Filter Options
How to use the ‘Filter Option’ section in tasks?
The ‘Filter Options’ section in tasks can be used to modify features of the output table. Filtering can be applied to one or multiple columns. This section is present is many tasks like find, find-replace, and label.
- Select Logic Operator
Use this dropdown menu to select logic operators ‘IF’ and ‘IF NOT’.
- Select Column
Use this dropdown menu to select the column which has the data entries you would like to filter.
- Select Operator
Use this dropdown menu to select from a list of operators like ‘Equal’, ‘Contains’, ‘Greater Than’, ‘Starts With’, and others. This list also includes complex operators like ‘RexEx Match’ and ‘In Table’.
Note: RegEx Match (also called Regular Expression Match) can be used to search for complex strings. For example, a RegEx search for ‘[A-Z]\w+’ will search for all words that start with capital letters A to Z. ‘Andreas’ and ‘Ralf’ would meet this criterion. You can develop and test such expressions using sites like https://regex101.com/
- Select Case Sensitive
Use this dropdown menu to define if the filter criterion should or should not be case sensitive. This field shows up only if entries like ‘Equal’ or ‘Greater Than’ are selected in ‘Select Operator’.
- Input Value
Use this field to type in the input value. This field shows up only if entries like ‘Equal’ or ‘Greater Than’ are selected in ‘Select Operator’.
- Apply to Record
Use this checkbox to apply the filtered results to all entries in the table or entries in specified columns.
If you select to apply the filtered results to only specified columns, the output table will have all entries that are related to filtered results in the specified columns.
