Geometry Spreadsheet select points from sheet to scene?

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Hi!
The Geometry Spreadsheet manual page says:
“Geo Select Button

For both SOP and POP viewing, a Geo-Selection button is provided. Clicking the right mouse ( RMB) brings up a menu where the Selection Rule can be specified (just like the Selection Rules in the regular viewers' Select state). This menu also includes a checkbox labeled Auto. To use it, select regions in the spreadsheet the usual way (dragging the mouse to create a rectangular region). Only the rows are relevant to the geometry selection because they represent the points/primitives. If Auto is enabled, the geometry selection will be transferred immediately after you release the mouse button for the rectangular region. (The points/primitives are added/removed/toggled/replaced depending on the Selection Rule). If Auto is not enabled, you have to press the Geo Selection button with the left mouse ( LMB) button to apply the selection.”

There are buttons to choose to show different elements (points/vertices/primitives/details) but no button for selection rule
and right-click menu gives totally different list of options (jump up/jump down…)

So how that is meant to work?

What I really am looking for is way to select elements (e.g. points) in SPREADSHEET and get them selected in the viewport as well. So far I have not managed to do that so I must be doing something wrong.

Please help

Thank you!

Antti
Edited by atnreg - Jan. 11, 2020 08:15:26

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See that little button next to the question mark, in your posted image? Click and hold that until a menu appears. Move to the bottom of the menu and activate “Auto” This will link your selection automatically between the spreadsheet and the viewport.
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Oh, indeed! I got misled by the tooltip ‘replace’ and icon of that button so that was the only place I didn't try to right-click

Thank you very much!

Antti
Edited by atnreg - Jan. 11, 2020 10:45:26
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990 (32-core),64GB RAM,NVIDIA RTX 3090,Win10
UE5.1,Houdini 19.5 Indie(always latest daily),Blender,Clarisse,Onyx,ZBrush...
Clarisse 2016-09, Houdini 2018-05 (seriously 2019-10)
I do all 3D for fun, no business
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