The info view is probably one of the most versatile and customizable features of the Pedias. You can use it to display your entries, view websites, see your database statistics, access Amazon ListMania lists and on top of that, you can write your own templates to make the info view look exactly the way you want.

To access the info view, click on the info button in the toolbar    or go into the menu Window and choose Info View. You can then change the size of the info view by moving its top bar up or down. The info view lets you mark entries as borrowed, bought, returned or part of your wish list. All you have to do is ctrl-click (right-click) anywhere in the info view and choose the right option from the contextual menu. You can view websites straight inside your Pedia application with the info view. Ctrl-click (right-click) anywhere inside the info view and choose 'Go to site' from the contextual menu. That will bring up a small floating window with a URL address field. Enter the URL you are looking for and click the 'Go' button.
The advantage of using the info view over a regular browser is that in the info view you can access the contextual menu that allows you to easily add entries to the database or add summaries, images and links to the selected entry. To access Amazon's ListMania lists inside the Pedias select an entry, ctrl-click inside the info view and choose 'View ListMania for Selection' from the contextual menu. Or use the Advanced menu/View ListMania for Selection option. If Amazon has any ListMania lists with the selected entry, the info view will show you the lists and you can choose whether you'd like to view them at Amazon or inside the Pedia directly. The info view also lets you see images, text files, URLs or Quicktime movies linked to an entry. Once again the magic trick is ctrl-click. Just select an entry and ctrl-click anywhere inside the info view. Select 'View Links for Selection' and the files will be displayed in the info view. (Depending on the info view template you use, you will also be able to click the exact link title to open.) In the Window menu/Info View Style you can choose which of the many style templates to use. Another way to change the style is to ctrl-click (right-click) inside the info view and choose Style from the contextual menu. Here are few examples of the info view templates: Most templates are set up to only display fields that actually contain information to avoid clutter. However, if there are certain fields you never want to see, go into the Preferences/Info and uncheck the box next to that field. Because the info view is built on HTML templates, it is fully customizable.
NOTE: Because the info view templates folder is located inside the actual application, the folder gets overwritten with every update. To make sure your own template does not get overwritten during an update, you need to save it your in the Pedia data folder. To do this, create a new folder titled 'InfoTemplates' inside your home folder under User/Library/Application Support/[Name of the Pedia] and place the template in there. For any images the template uses you have to create a folder inside 'InfoTemplates' named 'Images'.

To start customizing a template, you first need to open it in a text editor so you can see the actual code of the template. The info view templates are all located inside the application, unlike the export templates which can be found in User/Library/Application Support/[Name of the Pedia]/Templates.

To open an info view template, you need to ctrl-click the Pedia application icon so you'll see a contextual menu like this: Choose 'Show package contents' from the menu and then navigate to Contents/Resources/WebViewFiles. Inside that folder, you'll find four folders named 'en', 'fr', 'es' and 'de'. These stand for the localizations. So depending on what language you use your Pedia in, open the appropriate folder, find the template you want to work with and open it with any text editor. (Either by ctrl-clicking the template and choosing your preferred text editor via 'Open with...' or by dragging the template over your text editor icon in the dock.)

Most of the info view templates contain all the possible fields for an entry. However, they are encased by two tags: <--IFtitle and ENDtitle-->. These tags mean that the field, if it is not filled in the entry in your Pedia, will not show up in the info view. So when you want to delete a field from an info view template, you have to delete all of it, including the IF and END tags. For example, if you want to delete the Price field, you look for "Price" in the template and when you find it, you have to delete everything as it is highlighted below: