'Collections' on Source help you to organise and manage your favourite products, manufacturers, CPD, literature, and inspiration case studies in any way you wish.
Collections can be linked to Lattira Spec and NBS Chorus projects or master folders and shared with team members.
Personal collections and collections linked to the project or master will appear in the 'Products' panel.
Related: Organise Your Specifying Experience with Collections, Source support area.
Creating and linking 'Collections'
Source is used to create 'Collections' and add products, manufacturers and so on. Source is also used to link a 'Collection' to a specification project or master folder and to share the collection with 'Team members'.
'Collections' in the Project 'Edit details'
'Collections' linked to a project or master folder will appear in the 'Linked collections' area of the 'Edit details'.
A screenshot of a linked collection in the project 'Edit project' panel.
'Edit details'
- Only shows collections linked to the project or master you have open.
- Shows the 'shared' status of a collection.
A screenshot of the tooltip showing the shared status of the collection.
Collections in the specification 'Products' panel
The 'Products' panel will show all 'Collections' that contain one or more products for the article or clause you are editing. These can be either:
- Personal collections.
- Collections are linked to the project or master folder you have opened.
Collections will be hidden if they do not contain any products for the article or clause you are editing. For further information, please refer to the 'Show empty collections' section below.
Collections and Source 'Locale'
Source contains product information for various parts of the world. It allows you to control the content you see by selecting a 'Locale'.
The 'Products' panel will display 'Collections' from different locales based on the content set.
- Australian and UK content sets will return collections from the UK locale.
- Canadian content sets will return collections from the Canada locale.
A screenshot of collections in the specification 'Products' panel.
'Show empty collections'
Collections will be hidden if they do not contain any products for the article or clause you are editing.
The 'Show empty collections' toggle will show all personal collections and collections linked to this project or master.
A screenshot of the 'Show empty collections' toggle.
Empty collections show no relevant products
If a collection is empty, you can open it in Source by clicking the 'View this collection on Source'. You can then use Source to add one or more relevant products to your collection.
A screenshot of the 'View this collection on Source' for an empty collection.
When you return to your specification browser tab, save any changes you have made to the clause you are editing, then refresh your browser page (pressing the F5 key on the keyboard refreshes the browser page in most browsers), your collection will now show the relevant product(s).
The 'Products' panel shows the products that have been classified against the article or clause you are editing. This means the supplier has indicated that the product is suitable for the article or clause you are working on. If the collection is empty in the 'Products' panel, it means the collection does not contain any products which have been classified for the article or clause you are editing.