Is it possible to assign an icon to a collection and have it propagate down to all subfolders in the collection?
Can it be done with a library?
Thanks.
Ron
If you mean folders as in sub-collections (not real directories that are just added to the collection as members), then you can do that using a wildcard label like coll://My collection* where the label is set to change the icon of matching files.
For the real directories, label matching is done on their real paths not their collection paths. (Needing that would be quite unusual though, unless the aim is to just use a collection to find things and then change their icons, which you can do in other ways.)
With libraries, you could apply similar labels to the paths that the library includes, if you don't mind those directories having the same icons outside of the library.
Thanks, Leo. I've used your idea of wildcard labels to do what I wanted with collections. Using a wildcard of coll://Audio*/* I can assign an icon with a musical note, and it actually appears for both the top-level collection and for the subfolders under the collection. The subfolders are real folders as well as appearing as sub-collections. It seems that DOpus created corresponding sub-collections when I dragged all the subfolders (of a parent audio folder) to the collection. (If I start to delete one of them in the File Collections tree, I get a prompt asking if I want to "delete the collection," not "folder.") The musical-note icons are appearing for the sub-collections, but not for the corresponding subfolders outside of Collections (as I wanted).
I can't get icons for Libraries to work in a similar way. When I make a wildcard label with lib://AudioLib*/* the icon only appears for the top-level library. So it appears that I would have to make a wildcard label for the real folders, which is not what I want. (If I start to delete a sub-library, the confirmation prompt asks if I want to "delete the folder.")
Ron
The libraries presumably only have a small number of folders at the top level (i.e. the folders that make up the library), so you could apply labels to those folders to match them and all sub-folders of them, covering everything in the library.