Term

Definition

Browse View

Displays information about lists of objects, rooms, or other items.

CHI

An acronym for Collectify Home Inventory.

Details View

Displays detailed information about objects, rooms, or other items.

Dialog

A small window that pops up in front of the main CHI window. A dialog helps you complete a specific task, such as choosing a file to open or changing CHI's options.

Double-click

Press and release a mouse button twice very quickly.

Drag and drop

A quick and easy method for importing/managing images and files. Select the image or file with your mouse and while holding down the left button on the mouse, drag the image or file into CHI and release it.

Field

A rectangular box in a window, usually white, in which you can record information, either by typing it in or by making a choice from a drop-down list.

Icon

A small graphic that represents an object, room, item or other element of CHI. Icons help you identify the item or other element at a glance.

Info Bar

The gray area located near the top of the inventory window which displays the module name, thumbnail size slider, and the list and thumbnail mode buttons.

Inventory

Refers to all the information related to the physical objects you own and use CHI to store and organize. An inventory is stored on your hard disk in a database file.

Inventory Explorer

Enables you to navigate throughout your inventory using an intuitive tree of modules, just like Windows Explorer. The Inventory Explorer is located along the left side of the inventory  window.

Media

Refers to text, image, video, and sound files that can be imported into CHI.

Menu Bar

An area near the top of the window with pull-down menus containing CHI tools and commands.

Module

Refers to an assortment of information within an inventory that is similar in nature. For example, all the information related to insurance claims (details, incident, objects) is contained in the Insurance Claims module. CHI organizes information into seven modules: Emergency Info, House Info, Rooms, Objects, Insurance Policies, Insurance Claims, and Beneficiaries.

Object

An object is an assortment of information related to a specific physical article that you own.

Status Bar

The gray area at the bottom of a window. In CHI, the status bar details file information in the Collectify Image Viewer.

Thumbnail

A small copy of an image. CHI uses thumbnails to enable you to view many images in a single window.

Toolbar

A row of buttons near the top of the inventory window, just below the menu bar. The buttons on the toolbar provide quick access to commonly-used tools and commands.

Window

A rectangular area of the screen in which a program, such as CHI, is displayed. A window usually has a title bar at the top and a status bar at the bottom.

Windows Explorer

An application within the Microsoft Windows operating system which provides a graphical user interface for accessing file systems. A simple way to open it is from Start, My Documents.