Advanced Filters View Filter Logic Graphical Display

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The Advanced Filter Logic Display feature provides a graphical display which allows you to quickly browse information about an Advanced Filter and the corresponding conditions The advanced filter logic displays enable convenient Advanced Filter-by-Advanced Filter navigation through the complete list of model filters. From the advanced filter logic display, you can find out an advanced filter name and Logical Comparison object, and conditions names that are part of the particular advanced filter. Moreover you can find out all information associated with the advanced filter by pressing right click with the mouse and directly invoking their associated information dialogs. The advantage of the advanced filter logic displays, is that they are auto-created logic diagrams.

Below this top panel sits the actual advanced filter display. The advanced filter you have chosen to inspect, is represented as the last advanced filter to the right of the display. When you drag the mouse over one of the neighboring advanced filters symbols, it turns into a pointing finger, then by clicking the left mouse button when the mouse cursor is in this shape redefines the target advanced filter to be the advanced filter whose symbol you just clicked. The advanced filter view display is redrawn to show the same sort of display for the newly chosen target. Right-clicking on the advanced filter view display’s background will generate the local menu.

The advanced filter background color can be red or green. Green means that the criteria is satisfied and the evaluation of the model filter is true. Red means that the evaluations is false. Repeated colors of the Advanced Filter Names and Conditions represent that the particular Advanced Filter or Condition is used more than once in the Advanced Filter Display.

The advanced filter view display can be generated using the following method:

• Pressing the "View Filter Logic" button in the Advanced Filter dialog.