The Holding Pen

The "holding pen" is a temporary list of animal Ids. When examining animal records, you may identify individuals that you want to study in more detail later. Rather than going straight to the animal record that animal ID can be added to the "holding pen". Animals can be allocated to the holding pen via the Animal list generator, as well as via many graphic displays and grids.

Once the holding pen contains animals, it is offered as a filter . Applying the filter, in the individual animal records for example, will limit the records displayed to only those animals you allocated to the holding pen (see How do I design and apply filters?).

Animals currently allocated to the holding pen are displayed in the Holding pen form which appears on top of the program.

An individual animal can be removed from the holding pen by clicking it with the right mouse button and selecting the appropriate command in the pop-up menu:

Note:  
  • Closing the Holding pen form to hide it from view does not clear the contents.
  • The holding pen is a temporary allocation which is lost when you leave the program.