User Guide

Key Concepts and Terms
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Key Concepts and Terms
The basic elements of how ImageAXS works are defined
briefly below. Becoming familiar with these terms will help
you learn the program more quickly.
Source Files
A source file is any file on your computer (or a separate disk
or storage device) that is catalogued in ImageAXS.
The file is referred to as a source file because it is the source
for the data record created by ImageAXS.
Acquiring
Acquiring is the act of making an ImageAXS data record for
a source file. To use ImageAXS to manage the files in a
particular folder, for example, you would acquire all of the
files in that folder (see Chapter 6, “Adding Your Files to a
Collection”).
Collections
Collections are the documents created by ImageAXS. A
collection contains a data record for each source file that
you acquire (as well as blank records, if you create any).
With ImageAXS, you can create and maintain as many
different collections as you want. With ImageAXS
Professional, you can also open more than one collection at
a time.
Note Although the records in ImageAXS collections describe
your source files, they do not contain the files themselves.
You can move or delete the collection without affecting the
source files, and vice versa.