As promised in our recent post about the Photojunction Welcome screen, I wanted to take some extra time to go over the Browse tab with some suggestions to maybe make your workflow smoother. The first column is your Client column. This seems fairly self-explanatory right? In column 2 your clients could have multiple Events. For example, an engagement shoot, wedding, day-after session, maternity shoot, newborn shoot, and then family shoot. Wouldn't it be wonderful if every client were booking that many shoots? Each event can then have multiple Products (column 3). For a wedding, you might create proof sheets, a slideshow, a bridal album, and two different parent albums, among other things. The primary reason to keep multiple products under one event is to only import the images once. HUGE timesaver. The last column is Exports. Here you can easily locate where you saved your exports (proof layouts, high res layouts, etc) to for each Product. How about those buttons at the bottom of each column? From left to right, Add New, Edit, Duplicate, Delete. If you float over the button in question while in Photojunction, you will get a bit of a longer description. Now for the tips you have been waiting for! (Now I work in support I know how important these are to both you and your vendors. And you'll find the most important of all under PRODUCT. CLIENT - Remember, over time you'll develop a big database of projects here. Call your clients by their actual names so that you know what to search for! This is what Photojunction uses to name your project folder. - Folders don't like funny characters, so don't use them. Avoid &, *, <, etc. - If you use only letters, numbers, and underscore, your project folder will be named exactly as your client, plus a string of characters PJ adds. - Use the other fields! If you have a client ID number, use the reference field, this can only help in sorting through clients to find the job you are looking for. EVENT -Since you named your client so perfectly, you can name this however you please. Wedding, Engagement, etc. PRODUCT - This is the main ID used for your album orders ("Your Reference" on the set-up screen) and how you name them is really important. Especially when you're talking to Queensberry! -As this earlier post says, searching a gazillion orders for an album you've called “Bride and Groom” or “Wedding Album” or “QBY 12×12″ or "Final" is a bit hopeless. Having a specific formula (we recommend the client names and the event date - eg BOB AND CELIA MAR 11) is far, far more helpful. - Since the product type is included automatically, there's no point calling it "Slideshow" or "Album" anyway. - Avoid special characters in this name as well. This will be especially helpful if you upload to AlbumExposure. Follow these tips and check out the classroom videos if you have a minute. PJ Nanny would be so proud! Angelique