[Tellico-users] Question about subsets of data

[shelagh.manton at gmail.com]

I knew there would be a way.


Ta muchly

Shelagh


On 7 October 2013 07:34, Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org> wrote:

> On 10/04/2013 05:37 PM, Shelagh Manton wrote:
>
>> Just tried to save a subset of data to another tellico file and I think I
>> must be missing something.
>>
>> I filtered out a set of items which then appeared in the column view.
>> Then I highlighted all the items and saved as culledbooks.tc.
>>
>> When I opened the new file, all the books from the old file were still in
>> there. How does one save a subset of data to another file?
>>
>
> One approach would be to select the books you want to have in the file,
> then do File->Export to Zip. That actually exports to a Tellico zip file
> (which is all the .tc file is) and check the option for "Export selected
> entries only".
>
>  In the end I did a reverse filter (not equals) and deleted all the
>> matching items and saved that file to the new name. But it is not an
>> ideal method I must say.
>>
>
> That would have been my next suggestion. :) That's partly why the reverse
> filters exist.
>
> Robby
>
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