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Comment: DEV-4318 Updated Ignore case explanation

Overview

Use filters to display a sub-set of data in a chart. When you create or edit a filter, PhixFlow displays a window where you can specify a set of clauses. Each clause contains a number of conditions.

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You can name and save filters for future use, or use them temporarily. 

For information about other settings, see Form Descriptions.

Filter Window

Toolbar

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     Apply the filter without saving it.
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     Save without closing.
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     Save and close.

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FieldDescription
NameThe name of the filter.
Stream NameThe name of the stream to which the filter applies.
Private

Available to users with the Create Public Filters privilege.

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 The  to make the filter is available only available to the user who created it. If this field is not visible to you, the filter is automatically private.

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The to make the filter is only available to other PhixFlow users.

Protect during import

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 The filter is not updated  to prevent the filter being updated or deleted during import.

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 The  to allow the filter may to be updated or deleted during import.

Access Permissions
Available to users with the Create Public Filters privilege, when the Private check box is not ticked.
All Users Can View Filter

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 All  to make the filter visible to all users with permission to view filters can use this filter.

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 Specify the  to specify User Groups that can use this filter.

User Groups

Available when  All Users Can View Filter is not ticked.

Select the user groups who will be able to view this filter.

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Build a filter by adding conditions and clauses.

FieldDescription

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Add a clause to the filter. Hover over the editor to the right of a condition to see this button.

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Delete the selected clause or condition from the filter. Hover over the editor to the right of a condition or clause to see this button.

The Indicates the value entered is a literal value. Click this icon to change this, if you want to use switch the value as an expression.

The Indicates the value entered is an expression. Click this icon to change this, if you want to enter switch the value to a literal value.

Ignore CaseThe condition matches values ignoring case e.g. "abc" would match

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so that, for PhixFlow instances running on Oracle or MariaDB (MySQL), the condition only matches strings that have the same capitalisation (case-sensitive).

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  so that the condition matches strings that have any capitalisation (case-insensitive). For example "abc" matches "abc", "Abc", "ABC", etc.

The default setting is defined on the underlying Stream Attribute

 For case-insensitive filters, there is no difference if the attribute is also indexed. 

Whether or not the check box is ticked by default depends on the underlying stream attribute property tab → Advanced section → Filter conditions are case-independent by default.

Note
This option affects the behaviour of filters for PhixFlow instances running on Oracle or MariaDB (MySQL) databases.
For PhixFlow instances running on a SQLServer database, filters are always case-independent.


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Display the filter picker. Click this icon to display a list of possible values to filter by. See Using Filter Pickers1261699659, below.

Description

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Tab

Optionally, enter a description to explain the purpose of this filter.

Some Filter Examples

Create prompt filter

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Tip

There are some scenarios where  PhixFlow cannot generate the list of values for a filter picker list.

  • pivot views
  • where the underlying stream data is aggregated.

In these cases, PhixFlow automatically hides the icon 

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See Also

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