# Filter

The Filter portlet allows for customized filter lists and buttons to apply towards other portlets. With this one can choose from a preconfigured list of values or manually typed in a value to send a filter request with the chosen criteria. 

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### Basic Data

**Internal name** - unique string to identify this portlet.\
**Portlet title** - title of the portlet, does not have to be unique.\
 

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### Filter configuration

#### **Group Headers**

* **Group name** - a value shown as display name of a group that contains column mappers.
* **Header visible** - if the display name is to be displayed or not.
* **Align group** - up or down arrow to realign in which order the groups are to be displayed.

#### **Column Mappers**

* **Display name** - The display name of the value field.
* **Filter parameter** - The column of the target portlet that the filter will be applied to.
* **Column size** - Width of the column list.
* **Group** - Which group the column mapper should be assigned to.
* **Lov** - A list of values (that can be set up in Options) to apply as filter value. Only works when Editor type is LOV.
* **Editor** - What kind of input one can type into the input box.
* **Length** - Only when using decimal in editor, specifies the amount of decimals that can be entered.
* **Multiline** - When using textinput and not Lov to filter, this enables the textwindow to have support for multiple lines.

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