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The Libraries List pane has the following parts:

The Libraries List

The Libraries list is displayed in the left pane of the base Memento desktop window. Like the window title & tool bars, it is always present. Its content includes:

  • library groups — that display as folders — and libraries. When a group contains libraries, a dropdown button appears, allowing users to click to make the group the current group and view the libraries within it.
  • Libaries shared with the user
  • Public libraries
  • A search function
  • A list of the user's templates in the Online Template Catalog

A list of the Libraries in the current library group is displayed. The Group can be selected by panning left or right or by selecting the group from the [Group/Main Menu](#The Group/Main Menu).

Library Tiles & Icons

Touching an icon or tile opens the library. Each tile has a [Library Menu](#The Library Menu) and possibly also an Add Entry Menu.

Icons or tiles may be moved (reordered) within the group by dragging.

The Action Menu

Touching the 3-dot icon in the upper-right corner of the screen opens the Action Menu, allowing the user to perform one of the following actions:

Add Library — Opens the Library Edit screen for a new library in the current group

Add Group — Accepts the name of a new group and adds a new group with that name

Open by URL — Accepts a library name at http://libs.mobi/ and opens that library

Rename Group — Presents the name of the current group, allowing the user to alter that name, and accepts the new name as the name of the current group

View — Allows selection of the desired Library List view. The available views are: Large Tile view, Small Tile view, and Icons view

The Group/Main Menu

Touching the 3-line menu in the upper-left corner of the screen opens the Group/Main Menu, which allows selection of the Group to be displayed. The developer occasionally refers to this menu as the slide menu. Some people like to call the 3-line icon a hamburger icon and thus the menu as the hamburger menu.

Below the list of groups, the following menu items are displayed: Favorites — Show an Entries list of entries marked as Favorites across all libraries History — Show an Entries list of entries across all libraries updated in History Recycle Bin — Show a Libraries list of the Recycle Bin

Below that, the following menu items are displayed: Catalog templates — Show a Templates list of catalogued library templates Cloud storage — Show a Cloud Libraries list (not a normal Libraries list) that are synchronized with Memento Cloud Storage Sync with Google — Initiates the synchronization process with Google Sheets on Google Drive. This starts immediately and may continue for a while, depending on how many libraries and entries are to be synchronized.

Below that, the following menu items are displayed: Settings — Show and allow update of Memento settingsHelp — Open the Help menu, containing the following menu options: ; Help Contents: Initiate the Internet browser at the Memento Database Wiki Web site ; Forum: Initiate the Internet browser at the Memento Database Forum Web site ; FAQ: Show this FAQ in the Internet browser Translate — Shows the Memento language translation page in an Internet browser ; User Voice: Initiates Memento User Voice (feature requests) in an Internet browser ; Desktop version: In an Internet browser, shows the page for the Desktop version of Memento ; What's New?: Displays a list of features implemented in the last several Memento releases, with brief hints as to how to use them ; About: Show the About screen, containing version number and license type

The Library Menu

Touching the 3-dot icon in the upper-right corner of the library tile opens a menu of actions that may be performed on the Library.

Protection

Upload to cloud

Link or Sync To Google Sheets

Create shortcut — Create a shortcut on the device's home screen to open either the library's Entry List or its Add Entry card.

Copy — Make a copy of the library structure and optionally also its contents (entries) Note that the expressions (scripts) of Calculation and JavaScript fields are copied, but triggers are not.

Edit — Open the library for editing

Move — Move the library to a different group

Delete — Delete the library