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Filters are used in Yellowfin to restrict the data returned in a report to the exact data that a user is interested in (for example, restricting time periods to just return data for the last quarter, or restricting to a list of countries that a user has responsibility for). You can learn more about filters in general and how to create them on your Yellowfin content in the wiki.

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report.filters.getFilter('47fe96c2-5101-4b0d-9018-7d12a84d3519');

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Dashboard and Report objects will both contain the object filters. This object will contain any filters that have been set up as user prompt filters, these are filters that a user can change at run time. Any hardcoded filters on a report are not able to be accessed through the API.

The filter object can be accessed as followsIf that report and filter were then added to a dashboard, you would no longer be able to use the exact same code to access the dashboard filters. This is because it is possible for there to be multiple instances of the report and filter active on a dashboard together, so they are all referenced by their dashboard filter uuid.


null let filter = filters.get('Demographic');
console.log(filter.name, filter.uuid); //Output the name of the filter as well as its UUID
dashboard.filters.getFilter('47fe96c2-5101-4b0d-9018-7d12a84d3519'); //Will return null