{"id":58,"date":"2007-10-23T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2007\/10\/23\/displaying-file-information-with-the-views-menu\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T17:25:18","slug":"displaying-file-information-with-the-views-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/displaying-file-information-with-the-views-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaying file information with the &#8220;Views&#8221; menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous tips about <a title=\"Sorting rows of information\" href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2007\/08\/31\/how-to-sort-rows-of-information-to-organize-your-files-and-e-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\">sorting<\/a> and <a title=\"Selecting muliple ites from a list\" href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2007\/10\/23\/how-to-selecting-multiple-items-from-a-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">selecting<\/a> items from a list, it&#8217;s often easier to find things by showing file &#8220;Details&#8221; or &#8220;Thumbnails&#8221; by using the &#8220;Views&#8221; menu.<\/p>\n<p>The Views menu is sometimes only accessible via an icon, as shown above &#8220;Views&#8221; in the example below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Selecting pictures with the Thumbnails View shown\" href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/select-thumbnail-views.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/select-thumbnail-views.jpg\" alt=\"Selecting pictures with the Thumbnails View shown\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the example above I have selected the Thumbnails view, so that I could see and select multiple pictures. Below the same files are selected with the Details view and sorted by name.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Selecting and sorting items with the Details View shown\" href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/select-details-view.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/select-details-view.jpg\" alt=\"Selecting and sorting items with the Details View shown\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the example above I could choose different detail headings to show (i.e. Name, Size, Date Picture Taken, etc.) by right-clicking on one of the column headers and checking from the available headings that are shown.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/displaying-file-information-with-the-views-menu\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print This Article\" title=\"Print This Article\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/displaying-file-information-with-the-views-menu\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\">Print This Article<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous tips about sorting and selecting items from a list, it&#8217;s often easier to find things by showing file &#8220;Details&#8221; or &#8220;Thumbnails&#8221; by using the &#8220;Views&#8221; menu. The Views menu is sometimes only accessible via an icon, as shown above &#8220;Views&#8221; in the example below&#8230; In the example above I have selected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}