Simple collections
CollectAny is a very flexible tool and can be used for many purposes and at different levels of complexity. These examples will help to get you started and understand the basics.
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The easiest way to use CollectAny is to create collections using the
one-click designer
. This lets you enter a description of what you want and the app takes care of the rest ! However we've also include templates and example files that you may wish to download and use.
Simple related collections
CollectAny files hold a 'CollectionSet'. This is a set of collections. For simple collections you might only have one collection and not have to think of this 'set. However a very powerful feature of CollectAny is to be able to relate one collection to another. This lets you 'drill down' from a record in one collection to some lower detail. i.e the collections are 'related'.
The relationships can be quite complex and CollectAny opens the door to many possibilities. Reporting can be powerful too as a result of relationships and can give great results.
These examples demonstrate simple relationships and what they can do.
Complex collections
These examples take CollectAny further and show how relationships can get more complex.
The more advances features include: Calculated values, Aggregating (summing) values up, Looking values up.