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→Registering a Folio As TNG Media
Please consult your TNG documentation for instructions on creating a TNG media collection.
Please consult your TNG documentation for instructions on creating a TNG media collection.
Organizing this way appeals to the tidy mind, but makes it very tedious to enter new media into the TNG system. Personal Photos, census returns, marriage records, death certificates, are all entered into separate collections with their own structures.
Folios can greatly simplify this aspect of adding new media. For example, you can create a collection and call it, for example, "Exhibits".
Under Exhibits you can create folios associated with persons, using their personID as folio names, then register the folios as TNG media and associate them with the appropriate person.
Thereafter, place all new media in the person's folio, available for inspection by site visitors. You can maintain a tab map for custom labels such as '1950 Census'.
There is a way you can link a media document that exists in one folio, into another folio's pages. For example, a headstone with both husband and wife's name can be physically placed in both folios, or can be placed in one folio and simply linked as a page in the other.
If you need to register a document contained in the folio and associate it with an event such as 'Birth', go ahead and do it using the "Exhibits" collection and folio name/doc.jpg as the medium. For example, 'exhibits/p004352/bc4352.jpg. Note that I've prefixed and padded the PID so that it will alpha-sort properly. I us prefix bc for birth certificates and the file is forever linked with personID 4352. This is a strictly personal choice. There are many other ways to do things.
==Folio Screenshot==
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