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Collections and items

A collection is a group of related things. An item is one individual thing inside that collection.

For example, “Vintage Cameras” might be a collection, while a particular Polaroid Land Camera would be an item. Every item belongs to one collection, and a collection can contain as many items as your plan allows.

Create a collection

Open your account menu and select Dashboard or Manage Your Collections, then select Create Collection.

The collection form includes:

Theme and category — place the collection in Akurium’s broader organizational structure. Choose a theme first to see its categories.
Collection name — the name people will see on your profile and throughout Akurium.
Description — optional context about the collection, its purpose, or what belongs in it.
Visibility — determines whether other people can see the collection.
Cover image — an optional image that represents the collection.
Video URL — an optional supported video to feature with the collection.

Theme, category, collection name, and visibility are required.

After saving, Akurium opens the collection editor. You can update its details and manage its items from the same page.

Add an item

Open the collection and select Add Item. If you start from inside a collection, Akurium selects that collection for you.

An item requires:

A collection
A title
A status
A visibility setting
An audience setting

The description, gallery images, additional notes, video, and category-specific attributes are optional. Keep in mind that descriptions and additional notes appear on a published item’s public page.

Choose the item’s status

Status describes your relationship to the item rather than who can see it:

Active — the item is in your possession and in use or ready to use.
Transferred — you sold, traded, gave away, or otherwise passed on the item.
Decommissioned — the item is no longer in use because it was retired, lost, broken, or met a similar fate.

New items default to Active. You can change the status later without removing the item from your records.

Choose an audience

Every item must have one of these audience settings selected before it can be saved:

All Audiences — the item’s text, images, and video are suitable for general viewing.
Mature Audiences — something in the item may not be suitable for everyone.

Items marked for mature audiences remain identified as mature. Akurium may blur their images or show a warning unless the viewer has chosen to display mature content.

Understand visibility

Collections and items each have their own visibility setting:

Published — visible to other people, provided the item’s collection is also published.
Draft — a work in progress that only you can see.
Private — retained for your own viewing.
Archived — no longer current or actively displayed, but still retained in your account.

An item is publicly visible only when both the item and its collection are Published. Publishing an item inside a draft, private, or archived collection does not make the item public.

This lets you prepare items in advance, hide an entire collection without changing every item, or keep selected items out of an otherwise public collection.

Edit and arrange items

Open Manage Your Collections, select a collection, and scroll to its items. From there you can:

Select Add Item to create another item.
Select Edit beside an item to change its details.
Drag items into the order you want them displayed.
Change the visibility of several selected items at once.
Delete items you no longer want in the collection.

Changes to an item’s title, description, notes, images, attributes, status, visibility, or audience can be made later. Use View Item or View Collection to check how published content appears to other people.

A practical starting point

You do not need to catalog everything at once. Create one collection, add a few representative items, and record only the details that feel useful. Consistency becomes easier once you have seen a handful of your own items together.