The Collections tool in Details is a powerful organizational tool, and it's a great way to plan ahead and quickly access grouped items. With the holidays upon us, this week we're going to look at how you might make a themed collection in your Item Gallery!

👉 If you're not too familiar with Collections, check out this video: Designing with Collections

Creating a Themed Collection

Here in the United States, Thanksgiving is at the end of November on November 25th so we're going to walk through creating a Thanksgiving-themed collection!

Get started in the Gallery home and follow these steps to create a new Collection:

• Click the 'Add New' button in the top-right
• Select 'New Collection'
• Give your Collection a name and a cover color or image (descriptions are optional!)
• Click 'Add Collection' to complete!

Now, it's time to gather together the items needed for our Thanksgiving Collection! Use the search panel to locate specific items, or browse the gallery. Once you locate an item you'd like to include in your Collection, follow these steps to move it over:

• Click the 'Options' button in the bottom-center of the screen
• Select 'Selection Mode'
• Click the desired item(s) to highlight them to be copied
• Click the 'Copy' or 'Cut' (whichever is applicable) button at the bottom to move the item to the clipboard
• Navigate to your themed collection and click 'Paste' to drop the item into the collection!

Repeat these steps until you have all the items in your themed collection, like so 👇

Collections & the Design Board

Need to use these items in an event now? Add an entire collection of items to your Design Board at once! It's easy, just follow these steps:

• From the Gallery Home, click the 'Options' button at the bottom-center.
• From the Options, pick 'Selection Mode'.
• Select the Collection you want to use.
• Click 'More' at the bottom-center.
• From the available options, click 'Add to Favorites'

Proposal Access

Head over the the 'Proposal' tab of any event and you'll see the 'Proposal Access' area in the top-right of the page. If you haven't published a version of the proposal yet, it will be blank, but after you publish the proposal you'll see the following options:

• Expiration Date: Want to limit the amount of time a client has to view the proposal and decide whether to accept? Set an expiration date and save! 
  You can always come back and remove or extend the expiration date if needed.

• Proposal Link: This is where you'll access the link to the proposal. Copy this link by clicking in the field or by clicking the 'Copy' button and send it to your client when the proposal is ready to go! No need to copy and send this each time you publish a new version of the proposal, it will automatically be updated with your new content!

• View: Take a look at what the client-view of the proposal is!
• Create New Link: Want to create a new link for the proposal? Click right here!
• Revoke Access: The kill switch; the big red button. Use this to shut down proposal access immediately - don't worry, it's not permanent, you can return access if you need to!