All records displayed in the output layout are said to be "in selection". Below three records in selection were manually select by the user. These three records can be turned into the current selection by Show Subset or eliminated from the current selection by Omit Subset. Let's start with Show Subset.
Press the Ctrl key and click on three incidents. From the Select menu choose Show Subset. FirePoint will immediately display only the selected records.
If we chose Omit Subset from the Select menu all highlighted records would have been omitted from selection.
In addition to subset FirePoint can handle sets. A set is a specific selection of records. Using the Search button and Quick Search command we'll place all Engine Company 52 responses in selection.
Now we'll establish this selection of records as a set.
Here we've named the set "EngCo52" and pressed OK.
Pressing the Show All buttons will change the current selection to all records. But we can recall our Eng Co set by choosing Recall Set from the Select menu. When FirePoint presents a list of sets. Click on the Eng Co set to display it.
Sets can also be selected by pressing the Search button and doing a Pop Search. Just select the Set you want from the pop-up list in the lower left corner.
Sets can also be merged with other sets using the Merge Sets command.
From the Select menu choose Manage Sets.
Once a set is created it can be deleted (cleared) or it can be saved to disk. Sets not saved to disk will disappear when the user exists FirePoint.
Sets are most often used during the reporting process. Suppose you want to generate several different reports for incidents occurring between January 1st and March 31st. You would start by selecting incidents between those dates.
You could establish a set called "1st Qtr". Each time you run a report you can avoid having to search for the correct incidents by simply recalling the "1st Qtr" set.