Text Filter


The text filter lets you type a string of text, and any values that do not match the entered string are filtered out. As you type the string, the visualization is continuously updated with the values that begin with the current substring.

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For example, consider a column with all the months of the year, January, February, March, ... , December.

Typed in text filter

Filtered rows

j

January, June, July

ju

June, July

jun

June

june

June

Note: The example above is only applicable to in-memory data. If your data comes from an external data connection, you must add wildcards (*) to retrieve columns beginning with a letter or a number of letters, e.g., ju*.

For a listing of more search alternatives, see Searching in TIBCO Spotfire.

See also:

What is a Filter?

Grouping Filters

Filters Panel Properties