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The Filter Settings provide control over what filter options are exposed to users and how the dropdowns within filters behave. This document covers several versions of the application. Use the Viewing content for dropdown to see only the content relevant to a specific application version.
Enables/Disables the Min/Max Filter menu. Set to False to disable users from using Min/Max filters.
Enables/Disables the Top/Bottom Filters menu in the ExpressView and Advanced Report designer. Top N filters allow users to see the highest or lowest values for a data set. Set to False to disable users from using Top N filters.
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.
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.
The Filters tab of the ExpressView Properties Pane with Read Database for Filter Values set to True
The Filters tab of the ExpressView Properties Pane with Read Database for Filter Values set to False. Note the lack of the filter dropdown arrow in the bottom figure.
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, review the Filter Dependency section of the Filters article.
Note
This setting only works for Data Objects from databases and will not change drop downs from Web Services, .NET Assemblies and stored procedures.
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 or from the Description item on the Report Designer’s Settings menu.
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Determines the default type of window that appears when prompting users for filter execution input:
Enables/Disables reports to change the type of filter execution window that is displayed.
Indicates to include NULL values for filters with using the operators ‘not equal’ or ‘not one of’.
Specifies a control or URL that contains Custom Filter Execution Window. This is a deprecated feature and should not be used in new installations.
Restores the default Filter Functions to the Extensions menu.
Restores the default Custom Functions to the Extensions menu.