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The Joy of Sets

Can you remember which records you want to publish in a particular publication? Is it all the records in one table? Just the companies in North America? Only the products on special offer? Only the ones that are in the "Over 50s" category? A selection that you chose manually? Use the Set Manager to create and maintain any number of sets of data!

What a Set can do

Sets can be used in two ways:

  1. You tell the Set Manager which table to draw data from and how to determine which records to include in the Set.
  2. You can create an "ad-hoc" set and save it

Using the Set Manager

A new Set record looks like this:

the Set Manager

As an example, we will create a set containing all contacts in the UK. In our Demo Database, we have a table called Photographers which this data will be drawn from.

Creating an "ad-hoc" set

You've just done a rather complicated query and found a set of records that you might want to revisit. Or maybe you manually selected some companies that you want to target for a marketing campaign and you need to have a way of instantly finding that same selection again.

No problem!

Choose Save these Records as a Set from the File menu and enter a name for the set. If you subsequently want to change the records in that set, simply re-save them with the same name; you'll be asked if you want to replace the existing set.

How Sets can be used

What's Next?

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