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Axiope Catalyzer is a combined data management, data sharing and data publication tool. Catalyzer lets you enter, edit, browse, search and export your own structured information - it's more powerful than spreadsheets, more structured than documents and way simpler than databases.
If you'd like to get up and running quickly with the software, this chapter shows you how to:
The next chapter, Introducing Catalyzer includes a more extensive introduction to what you can use Catalyzer for, and describes what "catalogs", "records" and "classes" are exactly.
Chapter 3, Making Catalogs shows in detail how to create and edit catalogs of your own information. Chapter 4, Spreadsheet / table mode shows how you can use Catalyzer as a more powerful alternative to spreadsheets, with a similar user interface. Chapter 5, Searching, filtering and browsing shows how to use the Catalyzer features for simple and sophisticated searching and sorting of your data.
Chapter 6, Importing and exporting details how to build catalogs from data you already have on hard disk or CD. Chapter 7, Creating web pages shows how any catalog can be turned into a set of structured web pages just by pressing the "Publish" button.
Chapter 8, Advanced Features describes the more advanced features built into catalyzer including template catalogs, required fields and user defined types. Chapter 9, Reference includes details of all the different field types and options, for reference purposes.
Chapter 10 gives some all-important ideas on How Catalyzer can fit in with existing workflows by providing some common example uses.
The final chapters cover Licenses, Hints, Tips and Troubleshooting and a Technical appendix.