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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: OPTIONS

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] link provides you with all attribute information for the corresponding member of the collection.

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.