https://www.rimmf.com/w/ 2026-05-21T07:59:39+00:00 https://www.rimmf.com/w/ https://www.rimmf.com/w/lib/tpl/dokubook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addcaption&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add a Caption A caption is a grouping mechanism for elements (or vocabulary terms) that can help to explain the purpose of the elements that come under it. For example, 'Title of the Work', 'Form of the Work', and 'Date of the Work' are all attributes for identifying a Work, and so might be logically grouped under a caption named 'Attributes for identifying the work': text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addcaptiondf&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Add a Caption to a Template Quick Steps In a template: * Put your cursor on the element label that is directly below where you want your new caption to be inserted (go here instead, for instructions if the element is to be inserted at the end of the record/template) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Add an Element to a Record or Template Quick Steps * Put your cursor on the element label that is directly above or below where you want your new element to be inserted * If you wish to insert the element above the element you have selected text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addelementdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Add Element Data to a Record or Template To add data to a record, simply click on the cell in the 'Text' column and enter the data for the corresponding element. If the text box for an element has a down arrow on it's right, then the data to be entered either must or should come from a vocabulary list: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addelementend&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add an Element or Caption to the end of a Record or Template You have to do a special step to add an element or caption at the end of a record or template, because the typical step of pressing <Insert> to add an element will not apply. If you want to add something at the end of a record or template, put your cursor in the (parent) element above where you need a new one added, and either: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addlinktorelatedentity&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Add a Link to a Related Entity Quick Steps In a record for an entity, if you determine that there is a need to link this entity data to data for another entity: * Find the appropriate relationship element, e.g.: * In a Work record, find the 'Expression of Work', or the 'Creator', or the 'Other Person, Family, or Corporate Body Associated with a Work', or the 'Related Work' element text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addsubjectdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Add Subject data to a record Subject data is automatically mapped from a MARC Bib record when RIMMF has to create the Work data as part of the import process. But you can also add subject data when Work data is already in the EI, you just have to do it manually, so you have to know a bit about how we map subject data from MARC Bib records: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addterms&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add a Term to a Vocabulary Quick steps Add a Vocab Term From Within a Record If you need to add a local term to an open vocabulary: * Click on the Text box for the element * Type the local term that you would like to use * Press <TAB> or <Enter> text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:addvocab&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Add a Vocabulary to a Record or Template Quick Steps * Put your cursor on the 'Element label' that is directly below where you want your new vocabulary to be inserted (go here instead, if the vocabulary is to be inserted at the end of the record/template) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:buildwem&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Build WEM 'Build WEM' is designed to speed up the process of providing Work and Expression data for a resource, by copying Manifestation data to pre-assigned elements in Work and Expression records. For Build WEM to function, you must enter data in this prescribed order: start with your Manifestation data, then give any Item data, then provide Work data, then finish up with Expression data. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changedatafolder&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Change to a Different Data Folder of RIMMF Records When you open RIMMF, the software opens whatever is currently set as your default data folder of records, ready for you to work with those records. Here are instructions on how to change to a different data folder and make it your default folder. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changedisplay&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Change the Columns that Display Quick Steps While in a record or a template: 1. To view a hidden column in a display * Click the barred box at the top of the 'element options column' in the top left corner of a record or template form * Click the check box of any column you would like to add to your display text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changedisplays&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Change Record or Template displays You can change the look of your records or templates in a variety of ways. Some of these changes can be made part of your default display, others are only temporary. If you change the default displays for a text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changeelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Change an Element label If you wish to retain certain data but change its Element Label: * Right-click on the Element option box for the element * Select <Change label> * Type the new label, or pick it from the list of available elements text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changeprefix&rev=1754422341&do=diff Change record prefixes in a data folder For introductory information on record prefixes, click here. For versions of RIMMF dated on or before 170614 use these instructions. Its possible to change all occurrences of a record prefix in a single data folder using the RIMMF utility described here. If you have multiple data folders, and want to change a record prefix in all of them, you will have to repeat the steps below for each data folder. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changeprefix2&rev=1754422341&do=diff Change record prefixes in a data folder For introductory information on record prefixes, click here. For versions of RIMMF dated after 170614 use these instructions. Its possible to change all occurrences of a record prefix in a single data folder using the RIMMF utility described here. If you have multiple data folders, and want to change the record prefix in all of them, you will have to repeat the steps below for each data folder. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changerelelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Change a Relationship Element label If the Element Label for a relationship is not specific enough, or is too specific, or you just need to change it to a different one, you can simple choose a different label, as long as the replacement label is part of the same group as the existing label. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:changetonewfolder&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Create a New Empty Data Folder of RIMMF Records When you open RIMMF, the software opens whatever is currently set as your default data folder of records, ready for you to work with those records. Here are instructions on how to create a new text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:copyelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Copy an Element Quick Steps * Place your cursor on the row for the element you wish to copy, and press <F2> OR * With your cursor anywhere: * Right-click on the element options column to the far-left of the element that you wish to copy text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:copytemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Copy a Template Quick Steps * Choose 'File | Open | Template' * Select and open the appropriate Entity folder * Select and open the appropriate existing template * Save the existing template as a new file: choose 'File | Save As' * Give the new template an explanatory name, always beginning with the name of the Entity, e.g., Expression template.Audio text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:copytemplaterf&rev=1754422341&do=diff Copy a Template Copy a Template: Quick Steps * Choose 'File|Open|Template' * Select and open the appropriate Entity folder * Select and open the template you want to copy * Save the existing template as a new file using 'File|Save As' * Give the new template an explanatory name, always beginning with the name of the Entity, e.g., Expression template.Audio text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:createnewexpdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Create New [Entity] Data as a Relationship Link This allows you to link from a relationship element in a record for one entity to newly created data for another entity: * In the Text box for a relationship element * Right-click or <F5> to bring up a menu of options text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:createnewitemdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Item Data From a Manifestation record: * Find or insert the element for 'Exemplar of Manifestation' * Right click on its text box * Choose “Create new Item” * Choose an appropriate Item template * Enter Item data * Add barcode number as 'Identifier for the Item' text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:createnewmanifdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Manifestation Data Beginning at the Manifestation Level * At the Main Menu * Choose File |New record for ... | Manifestation * Choose an appropriate Manifestation template (e.g., 'manifestation template TMQ.Book.Pub.Simple') * text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:createnewpfcdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Create New Person, Family, or Corporate Body Data for a Link From a Work, Expression, Manifestation, or Item (WEMI) record, or Person, Family, or Corporate Body (PFC) record (as appropriate): * In the Text box of an appropriate relationship element: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:createnewworkdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Work Data Beginning at the Manifestation Level From a Manifestation record * Find the element for 'Expression Manifested' * Right click on its text box * Choose “Create new Work” * Choose an appropriate Work template * text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:createvocab&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create a new Local Vocabulary This function is not available at this time, awaiting further implementation of the RDA Registry in RIMMF ---------- In RIMMF, a vocabulary is a container for a list of terms. Once a vocabulary has been linked to an element, all of the terms in the vocabulary are available for use for that element. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:customizecompositekey&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Customize the Composite Key for the Manifestation If you notice that a composite key (CK) for a manifestation is not unique, then you need to add identifying or carrier attribute data to the CK to make it unique. In the manifestation record: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:customizetemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Customize a Template You can customize a template by applying the following options to that template: * Add an Element ; Add a Caption ; Add a Vocabulary * Move an element/caption/vocabulary * Copy an element/caption/vocabulary * Create/Add subproperty of an element/caption/vocabulary * Delete an element/caption/vocabulary * Delete only Children of an element/caption/vocabulary * Add Data These options allow you to: * work with record forms that display: * only c… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:dataentry&rev=1754422341&do=diff Display/Hide Data Entry Instructions We have added some helpful instructions about how you are to record the data for each element. The options are: * Record--data for an element might come from a vocab list or might come from the resource but have to be entered in a specified format (e.g., numbers (1.8), and dates (1.9) or by following some other special instructions, e.g., to make a note) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:deletechildren&rev=1754422341&do=diff Delete only Children Quick Steps * Right-click on the element options column to the left of the element/caption/vocabulary (just called 'element' below, for short)that you want to delete * Choose <Delete only Children> Detailed Steps You can delete a group of sub-elements, leaving the parent element intact, if you wish. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:deleteelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Delete an Element Quick Steps If you wish to delete an entire element and its contents from a record or a template: * Position your cursor anywhere in the row for the element that you wish to delete * Either: * Press function key <F11> text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:deletelink&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Delete a Link Quick Steps To delete a link to another record: * Position your cursor in the Text box that contains the link, and: * Right-click and choose 'Remove link to this ...' * If you are sure, click <Yes> If you wish to remove both the Text box and a text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:deleteterms&rev=1754422341&do=diff Delete vocabulary terms This option is not yet present in RIMMF3. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:deletetextcontents&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Delete the entire contents of a Text box If you wish to clear the contents of a Text box: * Position your cursor anywhere in the Text box you wish to clear * Either: * Press function key <F6> * Right-click on the element options column for the element text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:diacritics&rev=1754422341&do=diff Diacritics and Unicode In RIMMF3, diacritic characters may be entered either as characters or as Unicode code points. Regardless of how they are entered, they are always stored as code points. The format used by RIMMF for a code point is '\u' followed by a 4-byte code. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:elementaddsubprop&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create/Add Element Sub-property Create/Add Element Sub-property: Quick steps * Right-click on the element options column to the left of the element/caption/vocabulary (just called 'element' below, for short) for which you wish to add a sub-element text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:entercopyright&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Enter a copyright or phonogram copyright symbol To enter a copyright or phonogram symbol as part of the data in a record, position your cursor appropriately, and go to the appropriate instructions provided below: * To enter a copyright symbol: * Choose Edit | Copyright symbol; or text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:enterdiacritics&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to enter diacritics This page is from RIMMF2 If you are using RIMMF3, please follow the instructions on this page * Position the cursor where you would like to insert a diacritic. * Go to: <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm> * Find the appropriate page for the character you want, e.g., search “inverted question mark text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:exportrimmf&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Export RIMMF records There are a number of methods that you can use for exporting RIMMF records in a variety of formats--as: * MARC * RIMMF * RDF * XML Export a single Entity record From an entity (Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item, Person, Family, or Corporate Body) record: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:findfolder&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to find things in a 'flash drive' or portable installation When troubleshooting, or just learning your way around, there are two folders that you will generally need to locate in RIMMF: * the folder containing the default tables * the personal folder, where your own data is saved text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:followlink&rev=1754422341&do=diff Go to a Linked Entity Record In a record for an entity, you can follow links to data about related entities in three different ways: * Double-click on the data in the text box for the appropriate relationship element * Click on the appropriate text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:importagent&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Import a MARC Authority record for an Agent Quick Steps * First, find the Agent record that you wish to import * Click <F3> to open the RIMMF Search & Retrieve Tool * Find and select the record you wish to import * Click <Import> * If a record: * is already present in your text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:importexpression&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Import a MARC Authority record for an Expression Quick Steps Warning! If you want to import an Expression of a Work, start with the Expression--it will bring its Work with it. * First, find the Expression record that you wish to import: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:importmanifestation&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Import a MARC Bibliographic record for a Manifestation Quick Steps Warning! If you want to import a Manifestation of an Expression of a Work, start with the Manifestation--it will bring its Work and Expression with it. * First, find the Manifestation record that you wish to import: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:importmarc&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Import MARC You can import MARC records to RIMMF in two ways: * Using the Search & Retrieve Tool <F3> * Dragging and dropping a single MARC record saved on your desktop or in a folder Drag and drop MARC to RIMMF First you have to find the MARC record that you wish to import. You can go directly to your source of records, or you can use the text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:importrdf&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Import RDF If you have a single RIMMF record or a set of RIMMF records that have been exported in RDF format, then you can import them back into RIMMF, either in a new data folder, or to an existing data folder. Be aware that we are still working on matching RIMMF RDF records imported to an existing folder. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:importwork&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Import a MARC Authority record for a Work Quick Steps * First, find the Work record that you wish to import * Click <F3> to open the RIMMF Search & Retrieve Tool * Find and select the record you wish to import * Click <Import> * At this time, If a record: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:linktorecord&rev=1754422341&do=diff Link to another Entity record How to link to another entity record: Quick Steps In the record to which you wish to add a link to a related record: * Right-click on the appropriate RIMMF Identifier (RID) text box * -Hover over “Link to” to choose an existing record you can link to; or text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:linktorules&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Link to RDA Instructions You must, of course have a subscription to the RDA Toolkit, in order for these links to work. If the RDA Rule column is not showing: * follow the instructions at how to Change the Columns that Display to show that column If the RDA Rule column is showing: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:linkvocab&rev=1754422341&do=diff Link a Vocabulary to an Element To link a vocabulary to an element--so that the vocabulary's Terms are available when the associated element is edited in RIMMF--follow these steps: * Close the Vocabulary editor if it is open * Open the Element Editor text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:locaterimmf&rev=1754422341&do=diff What do we mean by the "RIMMF Documents" folder? If you have a standard installation, this folder is probably located in 'My Documents\RIMMF3' But this is not always the case, as this folder may be found in a different location depending on how you login to your computer, your version of Windows, and the type of RIMMF installation that you selected. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:mergerballs&rev=1754422341&do=diff Merge Multiple R-Balls RIMMF is a single user application. To share your data you must export it and make the export accessible to others. If many people are working on a common project, as in a jane-athon, its usually desirable to combine all of that work into a single folder that can then be reloaded into RIMMF. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:mergerecords&rev=1754422341&do=diff Merge two entity records More recent versions of RIMMF include support for merging two entity records into one. This might be useful when combining data folders from different people working on the same project (as in a jane-athon, for instance). To use the record merge utility, go to your text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:moveelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Move an Element Quick Steps * Click and hold on the element options column to the far-left of the element, and move the cursor slightly to bring up the curved arrow * Move the curved arrow to a new position for the element, and release text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:movesubelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff Move a sub-element to another Element In RIMMF, a “sub-element” is an element that has another non-root element as its immediate parent. In the following snap * Title proper and Other title information are sub-elements of Title * Place of publication text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:outputxml&rev=1754422341&do=diff Output record as XML The first version of RIMMF by default saves records in a custom text format. However, it is also possible to save your records in XML format. To do this, go to the 'Tools|Setup' menu and select the 'Record file-type' option: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:proxyserver&rev=1754422341&do=diff Web access and Proxy server setup This is one of those things. It should be straightforward. When RIMMF tries to access HTML content (RIMMF user guide, RDA Toolkit, etc.), it uses the default internet settings on your computer. For example, when you press F1 to open the RIMMF user guide, RIMMF simply opens the page in (a stripped down version of) your default browser. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:searchandretrieve&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Search for Data Outside RIMMF Quick Steps Search You can search for data outside RIMMF from anywhere in RIMMF (while you are in a record, in a template, or at the main menu). * Open the search menu: * See Invoking the Search Interface for details. * Enter a heading or other words to search text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:searchand_retrieve&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Search the Entity Index * Open the Entity Index At the bottom of the Entity Index (aka the 'EI') you will see the search control, consisting of: * A text box (where you input the value to be searched) * An 'X' button (quick way to clear the text box) * text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:searchrimmfuserguide&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Search the RIMMF User Guide To do keyword searching in this User Guide: * Go to the Search box (under the navigation box) * If you do not see the Search box: * Click on '[RIMMF3 HOME] at the top of the wiki screen (light grey) * text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:seeelementdefinitions&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: See Element Definitions Quick Steps In a record or a template, to see a definition of an element, either: * Right-click on the element options column of the element; or * go here to see how to Show an element definition as help hint Detailed Steps RIMMF takes element definitions from the text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:selectvocabterm&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Choose data from a vocabulary list Quick Steps If a data element has a vocabulary list, you can enter a term from the list by: * clicking on the Text box for the element and either: * choosing a term from the list, by: * clicking on the down arrow to the right of the text box text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:sharerecords&rev=1754422341&do=diff Share records created in RIMMF To BE UPDATED Until such time as we implement a nice web interface to RIMMF records, the following steps may be used to share your records with other users: * Email: RIMMF records are simple text files, so you can attach them individually to an email message text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:sharetemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to: Share a Template Quick Steps To share a template: * Open the appropriate entity folder in the \RIMMF3\templates\ folder * Copy and paste the template you wish to share to a method of sharing files To use a shared template: * Open the appropriate entity folder in the \RIMMF3\templates\ folder text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:sidebar-old&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to do stuff in RIMMF How to: * Add a Caption * Add a Link to a Related Entity * Add a Term to a Vocabulary * Add a Vocabulary to a Record or Template * Add an Element * Add an Element at the end of a Record * Add Data to a Record or Template * Build WEM * Change to a different folder of RIMMF records * Change Displays * Change the Columns that Display * Change RIMMF Identifier prefixes in a file * Choose Data from a Vocabulary List * Copy an Element * Copy a T… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:sidebar&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF User Guide * RIMMF terminology * Menu Options * Main Menu * Record Menu * How To ... * Learn about ... * RIMMF Templates * RIMMF Tutorials * RIMMF Notes text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:updateencoding&rev=1754422341&do=diff Update character encoding In update 150502 of RIMMF3, we added an utility named 'Data encoding updater' to the Tools menu: This utility will convert diacritics in older RIMMF data (data created before Christmas, 2014; at this time, support for unicode code points was added RIMMF3) to use unicode code points. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:userball&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to use a RIMMF r-ball If you have been sent a RIMMF r-ball as a zip file, or a link to a RIMMF r-ball, then, at the Main Menu: * Close all open records and RIMMF functions, except the Main Menu * Select Tools | Download web folder * Select the r-ball: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:howto:wemilinks&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn About: WEMI Links RIMMF provides buttons at the bottom of entity records to help you to move from one WEMI record to another within a set of records. These buttons are called 'WEMI Links'. In a WEMI record, they only work to take you 'up' to other records in the WEMI tree, not down.