Pathname List—Condensed Collection View

With the Collections plugin, if your current DSS file has one or more collections in it, a new option will appear in the DSSVue View menu for displaying the Pathname List. The new View menu option is Condensed - Group Collections. If you select this option, the many pathnames representing the members of your collection(s) will condense down to a single pathname. Like the standard condensed catalog which condenses the dates in the D-part into a range, the condensed collection pathname shows a range of the Collection IDs in the F-part as highlighted in "Figure: Pathname List - Condensed - Group Collections View".

If you select a collection dataset (condensed collection pathname) and click the plot button, DSSVue will produce a plot window that appears to be all legend ("Figure: Collection Plot - All Legend"). This is because a collection is usually a large group of individual datasets, each of which must be included in the legend. See the next section for more information.