Place Resources
Manifold Resources are media added to and contained within a Project. Resources may center an argument or contextualize and enhance a Text. This page details the latter, describing the process of associating Resources with specific passages of Texts.
Prerequisites
There are two requirements before a passage of Text can be annotated with a Resource: first, the Project must contain at least one Resource; second, a user must have the appropriate credentials to perform this action. Only those users who can access the Project in the backend or who are designated as Project Authors are able to place Resources onto a Project Text.
Directions
While loading Resources to a Project takes place in the backend, placing an existing Project Resource in a Text happens in the frontend, in the Manifold Reader.
To place a Resource, open the Text you want to annotate and select with your mouse a specific passage of Text you want to associate the Resource with.
A menu will appear beside your pointer with a number of options. Select Resource. A drawer will open from the right of the screen with a view of all the Resources and Resource Collections currently loaded to the Project. From this view you can search for specific Resources or page through them.
Once you select a Resource (or Resource Collection) a marker in the form of a gray cube will appear at the end of your text selection and a thumbnail view of the Resource will appear in the left margin beside the text block. The Resource is now placed.
If you do not see Resource as an option when you select a passage of text, the account you’re logged in with doesn’t have the appropriate credentials to place a Resource.
Removing Resources
If you want to remove a placed Resource, move your mouse over the thumbnail in the left margin. In the upper right corner of the thumbnail there is button, designated with an X, that will delete the notation when selected.
If using a keyboard, you can tab-select the Resource thumbnail and choose the delete button with the space bar.