Create or Edit Subsets

This form can be launched by selecting Create New Subset or Edit Subset from the Subsets Menu.

A subset is a predefined selection of cards from an existing deck. For example, suppose you have a Rider Waite tarot deck in your My Decks list. Such a deck consists of 78 card images and other associated files. You can open the deck and use it with its 78 cards whenever you like. But now suppose that you sometimes like to do readings with just the major arcana from this deck. Before the introduction of subsets into the program in version 10.0 it would have been necessary to copy the major arcana files into a new folder and name it for example "Rider Waite Majors". This would be a needless duplication of files. Defining subsets allows you to work with different sets of cards from the same original deck, for example majors, minors, odds, evens or any other subset of cards that you wish to define.

To define a new subset you need to select the deck it is based on and the cards it is going to contain.

The browse button (...) lets you browse for a deck in your collection. If you are editing an existing subset the deck name will already be filled in for you. If the deck name is shown in red it means that the deck has been moved or deleted since the subset was created. In that case you will get an error message if you try to use the subset. You can fix the problem by browsing for a new deck.

This drop down lets you choose a Schema or naming convention to help select the cards you want. Note: You have to select a valid deck before the selected schema will show in the list of cards.

In this screen capture the Tarot schema has been selected. The subset consists of the Minor Arcana only so the Majors are not checked. Selecting any card in the list shows a preview image of the card on the right to aid in selection.

Tip: The Quick Selection drop down gives you short cut options for selecting a subset of the card names relevant to the selected schema.