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Create a New Category Set and Apply It to an Attribute

The easiest way to create a category set that applies to an attribute is to Create a Category Set from Existing Values. But often you want to create the category set first and then apply it to one or more attributes.

1. Show the collection inspector by double-clicking the collection or by selecting the collection or a case table and choosing Object | Inspect Collection.

2. Click Categories to go to that panel.

3. Click <new> and name the category set. (Press Enter or Return to create more than one.)

4. Click in the Categories cell for a set, and type the categories, in the order you want them to appear in graphs and such, separated by commas.

This creates the sets; now they need to be applied to attributes.

5. Go to the inspector's Cases panel.

6. Click Show Details. (If the button says Hide Details, then details are already showing; the button toggles between the two states.)

7. Select one or more attributes (Shift+click), and choose a set name from the Set pop-up menu.

Here, the set indicating level of interest is applied to four attributes.


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