You can filter your list by any column using the Filter Bar. To open the
Filter Bar, choose from the menu or use the Filter button on the tool bar.
While the Filter Bar is present, all the filters in the Filter Bar are applied
to the list. If the Filter Bar is closed, no filters are applied and you'll see
the entire list.
To filter by a certain column, click in the Filter Bar above that column. For
Checkbox, Flag, Priority, Yes/No, 3 State and Date columns, you'll see a menu
where you can choose the value to filter by. Some of these menus will also have
a More Options selection that will display a window
where you can enter a value. For Category columns you'll see a drop down list
where you can choose the category value to filter by. For String and Numeric
columns a window will open where you can enter a value to filter by. Numeric and
Date columns also allow you to filter on column values related to the filter
value with a relational operator (equal to, not equal to, greater than, less
than, greater than or equal and less than or equal). On these columns, clicking
on the relational operator in the Filter Bar will show a menu of operators you
can choose from.
For example, if you click in the Filter Bar above the Checkbox column, a menu
will pop up where you can choose <Off>, Checked (or Yes) or Unchecked (or No). If you
choose Checked, only items with the Checkbox checked will be displayed.
As another example, if you click in the Filter Bar above that column
(which is a Numeric column), a window will display where you can enter a numeric
value and choose an operator. If you enter 50 as the value and greater than as the operator, only items with an
Amt column with a value greater than 50 will be displayed. If you then click on
the greater than sign in the Filter Bar,
you'll see a menu of operators and could choose a different one, such as greater than or equal.
When you have filters on multiple columns, an item must match all the filters in order to be displayed.
Note that when you filter a list, a parent item will be displayed if any of
its child items match the filter, even if the parent itself does not match.Therefore, you
may see items in a filtered list that do not themselves match the filter
criteria. These items will be displayed in gray text.
The special Checkbox and Flag filter functions ( and on
the menu) can be used whether the Filter Bar is
showing or not. Showing or Hiding the Filter Bar will not affect these
functions.
Once you have a filter value entered for a column, you can tap or click on
the filter bar to change it. You can also change the operator, for column types
that use it. With date and number filters, in particular, it's useful to be able
to quickly switch between an exact search ("is equal to") and, for example, "less than or equal to".
Filtering On Hidden
Items
If you turn the filter bar on (with -> , and you see the following situation:
- All the filter bar column headings are empty
- Some of your items still seem to be filtered out
You may have a filter in place, on a hidden
column. Remember that checking or unchecking a column's box in -> ,
doesn't delete the column -- it just hides it. And if you've applied a filter to
a column, then you hide it, that filter is still in place, still filtering out
items.
If you think this is happening, turn the filter bar off (with -> , and see if
your items are all being displayed. If so, you can do one of two things:
- Remove all filters with ->
- Go to -> and check unchecked columns until you identify the one with an
active filter
