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A set is a collection of articles from various databases or of nested sets. It is kind of a custom database of articles, and it belongs to a larger database.
It allows to insert all these articles at once into the Minutes. The position in the general process shows in Data Model.
The articles of a set - unlike a virtual database - are NOT dynamically linked to the database they originate in. The source can be retrieved as far the article reference is not altered (see #5 in the figure below), but the articles can be modified apart in the set or in the database.
A set is created in the Minutes thru the following steps for a set with two articles (#2 and #3):
1.How to Insert an Article into a Section of Minutes
2.How to Insert an Article into a Section of Minutes
4.How to Retrieve the Source of an Article
5.How to Retrieve the Source of an Article
Unlike a set in the Minutes (refer to How to Create Sets of Minutes), a set of articles does not depend on the estimate which it has been created with, and it is created outside it; if it consumes an estimate's global variable, it takes the present value and does not maintain a link with the global variable.
Database of Sets
Any set must be enrolled in a database of sets because a set can be viewed only in its database's viewer.
A database of sets is a file whose extension is grp.
A set can be in turn inserted into the minutes. The full diagram is as follows:
NOTES
- A set can include other sets (refer to Nested Sets)
- A database of sets can include sets with articles whose source is not in its folder
Topic content
How to Create an Empty Database of Sets
How to Fill out the Fields of the List of Articles
How to Manage the Workbook 'List of Articles'