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  1. On the Edit View Dialog, select Advanced to display the Advanced View Properties Dialog.

  2. Select the Filter Tab.

  3. For a new filter, type a name. Select Default if you want this filter to be the default for the item type that you selected on the Edit View Dialog.

  4. Select Browse if you want to search for a filter or create a new filter (either simple or compound) using the Select Filter dialog.

  5. To further define a filter, populate the Definition box with properties and values.

  6. Select a property, operator, and value in the Edit group. The Property list displays properties that apply to your item type; the Operator list displays all the possible relationships, such as greater than and not equal to; the Value list displays the specific properties that you can filter for.

  7. You can select Add to add another line to the Definition box, if necessary. To add more entries, repeat steps 4 and 5.

  8. Select Delete if you want to delete the current row in the Definition box.

  9. Select either Match all or Match any.

  10. Select OK on the Advanced View Properties Dialog and again on the Edit View Dialog so that the software can populate your table.

After you have defined a specific filter for your Engineering Data Editor, you can save that definition. See Save an Engineering Data Editor View).

  • If you are using a Workshare environment and you are at a satellite site, Project Filters should not be created at a satellite site because when you synchronize reference data, you lose that information. However, you can always create My Filters in the Filter Manager environment.

  • The filter settings override any existing filter selected using the settings on the EDE toolbar. Furthermore, the filter settings are lost when you close the drawing or select a different item type in the Engineering Data Editor.