one.
Is there some kind of UDML available to do this on all existing reports or some other technique to do this in bulk?
Txs for your input.
Kr,
A
Edited by: ADB on 30-okt-2009 7:07

Is there some kind of UDML available to do this on all existing reports or some other technique to do this in bulk?Sorry, but honestly RTFM...[http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/b31765.pdf]. Chapter 7, page 127
Catalog Manager -> Open Catalog -> Tools ->XML Search and Replace
Cheers,
C.

What kind of uncertainties are presented in catalogs of modules NI9201,9211,9203,9265 and DAQ9172

I have to calculate the total uncertainty for a compressor test-rig, so i am measuring static pressures, total temperatures, mass flow. I am using the following modules for each of the variables mentioned:
Pressure: NI 9203 (transducers) and Ni 9265 (pressure reducer)
Temperature: Ni 9211
Mass flow: NI 9203
So I have to incorporate in the total uncertainty the acquisition system uncertainty.
In the catalogs for each of the modules i found the following values
Ni 9203: Gain error +/-0.04% offset error +/-0.02
Ni 9265:Gain error +/-0.05% offset error +/-0.02
Ni9211: Gain error +/-0.05% offset error +/-15 uV
My question is about how to incorporate all this errors in the proagation of uncertainty calculation:
U(95)=((b1*theta1)^2+(b2*theta2)^2+....)^(1/2)
b1 are the errors due to each of the variables
theta is the derivative of the function for each one of the variables
According to this paper from asme http://www.barringer1.com/drbob-bio_files/ASME83.pdf which is based on th ASME PTC 19.1, which I haven't been able to get it.
The uncertainty is divided in two components bias and random errors, then each one has to be computed and in the end add all this together.
U(95)=(B^2+P^2)^(1/2)
So what i am doing is to get all the bias components from the sensors and also from the module of each sensor and adding them
Btotal=(B1^2+B2^2+....)^(1/2)
Where B1 and B2 are the bias components of the error in sensor , module and so on.
Ptotal=(P1^2+P2^2+....)^(1/2)
Where P1 and P2 are the random components of the error in sensor , module and so on.
then I am applying the propagation equation taking into account each component
Ubias(95)=((b1*theta1)^2+(b2*theta2)^2+....)^(1/2)
where b1... are just bia component and in I do the same in the other case with the random component
and in the end I sum this quantities
U(95)=(Ubiastotal^2+Pbiastotal^2)^(1/2)
So my question is if the values that i took from the catalogs of each module correspond to the bias component of the error or is a combination of random and bias component?
The other question is related with NI911 this is used for the thermocouples and i was reading in one of the forums that for this module i take the bias error or systematic directly from the figures in the catalogs so for instance if i read 1,8 C for autozero off room temperature, that value corresponds to +/-1,8.
And the last question is if you can help me with a reference book about the equations required to transform from volts to calculate the gain and offset error that you have in the catalogs.
Sorry for the long explanation but i didn't know how to pose the questions in an easier way
Thanks for the help\
Esteban

How do U catalog/index items on DVD's/ CD's so that you can find files?

Please could anyone tell me how I might be able to do this
as my DVD's and CD's are stacking up in my wallets/folders and it's so hard to locate stuff other than by a vague sense of the year it might have been created.
I would like something (an application or device) whereby you plug it in to the laptop and then insert your disc into the slot on the same laptop and hey presto it forms an alphabetical catalog of the contents and indexes it by date and so on and so on.
Gradually this "magical device" would then build up a record of all of my discs ( mostly CD's though probably 10% are DVD's by now) which I would have to number individually in order to identify them.
I would then be able to search for files/jpgs (using my plug in device) using keywords and even date.
I have to point out that I am not a geek in the remotest sense but you can probably tell that by the simplicity of my language.
I just hope that I am not living completely in cloud cuckoo land !
and that some kind soul responds
yours in chaos
Aine
in Edinburgh

Thomas ---Thank you for responding.
I did a google search for the
G-4/Sawtooth etc that you mentioned but it was not enlightening in any way.
If anyone else or indeed you could be a little 'clearer' I would very much appreciate it.
thanks again
Aine

How are people using Catalogs?

I know I asked this question some time ago, but I'd like to ask it again since I will soon be upgrading from LR2.7 to LR3.
I would like some friendly advice from people how they use Lightroom Catalogs.
I currently use several catalogs. I have one strictly for day-to-day stuff where I might take shots of friends and family.
I use another catalog which I use strictly for Photography Workshops I go on.
Yet another one is one which I use strictly for the few professional photography jobs I have done. I am not a professional photographer, but I have been paid for a few photo jobs.
Still another is one which I use strictly for pictures from others. I get a lot of pictures from relatives who wish me to edit them. Notably, I get a lot from my mother, and many of those pictures are of family and friends, of her flower garden. So I do like to keep them myself, but I do so in a separate catalog.... in order to keep them separate from my own pictures. I get a lot of photos from a friend of mine whom I used to work with in Europe....and he is now sending me many pictures he has taken while working in Ghana. I like to keep some of these in a catalog but for now, I like that to be a separate catalog then the one I do most of my work in.
I would like to get some ideas from LR users how many catalogs they might use. Do they separate their photos into different catalogs like I do? Do they keep photos all in one big catalog? Or perhaps do they just use a small number of catalogs.
I do like the ability to keep separate problems, but the 2 main "problems" I have with doing this are as follows: 1)I some times I accidentally put pictures in the wrong catalog. I usually catch this soon and merely have to do the process again, putting the pictures in the right catalog. and 2)As far as I know, I do not think you can search by keyword (tag) across multiple calendar. This is not a big issue, but it would be nice to be able to search by keyword to get, for example, all of the pictures taken by me and my Mother of say, my niece.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks for your input.
Richard

I know Lightroom doesn't care about the directory/folder structure. But I care how that directory/folder structure looks in Lightroom. Again, it's kind of hard for me to explain this, but from what I've seen, LR mimics the structure you have on your hard drive. It works just fine, but I don't want it to mimic the folder structure I had before with LR 2.7.
I'll try to explain, but, again, it's kind of hard for me to put into words without one actually seeing what I'm talking about. My original folder structure on my hard drive was by year......2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, etc., each a primary folder.
Within each year, I had folders with the date(s) as well as a brief description of what was in that folder.....e.g., 122509_Christmas_at_Mom_and_Dads.
Within that same yearly folder (e.g. 2009), I also would have things like 042809_Kauai_Photo_Workshop as a subfolder.
With LR 2.7, I organized things by Catalog. So I had a Catalog for personal photos such as Christmas with my family; I had a separate photo for Photo Workshops I had yet another separate Catalog for pictures my Mom sends me to edit. And, I had a few other catalogs. It was just my way or organizing groups of photos.
My original post asked the question about how people use catalogs.....either single catalogs or multiple catalogs. Yes, there were many comments about using keywords. Based on the comments I had received, I did decide to combine all of my catalogs into one single catalog.
Within that new single catalog, however, I still want separate folders showing "personal pictures," "pictures from Mom," "workshop photos," "photos I did for a professional job," etc. That's just the way I like to organize things. As I found out, if I create separate folders in LR in a single catalog like this, it also creates a corresponding folder on my hard drive. Therefore, I have to move those pictures into that corresponding folder if I want to keep these separate folders in LR.
One reason I like organizing things this way is that my Mom often will take similar pictures to what I take. She'll take pictures of her grandkids that she wants me to "fix" by removing redeye, etc. Because I'm not so sure she backs things up to the extent I do, I also like keeping her pictures to be sure they are properly backed up like I do backups. When she takes pictures of the grandkids, I'm usually over visiting as well and take my own pictures. So I like to keep these sets of pictures separate. Yes, I know I could put keywords in there such as "Mom's Pictures" or "My Pictures," but I just like to keep these sets of pictures separate. That's the way I am. People like to organize things their own ways.
Having said all of that, I have been using keywords ever since I started using Lightroom, version 1. I spend a lot of time doing so. I do like them. But, I also like having the LR folder organized the way I do. Right now, I have a very long list of keywords. If I want to find a group of pictures, I'm not so sure I'd find all of the ones I'm looking for unless I select the specific keywords I am looking for, and with the list as long as it is now (and it's growing), I might miss something. With a single catalog, it does make it easier to search for all photos with a single key word, but the folders in LR help do help me narrow down what I might be looking for.
Lightroom provides these tools, and to me, I am taking advantage of them, including keywords, to help me organize my photos. Once I get my current LR photos into the new folder structure, any new additions will be very easily and quickly done.

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I have a client who wants to offer an ebook with an online exam form. I'll create a secure zone for the exam form.
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believe after 3 weeks I still do not have an activation code ADOBE say
they are having problems with their system
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