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Looking for ideas on how we might be able to make these 'X' tags more meaningful (read: functional). Presently, I believe they're only used for 'new dataset' operations.

From VP Help on "Using Group Exclusion in new dataset operations"

"...when creating new datasets using a group, the 'excluded' state has the specific meaning of a Boolean NOT operator."

I thought it would be useful to be able to see the effect of these excluded group items reflected in the Title and Detail windows when the user selects the group name in a list view.

Since I can't include a screen capture, I'll refer to the Example in the VP referenced above.

In that example, the new dataset created using the group "Sample" would include all records that meet the criteria:

((Descriptors = "Computer vision" OR Descriptors = "Sensors") NOT Descriptors = "Algorithms")

I'm suggesting that when the user is viewing a list, and selects the group column heading for "Sample" it would be helpful for the Title (and maybe Detail) window to update according to those same criteria.

Either:
- Make the Title window display titles for ONLY records that meet the criteria
 OR
- Display all the record titles for the group's Checked items ("computer vision OR sensors"), then shade (or somehow flag) titles for the records affected by the "NOT Algorithms" meaning of the Exclude tag. (This option sounds better to me because it allows the user to see the titles for records that won't be included in new datasets)

Another thing to consider - If the user selects more than one group - How to handle:

- Resolving indeterminate group tags: i.e. "Group 1" and "Group 2" are both selected; Group 1 has items "A" and "B" checked, Group 2 has checks for items "A" and "C", but excludes item "B".  What should the title window display?

I suspect we would want the 'Mark Include' resolution for this case:  I think the logical syntax would be:

For Group 1 - (A OR B)
and Group 2 - ((A OR C) NOT B)

If both groups selected:
(A OR B) OR ((A OR C) NOT B)

The effect being that selecting group 2 adds "C"'s titles and has zero effect on B's