How to Use PubGizmo

While there are specific functions performed by each of PubGizmo's modules, there's a general convention on how to use specific features throughout. This gizmos and gadgets are helpful to know.

Getting Around

Clicking

Buttons

Most of PubGizmo's navigation duplicates what you already do in software and on websites: click an item (only a single click is necessary) to go somewhere else. Click a Contacts button to go to the Contacts module. Easy.

Links

Also like the web, PubGizmo provides "links" that you can click to go to that target info. These links are created automatically as you add data; you don't need to do anything special.

On the web, you can identify a link a couple of ways: it might be in blue, or underlined, or both.

In PubGizmo, links are green: "green means go." So if you are viewing a Contact record for an author, the Titles tab/portal shows all the Title records associated with this author in green. Click one to visit that Title record. In this case, if you click on the first green title:

You will navigate to that Title record.

On the Title record, you'll see that the opposite end of this link will take you back to the author's record:

Searching

You can also go to a specific record by searching.

Portals

A portal is at its simplest, a list, but they are actually sexier than that, in that in many cases they are lists of records in other modules. For example, an author's Contact record includes a portal that lists all the Titles for which the author is a contributor, that is, each item in that portal is also a record in PubGizmo (it's a "portal" to other Title records).