Collections are used to create a list of artworks (group of artworks). They are useful as a tool to organise your inventory for yourself, but also because you can use them to:
Create catalogs
Quickly add artworks to Private Rooms or Exhibitions
Select artworks to display on websites you have integrated with your Art Galleria account
There are two types of collections:
Smart collections allow you to automatically include existing and future artworks based on a criteria you specify.
Standard collections are fixed, meaning that you can manually add existing artworks and organise them in a specific order.
Smart Collections
In Smart collections, you can automatically include artworks based on:
the artist
a location
one or more artwork status options (draft, for sale, sold, etc.)
a range of artwork years
a price range
the time they were added to the inventory (specified number of days)
a category
If you enter more than selection in the criteria, artworks will be included based on selections entered. In future, when you add artworks to your inventory that meet these specific criteria, they will automatically be added to the smart collection.
For step-by-step instructions, see Creating and Editing Smart Collections.
Standard Collections
In Standard collections (also referred to just as collections), you manually select which artworks to include. To do this you can:
Edit the collection, search the inventory and add artworks to the collections, or
Edit an artwork, go to the Collections tab, and assign the artwork to one or more standard collections.
This type of collection allows you to put artworks in a specific order, which becomes very useful to set the order in which artworks are displayed in a catalog, private room or website portfolio.
For step-by-step instructions, see Creating and Editing Standard Collections.