Virtual Collections

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Virtual Collections are really pre-defined searches, and don't actually hold any data of their own.  For example, the "Today" collection is a query that searches for clips captured today.  The "Bitmaps" collection is a query that searches for all clips containing Bitmaps.

ClipMate 7 ships with several pre-defined virtual collections. You can make your own, if you understand SQL.  Create the new collection under "Virtual", and set the properties so that it's a virtual collection.  Then enter some SQL. You can use the others as examples.  If you delete all of the virtual collections, they will be re-built at startup.

There are several special-case virtual collections:

•Macros - locate all clips that are flagged as having keyboard macros.
•Since Last Import - all clips added/modified since last XML import.
•Since Last Export - all clips added/modified since last XML export.