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When using a dimension as a filter, dimension-specific options are available in the Display and Entry style sections. These options let you define various settings, such as filter caching, custom descriptions and list length (if using an In List operator). Some of these options therefore differ from the ones available when using a metric or a date. See the tables below for descriptions of both the Display section and the Entry style section.


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Description

Description

Define the title of the filter.

Filter Requirement

There are two available options:

  • Allow Omit allows the user to leave this filter blank.
  • Mandatory forces the user to provide a value for this filter in order to run the report.

Filter Hierarchy

Create a hierarchy of filters (eg, filter by region, then by country). To use this option, the parent filter must be set to a selection field (this can be done in the Entry Style section of this dialog box, where Value Entry Method should be set to Value List Selection.

Click on the Specify Parent Filter link to display the Set Parent dialog box, where you can select the parent filter. You can also set two display options:

  • Dependent Values displays only the values related to one parent (eg, only display European countries when the parent filter for region is set to Europe). 
  • Dependent Display hides the current filter from the user until the parent filter value has been selected (eg, display the country filter only when a region has been selected).

Remember User Selection

Remember values applied to this filter for future use.

List Size

Set the number of values displayed in the list before scrolling is required. If a list contains fewer values than this number, the list size will shrink to fit accordingly.


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