You should now be comfortable with Spotfire's dynamic and interactive marking and filtering functionality, which allows you to mark and filter items of interest and look for relationships, signals, and trends in your analysis on the fly. What if you want to create more long-lasting selections or share your findings with others? Lists and Tags can help you to capture detailed analysis scenarios.
Lists provide a mechanism for saving marking selections that persist from session to session in any analysis file you open or create. You can mark some points in your visualizations, save the markings to a list, and then recall the marking in a future session at the click of a button. You can maintain multiple lists and you can add new marking selections to your lists. Obviously, if you try to use a list created for one data table on a completely different table, nothing will happen: you can't mark an apple variety in a table of orange varieties.
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