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On the Edit View Dialog, select Advanced to display the Advanced View Properties Dialog.
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Select the Filter Tab.
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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.
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Select Browse if you want to search for a filter or create a new filter (either simple or compound) using the Select Filter dialog.
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To further define a filter, populate the Definition box with properties and values.
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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.
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You can select Add to add another line to the Definition box, if necessary. To add more entries, repeat steps 4 and 5.
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Select Delete if you want to delete the current row in the Definition box.
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Select either Match all or Match any.
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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).
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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.
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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.