Pathagoras Tip of the Week

'Shelving' a Book:  As discussed in a previous tip, a Book is an element of the Library to which it belongs The Books in the current library are displayed when you click the Document Assembly button.

Books are not the folders themselves. Rather, they are pointers (shortcuts) to the folders to which they point.  Books save you a tremendous amount of time because, once set, you never again have to navigate to the folder to which the Book points.

To place a Book onto an empty shelf (that is, establish the pointer):

    (1) Click the Document Assembly button. The Libraries & Books screen will display.

    (2) Click on a blank shelf (that is, one one which no other Book resides).

    (3) Click the Quick Set button that appears at the right side of the screen.

    (4) Follow the on-screen directions that are provided and and navigate to the folder that contains the documents you want to connect to this Book. Select a single file from the book (is doesn't matter which one -- it's actually the folder that is being locked in here, not a particular document).

Take advantage of where you are!

    If the document that currently is 'on-screen' when you begin the shelving process is from the folder you want to point, you need only perform steps 1, 2 and 3 above. Pathagoras will assume that the document that is currently open in your editing screen represents the folder that you wish to assign as a book and will offer that folder as the 'first choice'  in the resulting screen.

    If Pathagoras assumed correctly, you won't have to navigate anywhere in order to place the book on the designated shelf.  So as you are shelving books, you may wish to consider first displaying a representative document from the folder. It may save some time.