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→Add data to the source: Select a media object selector
Now, let us continue with adding one of the documents in this folder as a reference document for a source. Double click (or select and then press {{Man key press|ENTER}}) to open the source 'Interview with John Doe'. Look at the tab headers for the record list of the Source Editor. You should see: Notes, Gallery, Attributes, Repositories, References. you want to add Media objects in the Gallery tab of this source.
Click on the {{man label|Gallery}} tab, and then on the little '''Add''' icon in the right of the toolbar just below the tabs. This opens a [[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Select_a_media_object_selector|File Selector (Select a media object selector) dialog ]] where you can select that image of yourself. At the bottom of this dialog is a box '''Title:''' where you can a nice descriptive title... such as 'Picture of John Doe'. Entering a title will not change the file name. Make sure you select the {{man label|[ ] Convert to a relative path}} checkbox. with the correct image selected, Press {{man button|OK}} button. You will now see the ''Media Reference Editor'' dialog. The top of this dialog allows to select a region of the picture, <abbr title="exempli gratia - Latin phrase meaning 'for example'">e.g.</abbr> if you have added a group photo, it makes sense to indicate which person in the photo is John Doe. You can use the mouse in the preview picture to select the part of the picture of interest (click and drag from corner 1 to corner 2). Click {{man button|OK}} to remember the image. This should return you to the Source Editor for the 'Interview with John Doe' source.
You can attach more than photos and scans. Suppose you have a fully typed-out transcript of the interview. In that case, you can add the formatted document (<abbr title="OpenDocument Text format's file extension">odt</abbr>, <abbr title="Microsoft Word document format's file extension">doc</abbr>, <abbr title="rich text format's file extension">rtf</abbr>, <abbr title="et cetera - Latin phrase meaning 'and so on'">etc.</abbr>) in the {{man label|Gallery}}. But you might also store the text as a {{man label|Note}} in Gramps. The good thing about using a Note is that Gramps can search the text of Notes using filters. So, click on the {{man label|Notes}} tab, click the '''Add''' icon, and you are presented with a basic editor into which you can type or paste text.
