--- title: "Managing Filters" slug: "managing-filters" updated: 2024-07-11T19:19:54Z published: 2024-07-11T19:19:54Z canonical: "docs.preset.io/managing-filters" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.preset.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Managing Filters ## Overview In this article we will look at some filter management features available in Preset. These topics include: - [How to Add a Filter and Divider](/v1/docs/managing-filters#how-to-add-a-filter-and-divider) - [How to Delete a Filter](/v1/docs/managing-filters#how-to-delete-a-filter) - [How to View Applied Filters (via chart icon)](/v1/docs/managing-filters#how-to-view-applied-filters-via-chart-icon) - [How to View Filter Configuration & Scoping](/v1/docs/managing-filters#how-to-view-filter-configuration-scoping) - [How to Clear All Filters](/v1/docs/managing-filters#how-to-clear-all-filters) - [Active Filter Highlight](/v1/docs/managing-filters#active-filter-highlight) - [Filter Out of Scope](/v1/docs/managing-filters#filter-out-of-scope) --- ## How to Add a Filter and Divider In the *Add and edit filters* window, select **+ Add filters and dividers** and then, in the sub-menu, select **Filter**. A new filter with the placeholder text "[untitled]" appears in the **Filters** panel. ![Preparation_Add_New_Filter](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Preparation_Add_New_Filter.png) A divider is a header text field, and an optional description, that can be used to introduce sets of filters or simply divide filters. --- ## How to Delete a Filter To delete a filter, in the Filters panel, select the trash bin icon for a filter. ![Delete_Filter2](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Delete_Filter2.png) After the bin icon is selected, Preset will ask if you'd like to restore the deletion (i.e., undo your action). If so, select **Restore Filter**; otherwise, the deletion will proceed accordingly. Alternatively, you can select **Undo?**. **Note**: The **Undo?** and **Restore Filter** options appear on a 5-second timer, after which the filter will be deleted. ![Delete_Filter2a](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Delete_Filter2a.png) --- ## How to View Applied Filters (via chart icon) To see which filters have been applied to a specific chart, you can select the filter icon on the chart itself. This is located on the top right of each chart and displays a number — this is the number of filters that have been applied to the chart. ![No_of_Filters_Icon](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/No_of_Filters_Icon.png) When you select this icon, a tooltip appears displaying the applied filters. In the graphic below, our two defined filters ('Game Genre' and 'Platform') were applied as well as a Time range filter, giving us a total of 3 applied filters. ![No_of_Filters_Icon1](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/No_of_Filters_Icon1.png) --- ## How to View Filter Configuration & Scoping To view information about a filter's configuration and scoping details, simply hover your cursor over a filter field. A pop-up appears displaying these details. ![New_View_Config_and_Scoping](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/New_View_Config_and_Scoping.png) --- ## How to Clear All Filters Clearing all filters removes your filter selections, but not the filters themselves. To clear all filters, on the dashboard, select **Clear All**. ![Clear_All_3](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Clear_All_3.png) After doing so, all selections made within the filters are removed. ![Clear_All_3a](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Clear_All_3a.png) Please note that this is different than permanently removing a filter. To do that, just select **+ Add/Edit Filters** to launch the *Add and edit filters* window, and then proceed with deleting a filter as described above. --- ## Active Filter Highlight In order to quickly correlate filters with charts and tabs, Preset automatically applies a blue border glow to charts & tabs that include data from a selected filter. As an example, we will look at this feature in the FCC New Coder Survey dashboard. There is one numerical range filter labelled as "Age". Here is the dashboard without a selected filter (i.e., cursor is not actively highlighting the Age numerical range flter) — note that there are no blue glowing borders. ![Blue_Highlight_Before2](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Blue_Highlight_Before2.png) ...and after we place the cursor over the range slider (or click within a value filter), you will notice that charts and tabs are highlighted with a glowing blue border: ![Blue_Highlight_Before2a](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Blue_Highlight_Before2a.png) --- ## Filter Out of Scope If all data from a filter is displayed on a tab other than the active tab, then that filter is considered out of scope and is displayed in the **Filters out of scope** expandable section. Let's return to our Video Game Sales dashboard. In the example below, we have three filters that have data featured in the **Overview** and **Explore Trends** tabs. To illustrate, we have created a third, empty tab called **Focus on US Games**. If we select the **Focus on US Games** tab, we can see that the **Filters out of scope** panel appears. Expanding this reveals the filters with data in the other non-active tabs. ![Out_of_Scope_2](https://cdn.document360.io/4749ddf8-aa05-4f3f-80e1-07a5d2d0f137/Images/Documentation/Out_of_Scope_2.png) In short, the **Filters out of scope** section is an indicator that filtered data exists in a different tab(s). --- ## Related Topics [Dashboard Filtering](/v1/docs/dashboard-filtering) [Filter Types](/v1/docs/filter-types) [Parent-child Filter](/v1/docs/hierarchal-filter) [Pre-filter Data](/v1/docs/pre-filter-data) [Sort Filter Values](/v1/docs/sort-filter-value) [Single Value Range](/v1/docs/single-value-range) [Filter Tooltip](/v1/docs/filter-tooltip) [Managing Values](/v1/docs/managing-values) [Scoping a Filter](/v1/docs/scoping-a-filter) [Cross-filtering](/v1/docs/cross-filtering) Managing Filters