Overview of Filters

To add a New Filter:

Click the link or button. This will open up the Account Selector view. To select the criteria for a filter click the Select a Field dropdown which will present all of the available fields from the uploaded data source in Absolute. 

For example, for a reclass using Account level detail from the GL, the user would select Account from the field dropdown. To select an account, click the box to the left of the account field, which will present a blue check mark meaning the account has been selected. 

To add the account to the filter select the button. This will populate the selected accounts into the Filter Rules field. 

There is also the option to  of the data listed in the selected field. 

To review the accounts that have been added to the Filter Rules, click on the button. This will give the user a preview of the filtered accounts prior to finalizing the filter.

The user can also click Turn Autoloading Off to hide the summary of filtered accounts. 

After the filter has been reviewed for accuracy, click the Finalize button on the bottom right corner of the Account Selector screen. 

Click the View Accounts button for a filter to view all the accounts selected by that filter.

Click the View/Edit Filter button for a filter to view or to make changes to that filter.

Click the "X" button on the righthand side of the filter to delete a filter that has already been created.

Click the button to reapply all filters and refresh the selected account pool. You may need to do this, for example, when copying from a previous report, or if you have changed a mapping after having already created a reclass.

It may be inconvenient to reload the selected accounts automatically depending on the size of the dataset and browser being used.