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+{{ transformations:SandboxAction.png}}
+====== SANDBOX======
+Category: Create / Input
+=====Description=====
+This action creates a temporary table that is typically used for one-time calculations. Sandboxes can be populated with result data of any action, or pasted from the clipboard.
+Data in sandboxes survives reloads - contents don't change on partial or full reloads - although it doesn't survive re-opening the project. When a project is opened all of its sandboxes start empty.\\
+\\
+=====Populating a Sandbox with data=====
+^Option^Description^
+|Paste data|This option will paste data that has been copied to the clipboard.  Options for //headers//, //delimiters//, and //decimal//\\ provide fine-tuning of the pasted data.|
+|Import dataset|This option allows for browsing to and selecting an external dataset (.dset file) to populate the Sandbox with.|
+\\
+=====Creating and Populating a Sandbox from another action=====
+By right-clicking an action that generates output data and selecting //Send to sandbox/module// > //New sandbox//, you create a new sandbox populated with the data from the source action.  Selecting //New sandbox in new group// creates a new group and inserts a new sandbox action populated with the data from the source action.
+\\
+=====Use cases=====
+Besides ad hoc calculations, sandboxes can be used in a few more cases:
+  * Together with [[transformations:either|Either table]] transformation Sandbox can be used to safely insert an arbitrary dataset into any point of a transformation chain, which can be useful for debugging and development purposes. In this scenario insert [[transformations:either|Either table]] and point its second input to a table created using Sandbox transformation.
+  * Sandboxes can be used to create an empty table as a starting point for further transformations. Some transformations (e.g. [[transformations:runprogram|Run external program]] might not need an input dataset, but they don't create a table. In this case a generic empty table can be created using Sandbox, and then [[transformations:runprogram|Run external program]] can be inserted after it.
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+=====See also=====
+  * [[http://http://easymorph.com/learn/data-analysis.html| Tutorial: Data analysis]]
+  * [[transformations:either|Either table]]