Filter

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Filter

Use filters to display or work with a subset of data in a stream.

To add a filter to the data in a stream:

  1. In  the repository, expand the stream.

  2. Right-click on Filters and 

      a new filter.

To add a filter to a view of the data in a stream:

  1. In  the repository, expand the stream.

  2. Expand the data view.

  3. Right-click on Filters and 

      a new filter.

PhixFlow displays the filter properties.

You can also apply filters on the data directly in a dashboard or view; see Filters on Data Views.

Basic Settings

Field

Description

Field

Description

Name

The name of the filter.

Private

Available to users with the Create Public Filters privilege.

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

 Untick to make the filter available to other PhixFlow users.

Protect during import

 Tick to prevent the filter being updated or deleted during import. 
To prevent orphaned filters, when a parent stream is deleted by the import, its filters will also be deleted.

 Untick to allow the filter to be updated or deleted during import.

Filter Details

To create a filter, add conditions and clauses.

Field

Description

Condition

Select one of the options

  • Where ALL...

  • Where ANY...

To add more conditions, hover your mouse pointer over this field to display the 

 button.

Hover your mouse pointer over the Condition field to display this button.
Add another condition to your filter.

Clause

Select an option from the list. PhixFlow adds more fields where you can:

  • select how the filter matches (for example, equals, contains, is null)

  • enter a string that the filter uses to match the data. The string can be an expression or a literal string.

Hover your mouse pointer over a filter clause to display this button.
Delete the selected clause or condition from the filter. 

Indicates the value entered is a literal value. Click this icon to treat the value as an expression.

Indicates the value entered is an expression. Click this icon to treat the value to a literal string.

Ignore Case   

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

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

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.