Combining Vehicle Data Sets

Plate Analysis can often involve the creation of a large number of iBase sets, Combining Vehicle Data Sets allows you to combine multiple sets in a single operation. The combination is additive only; all of the records in all of the specified sets will be added to a new set, with a specified name, and duplicates will be removed from the set automatically.

About this task

The resulting set can be used for further analysis using iBase or the other functions of iBase Plate Analysis. The original sets are not affected and remain available for further analysis or for use in other combinations.
Note: Removing duplicates only relates to set membership, the original database records remain unchanged.

Procedure

  1. Click Add and, in the Select Set dialog, select the sets you want to combine. You can select several sets at once, they do not have to be added individually. Click OK to select the sets and close the Select Set dialog.
  2. Click Combine to put all the records into a new set. You will be asked to specify a new and unique name for the combined set; specify a category in the Categorize dialog, and then click OK to create the set.
    A message will be displayed to confirm that the sets have been successfully combined.
    Note: If you want to remove sets from the selection before creating the combined set, select the required set or sets and click Remove.