The statement "to select only certain sets" needs some clarifying: in MT we do not select sets, we create sets (or add/remove features to/from existing sets) by selecting features according to some criteria. And all criteria must be related to the characteristics of the feature, not of the set.
The criteria of whether the set a feature belongs to is visible, invisble, or hidden is not one you can use in the selection tools. ( The only execption being Select By Condition, which allows you to operate on those features that are located within the current map scope only ... but this is independent of whether the points are visible or hidden, it only depends of a characteristic of the feature: being or not within a certain scope). In order to do what you want, and assuming you want to select features form multiple sets according to one ore more criteria, one potential approach is to make temporary subsets using the criterias of your choice (for example, Select By Location) and then applying Combine Selection recurrently to get your final set. At any rate, if the combination of sets and criterias is more than just a handful, ( you may very well want to select features from one set based on more than one criteria, like selecting available properties for rent that are away from an industrial area and close enough to a metro station ... and so on) I strongly recommend writing some quick macros with GISDK to avoid painful processing. I hope this helps. Armando On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:40 PM, swag_ner_pth <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > > Hello, > > I have several sets created from one layer. What I would like to be able > to do is use the select by circle or area tool to select only certain sets. > So if I have two sets and one set is on (visible) and the other is off > (invisible or inactive) only the visible sets would be selected. > > I know how to use select by condition but it is faster, easier, and more > user friendly to use the area/circle tools. > > > -- Armando Scalise
