Managing Bookmarks with the Bookmarks Manager

Bookmarks are available in both the MediaHub and the File Browser. The Bookmarks menu holds your bookmarks, while also giving you access to the Bookmarks Manager and a Session History menu.

Tip: Session History gives you access to the 30 previously-visited paths. It gets cleared every time you exit the application.

Adding a bookmark:

1. When in the folder to bookmark, select Add Bookmark... from the Bookmarks menu.
2. In the Add Bookmark dialog box, select a Category, Name, and Visibility.

Category:

• Assign the bookmark to the current project, the current Flame user, or set it up as a shared bookmark.
• Project makes the bookmark available to anyone who opens the current Flame project.
• User makes the bookmark only available to you.
• Shared makes the bookmark available to every Flame user that start the application.

Name:

• By default, a bookmark displays the name of the bookmarked folder. If you leave Name empty, the path is displayed instead.
• Disable option Use Folder Name in Add Bookmark to stop automatically naming a bookmark with the name of the bookmarked folder. You will find this option in the Manage Bookmark's Options drop-down button.

Visibility:

• Defines when the bookmark appears.
• Global. The default, makes a bookmark appear anywhere the bookmarks are available.
• Bookmarks set to MediaHub Files, MediaHub Projects, or MediaHub Archives are only available when you're in the associated MediaHub browsers.
• Bookmarks set to Setups are only available when browsing for setups.

Managing Bookmarks

You manage your bookmarks from the Bookmarks Manager. You access it through the Bookmarks drop-down button.

• From the Bookmarks Manager, you can:
  • Create bookmarks.
  • Create folders to organize your bookmarks.
  • Rename a bookmark, or edit its path.
  • Set the visibility of a bookmark.
  • Delete a bookmark.
  • Drag and drop bookmarks to reorganize them between folders or sections.

Using tokens in bookmarked paths:

• You can type in the following tokens to make bookmarks work for any project or user.
• <project>: The project's name.
• <project nickname>: The project's nickname.
• <project home>: The default project's home, /opt/Autodesk/project/<project name>
• <user>: The Flame user's name.
• <user nickname>: The Flame user's nickname.
• <user home>: Placeholder for the OS user's home.
• <flame user home>: Placeholder for the Flame user default path, /opt/Autodesk/user/<user name>
• <folder>: Use the name of folder that contains the bookmark in the manager.

Some additional tips:

• Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate bookmarks using the contextual or gear menus.
• Edit in a single pass many paths and names by first multi-selecting bookmarks with Ctrl+click.

Importing and Exporting Bookmarks

You import and export bookmarks with the options found in Preferences > General > Bookmarks. The export creates an .xml file.

To access the bookmarks directly:

• Bookmarks associated with a project are saved in the cf_bookmarks.xml file located in /opt/Autodesk/project/<project name>/status/. They get migrated alongside the project when you migrate a project to a newer version of Flame.
• Bookmarks associated with a user are saved in the cf_bookmarks.xml file located in /opt/Autodesk/user/<user name>/status/. They are copied over when you create new user with the Copy From option.
• Shared bookmarks are saved in the cf_bookmarks.xml file located in /opt/Autodesk/shared/bookmarks. They are available to all Flame versions (from 2019.2 onward).