How do collections and series work?

A collection groups works: a series, a year, or an art fair, and one work can be in several. Manage them in Collections and check works into them from the Pieces editor. A collection shown on the site becomes its works’ public series label and series page, and its description appears on that page. A collection kept off the site is a private grouping.

A collection can be part of a larger one, such as a series of paintings inside Paintings. Open the collection and choose the larger one under Part Of, or use the list under Order On Your Website on the Collections page: drag a collection to the right to put it inside the one above it, and to the left to take it back out. To do several at once, tick them, press Set selected and choose Put inside a collection. Your website then lists the larger collection only. Its page shows all of its works together, and the collections inside it appear under the decades as a filter. No artwork changes collection when you do this, so taking a collection back out puts everything as it was.

To split your artwork across two pages, each with its own list, add a second page with an Artwork Archive block in the Website Builder. On each block set Automatic View to Chosen Collections and tick the collections that page lists. A work's own page then shows the list of the page it belongs to.

To change many works at once, open Pieces. The Collections column lists every collection each work is in. The All collections filter shows the works in one collection or in several at once, and Shown and hidden narrows the list to works that are on your website or off it. Tick the works, press Set selected, and choose Add to a collection, Move to one collection (they leave every other collection), or Take out of a collection.

To change the order your website shows works in, press Arrange on Pieces. Your works appear as small pictures: pick a collection and drag a picture to a new place. The order saves as soon as you drop it. Click a picture to choose it, then use Edit Image to crop it or set its focal point. Hold Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) and click to choose several, or Shift and click to choose a run, then drag one of them to move them all. The eye on a picture shows or hides that work on your website.

The same editor opens from the Website Builder. Open your Artwork page in the Website Builder and press Edit Gallery above the works. You can also click a collection in the preview and drag a work right on the page.