How Expedition Filters Work?

alestevez — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:11:40 GMT

In Expedition, there are many different ways to setup a filter. Let's start from the beginning.

Case A) Project Dashboard:

Project Dashboard

When you click on one of the counters from the PROJECT STATISTICS Expedition will set a filter and will jump into the object selected. If you click on services Duplicated counter this is the filter will take action plus you will be transported to the Services view

Filter Window

Case B) Predefined Filters

From any objects view when we press right-click an advanced menu will be shown, one of the options its called predefined filters, just open the list and select the one you want to automatically create and apply the filter.

Right-click over one service

Each type of object can have their own predefined filters but usually they are common between them

Case C) Custom Filters

Click on Filters from the Objects or Policies view to get access to the Filter assistant

Access to Filter Assistant

A new window will show up. From here we can create our custom filter

Scope: Where this filter will apply, The more number of objects you add to the scope will reduce the amount of fields common between them to be able to search by, like if you select as scope address and addressgroups you can search only by name, tag and description because those are the fields in common, if you only select address all the fields related to address can be used to search like ipaddress, cidr, etc...
Field: the field we want use to filter
Operator: It can be equal, or contains, etc
What to search: Text we want to search on the selected field.
to CREATE the filter click on the plus button

Creating custom filter

To Apply the new filter we have to select the filter from AVAILABLE and DROP into ACTIVE folder
Click on APPLY FILTER

Edit Custom Filter

From the Objects and Policies views, you can see if there is any Active filter and Clear them all

Remember when creating a custom filter, first add to the available filters and then drop it into the ACTIVE to apply the filter.

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