Filter Settings

This topic applies to the Admin Console > General > Filter Settings.

Introduction

The Filter Settings provide control over what filter options are exposed to users and how the dropdowns within filters behave.

Settings

Show Group (Min/Max) Filters

Enables/Disables the Min/Max Filter menu. Set to False to disable users from using Min/Max filters.

Allow New Filters at Execution

Controls the creation of new filters when a user is prompted for a filter value at the time of report execution. Set to False to disable new filters from being created at execution.

Read Database for Filter Values

Enables/Disables filter dropdowns to contain values from the filter field’s data object.

Set to False only if retrieving the values for the dropdown will take more than a few seconds.

Allow Filter Dependencies

Causes filter drop downs to retrieve values dependent on the filters above them in the menu. Set to True to enable. Default value is False.

For a full description of how this feature works, see Filter Dependency.

This setting only works for Data Objects from databases and will not change drop downs from Web Services, .NET Assemblies and stored procedures.

Show Filter Description

Enables/Disables reports to have description text for the filters menu. The filter description is set in the Description tab of the New Report Wizard, the Description item on the Report Designer’s Settings menu or the Report Designer's Save dialog.

A Helpicon appears in the Filters dialog. Clicking this icon displays the filter description.

Default Filter Execution Window

Determines the default type of window that appears when prompting users for filter execution input:

• Standard — New reports display the standard filter execution window, allowing filters to be modified and new filters to be created.
• Simple with Operator — New reports display a simplified filter execution window that only allows the operator and value to be changed.
• Simple without Operator — New reports display a simplified filter window that only allows the value to be changed.
• Custom — New reports use a custom built filter execution window. When this option is chosen, Allow User to Change Filter Window should be set to False and a value be provided for Custom Filter Execution Window. This is a deprecated feature and should not be used in new installations.

Allow User to Change Filter Window

Enables/Disables reports to change the type of filter execution window that is displayed.

Include Null Values for ‘NOT’ Filters

Indicates to include NULL values for filters with using the operators ‘not equal’ or ‘not one of’.

Custom Filter Execution Window

Specifies a control or URL that contains Custom Filter Execution Window. This is a deprecated feature and should not be used in new installations.