About filters

A filter is a set of criteria used to dynamically select measures for sections and home page alerts. After you create a filter, you can use it in a section or a home page alert. For example, to use a filter to build a book section, create a filter that pulls measures of interest to you into a section, such as measures that you own that are performing poorly. Then, create a section based on the filter. A home page alert is a section that you add to the home page.

Table 4‑1 shows the conditions you can filter by. All these options work in combination, except index value and index range. You can define, for example, measures owned by an individual which demonstrate specific performance criteria.

Table 4‑1 Filter options
Filter option	Filter conditions
Critical measures	Filter by measures defined as critical.
Filter by index range	Filter by measures that are within a specific index range.
Filter by index value	Filter by measures greater or lesser than a specific index value.
Gray measures	Filter by measures that have missing data.
Locations	Filter by specific locations that you choose, or locations in specific categories.
Missing commentary or missing data	Filter by measures that are missing commentary or data.
Measures	Filter by specific measures that you choose, or measures in specific categories.
Measure type	Filter by group measures, formula measures, or data measures.
Period types	Filter by specific period types that you choose.
Users	Filter by specific owners, owner assistants, data entry users, or commentary entry users that you choose.