Managing Category Artworks

Categories are mainly there to organize artworks.

An artwork can belong to multiple categories at the same time. Adding a work to one category does not remove it from any other categories it already has.

You can use them for:

• themes
• projects
• series
• exhibitions in progress
• research groups
• any other structure that helps you manage your practice

Choosing which artworks belong

The Artworks tab lets you decide which works are part of the category.

This is managed one category at a time, but each artwork can still belong to several categories across Artlope.

It splits the list into two sections:

• artworks already in the category
• artworks not in the category

Each artwork has a checkbox, so you can include or remove it from the category. Checking a work here adds this category to that artwork. Unchecking it removes only this category from that artwork.

There is also a name filter on this tab, which helps when you need to find one specific work in a large list.

Bulk editing from a category

If a category already contains artworks, you can use Bulk edit from the detail page.

This opens the artworks in bulk edit, so you can update several of them at once without selecting them manually first.

Adding artworks directly from a category

You can also drag images onto a category page.

This gives you the same artwork creation flow used elsewhere in Artlope, but the new artwork is created with the current category already assigned.

You can still assign that artwork to additional categories later if it belongs in more than one place.

If you drop several images, you can choose whether to:

• create one artwork with all images together
• create one artwork for each image

This is useful when you are building a category and adding its works at the same time.