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title: "DataSet Manager v3.0.1"
canonical: "https://servicedesk.maxgeo.com/space/DS/1272709124/DataSet%20Manager%20v3.0.1"
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DataShed5 allows users to view/visualise data in a DataShed / Maxwell Data Schema (MDS) database. Within a database, data is typically divided into a number of datasets, and data is assigned as a member of one of these datasets. The DataSet Manager allows the user to select one or more of the datasets that have been assigned to them as ‘active’ in the DataShed5 session.

Datasets are displayed with a database icon while Projects are displayed using a table icon.

To activate one or more datasets, click the ‘DataSet Manager’. The DataSet Manager window appears, with a list of datasets that are available to the current user. These datasets may be structured in simple list, or they could be organised in a hierarchy of Projects, each of which contains datasets and/or other Projects.

Datasets that are set to not current will be displayed at the bottom of the list and be italic dimmed font. In the example below we can see the *MXACS* dataset is not active.

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Select/deselect datasets by clicking the check boxes on the left side of the list. Click ‘Activate DataSets’ to activate the selected datasets. Any currently open items (maps, tables, reports) must be refreshed to incorporate data from the new dataset selection.

A selection name can be entered in ‘Save Selection As:’ and clicking ‘Save’ will save this selection as a named set. Previously saved named sets are shown at the top of the DataSet Manager where it says ‘Saved DataSets’, clicking the down-arrow could be necessary to show the complete list. Buttons next to each listed selection allow the saved sets to be loaded, or to delete the saved selection. Deleting the set does not delete the actual datasets, only the saved group.

Clicking ‘Close’ will close the window with no changes to the currently active datasets.

DataShed5 will remember the active dataset selection across login sessions. Each time after logging into DataShed5, it will automatically activate the same group of datasets that was in use at the end of the previous session.