A filter in SharePoint usually refers to a mechanism that limits the items displayed by the criteria provided.

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Show folders in document library that have a filter view

I am using SharePoint 2010 I have a document library with a view that Filter items only when a particular Column is true. The problem now is that when I have a filter in my view the folders in my ...
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Paging and sorting with BCS

I going to use the new exciting External Content Type feature to display a list of data from an external LOB system. The list is potentially long, so paging with filtering at the LOB system side is ...
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Only show Sorting option not filtering opetion in contex menu of header in ListViewByQuery

I have creatd ListViewByQuery control through coding and added the control through RencerControl Event. I am filtering the list in code. so filtered result is shown. I want to hide filter context ...
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How can I filter a view using a blank multi-line field?

I have a multi-line text field and need to be able to show a view with only items where that field is blank (or functionally blank to a human looking at it). I've tried: field contains "" field ...
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Can I Filter a List/Data View using Contains instead of equals in SP2010?

I have a page where I am using a Text Filter to filter a long (15K) list of clients in a Business Data List web part. The filter works fine for All and for an entered name, so long as the full name is ...
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Sharepoint 2010, Document Library, Key Filter - “Modified” field filtering is out by one day

We have a Sharepoint 2010 farm across 4 servers and added "modfied" as a Key Filter for metadata navigation. When I select to filter on a specific day I enter a date the filtered results are out by ...
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How to make a filtered lookup field

I have a list of departments. This list will change over time adding new departments and "deactivating" others (because of structural changes). I would like to use this list as a look-up for other ...
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Dynamically setting Default Value in ParameterBinding through Javascript

To make a long story short (too late), we have a dropdownlist that is populated through a list of items. We want to use this dropdownlist to filter the list in a data view web part. This works ...
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How to limit a Data View Web Part to 1 Item Per (Most Recent)?

I have a DVWP that I need to set up a complex filter on. It WAS all set - grouped by category field, sorted by item title, then filtered on 2 other fields (year & quarter). Then I was given ...
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List Filter Webpart not loading default value from custom filter provider

I have a request from a client to filter the data in a list view webpart based off of some user controlled custom settings for our sharepoint applilcation. These user settings are stored in a ...
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Consumer+provider web part connections: output is asked before input

I created a simple web part that has both a consumer and a provider connection. The provided output depends on the consumed input (so this is a sort of pipeline approach). I managed to implement the ...
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Filtering a list with date ranges - xslt / advanced expressions on list filters possible?

I've got a Sharepoint 2010 list that I'd like to filter with date-ranges. I'm doing something like if END_DATE > [NOW - 1Week] and END_DATE < [NOW + 1Week] or PLAN_END > [NOW -1Week] and ...
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Why are documents inside a folder not showing when a filter is applied?

I added a custom column called Project (string) to a Document List. I then set different views in different pages to filter on that column. The problem is that, when applying the filter, documents ...
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Library view with subtree taxonomy filter

Let's say I have a following taxonomy tree: World |--Germany |    |-Frankfurt |    |-Berlin |--France      |-Paris ...
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Creating a view in SharePoint 2010

I have a ticketlist which has ticket_id for 2 different locations, tickd1,tickd2,tickd3,tickd4 for Dallas ticka1,ticka2,ticka3,ticka4 for Atlanta Now I am trying to create 2 views, one for ...
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Use Term Store as a Filter Webpart

I have a couple of libraries that share a term store field for Clients. I put two list views on a page and planned on using the term store navigator to filter the lists, but couldn't find it in the ...
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Filter People and Group column using [Me]

Our list has a people and group column (called Users) which we want to filter using [Me]. It works when the field only contains individual users, but when the field contains a group (either SP group ...
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Is it possible to filter a BCS list using a site's name?

I'm running SharePoint Foundation and copying a site template per project. I would like to filter the BCS list in my template using the site name. Is there a possible method?
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Filter Webpart to match any column

I have a list of products with hundreds of entries. Each product has contact details with it as well as company information etc. I would like to be able to run a search on this list and return ...
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Filter items with groups per user

I have a list of items where a field is a group of users. Is it possible to filter the list to that the person viewing the page will only see the items where he is a member of the users listed in the ...
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How do I show a view of documents for the current user's department?

My first sharepoint task ever is to create a demo document management site, i need to define a way of departmentalising documents added to the store, then when a user logs in they only see documents ...
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How to filter a list on SharePoint

I am using SharePiont Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and I am using publishing portal template. I am developing using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5. I have defined a custom ...
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Creating a custom Filter Webpart in SandBox? How-To?

Since a little while now I've been trying to create a custom filter webpart in Sandbox. So far, it seems that all the usual ways to create a custom filter webpart programatically ina farm solution are ...
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Disable filtering option on the list after the webpart page has loaded loaded completly

I am filtering a list by passing query string to a custom list http://TestSite/TestSubsite/Lists/TestList/allitems.aspx?FilterField1=FirstName &FilterValue1=Apelles This does the job of ...
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Pass list item metadata to filter for document library

looking for a way to filter a document library based on metadata from an item in a different library. For example I would have two web parts on a page , selecting on in item in library one would ...
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Creating a view filter

I have a litle issue to create a view. Let me summarize the case. There is a list with all the daily tasks, assigned to someone. I would like to create a view that shows one the assigned task to ...
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Web part filtering

For our web site we would like to be able to have a combo box which the end user selects a “Province/State” from the drop down menu. Depending on which “Province/State” he selects, some web parts will ...
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List View Filtering on Managed Metadata Fields issue

I’ve got some issue where I think I need your help Our client asked for change in list view filtering to not show all terms from taxonomy in managed metadata, but only these from documents in ...
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Filter current user by two values

Is there any way to set the filter for a web part to be seen by two people? for example, in my infopath form, i have a traveler from the active directory, and the creator of the form, who are not ...
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Single Quote Issue While Filtering Records In SpGridview

In SpGridview single quote is breaking the filter expression as we are having filter format as "{1} like '{0}'",any idea how we can handle this situation.
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DVWP ASP.NET Filter for all pages

I have created a drop down along with DVWP as described in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/949d4443-58a4-464b-9603-e4c280740650. However I see one ...
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SP2010: Strange Content Query Web Part Behavior - Inconsistent results between users

I'm experiencing some very strange behavior with a content query web part. The web part uses no customised XSL, and is a simple query of "All sites in this site collection, from a Document Library, ...
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Filtering a XsltListViewWebPart that has "Send Row of Data To“ connection doesn’t work?

Filtering of a XsltListViewWebPart is absolutely no problem when you change the webPart.XmlDefinition property like this: var xml = new XmlDocument(); ...
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Business Data Connector List Column not working BDC XML Definition

I have a BDC connected to a SQL Table with 2500 Rows. I'm able to add a Business Data List WP to a page and point it to the BDC source and it look fine except for limited number of Rows. However, if I ...
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Create a web part to display filtered list item

I've got a Contact list with info about departments in our organization. The list is at the department level, not person level. It has the following columns: Department Title ["Contact Helpdesk:", ...
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How to get value of List Filter web part in Javascript?

I use the SharePoint List Filter web part on a page to control several Data View Web Parts. How do I read the current value of the List Filter in Javascript?
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How can create a view to filter the a list based on the current login user

How to create a view based on the current user is in a Person or Group field , this Person or Group field can contain multiple user but not SharePoint Group ,I try to use the contains to filter the ...
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Filter a list view using URL parameters

I would like to dynamically construct a couple of URLs for our SharePoint users to filter down a rather large list view we have. Rather than create a bunch of different custom views, I was wondering ...
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Filtering data programmatically on SPView

I would like to know how can I filter information in SharePoint list (Library of documents) programmatically. I have tried 2 ways but they don't solve my problem: Using the string ...
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Filtering Lists with A and ( B or C)

Filter = A and ( B or C ) For a sharepoint list, how does one get the above behavior? For example, the default behavior would be Filter = A and B or C Specifically, the desiresed filter is ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Add filter to a list with PowerShell

How it is possible to add a filter to a list with PowerShell? (I want to add a filter to multiple lists) Is there any tutorial, articel or example?
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Autocomplete filter using Sharepoint PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer

I am using Sharepoint 2010 with PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer. I am creating a dashboard that has a filter at the top of the page. The filter contains a very long list of items and I was wonder ...
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What is correct syntax for filtering a list on field values?

Salvete! I want to filter a list like this. Now, [othercolumn] is supposed to be the value of the field in the X-Field column. I want to see if the X-field column contains the text given in the ...
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How to filter a list by appended change date range of a specific column

What is the best solution to create a view having a filter on a column that has multiple change date? For example I want this to list items that have some modification on previous week
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Querying a simple list with a 'User' column, using CAML

I'm having some trouble getting a CAML Query working against a very simple list. My custom list has the fields: Person : User Date : Date Amount : Lookup My query looks like this: <Query> ...
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Can I enter a value string as one condition of a view's filter?

For example, could I, in one rule, filter a view based on "Show the items when column x contains a, b, or c?
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How to format the spgridview filter data?

I have a SPGridView where I am binding a calculation field. I am dynamically binding data to sp grid view in a web part. The filter value is displaying like String;#filterexp1, String;#filterexp3, ...
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Best approach to implementing a forced filter on a site?

I'm relatively new to SharePoint development so please excuse the question if it is an obvious one. Environment I have a site hierarchy that looks like this Client Dashboard Client sites (one or ...
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Filtering for recurring events happening [Today]

Is this possible? Ryan Wheeler says its not here. Tim says it is if your view is of type "Standard View, with expanded recurring events" here. I haven't been able to get Tim's suggestion to work. ...
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Sharepoint View Filter (how to check for nulls in Scheduling Start/End Date)

I am trying to use the built in sharepoint U.I to setup a filter for Scheduling Start Date & Scheduling End Date. However I noticed that if you setup something with a "Scheduling Start Date" as ...

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