One of the main strengths of TIBCO Spotfire is the ability it gives you to filter your data, hence, to control what data shall be visible and used in some calculations. This means that you can show/hide data for specific categories, change the time range to look at, step through a sequence of values one at a time, etc.
You have the possibility to add your own filtering schemes, which can be applied to the analysis per page or per visualization. This gives you the complete freedom to control which pages and visualizations will affect each other. You can set up the filtering schemes to work on any combination of visualizations and/or pages in your analysis. For example, you can keep all the visualizations on all the pages related by using the same filtering scheme for all of them, or, you can choose to specify different filtering schemes for all the visualizations in an analysis, or any combination in between these two extremes. See Limiting What is Shown in Visualizations to learn how to set up a visualization to use a different filtering scheme than the filtering scheme used on the page.
The filter type is a part of the filter settings in a filtering scheme. This and other filter settings are controlled via the Filtering Scheme Properties. It is reached via the right-click menu in the filters panel. The selection of which filters are visible on a page is, in contrast, specified per page, via the Organize Filters option on the right-click menu.
To create a new filtering scheme:
Select Edit > Document Properties.
Go to the Filtering Schemes tab.
Click New....
Type a name and click OK.
To change the filtering scheme to use on a page:
Make sure that the filtering scheme menu is visible at the top of the filters panel.
Comment: If the filtering scheme menu has been hidden, it can be shown by selecting Edit > Document Properties > Filtering Schemes tab and the check box Show filtering scheme menu in Filters panel.
Click on the filtering scheme menu.
Select the desired filtering scheme.
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