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When to use local filter and when to use global Filter?

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Last Update: February 01, 2008 Asked by: bhargav

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November 25, 2005 00:32:59

kancherla

Member Since: November 2005 Contribution: 3

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Fi...

think this should be in the Reporter Forum but, a local filter would apply to just a single block (table, cross tab or chart) within your report.

a global filter would apply to all blocks in your report, so if you had many tables the filter would apply to all of them

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November 25, 2005 08:54:42

Eswar

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Fi...

Local Filter is to single report to which it is create, but a global filter is to all the reports which consists of that column

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June 24, 2007 14:19:27

madhavi

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Fi...

A filter which applies to a one single block in the report is called local filter but a filter which applies to all blocks in the report ia called as global report filter.

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August 19, 2007 03:00:48

jgd.ramesh

Member Since: August 2007 Contribution: 11

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Fi...

Local filter can be affect only particular block only but global filter can be affect whole document.

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August 22, 2007 14:59:37

vasuk

Member Since: August 2007 Contribution: 2

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Fi...

A Report Filter hides the data which you are not interested to view in the
document. There are two types of Report Filters.

Block Report Filter: It applies to only one block in the Report. A Report
can contain any number of blocks.

Global Report Filter: It applies to all blocks in the Report.

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November 03, 2007 01:27:41

suj

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Fi...

From the above discussion, can i conclue like this,

If you don't want to view particular report, you can apply global filter to all the blocks of a report

please make me clear,

Regards,
suj

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November 16, 2007 00:25:50

kannan

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Fi...

It can be still stated as "if you want to hide only aÂ single block in the report, which consists of many you can go for the local filter if you want toÂ filter many blocks of a report you can go for the Global filter.

Thanks
SRK.

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December 19, 2007 21:49:08

ravi_kumar_garre

Member Since: November 2007 Contribution: 33

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Filter?

In BO Reporting we do have Data Providers for each block of output. One report can have multiple Data Providers. And even you can join common fields from different Data Providers.

Local filters are applicable to a specific Data Provider. Global Filters are applicable to all Data Providers in a given Report.

Cheers,
Ravi Kumar Garre

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January 23, 2008 05:18:33

Pers.L

Member Since: January 2008 Contribution: 8

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Filter?

In the report if you have more than one bock which having one common column and if you want to apply filter for all the blocks then go for global filters.

If you want to apply the filter for a particular block then go for local filter(or) block specific filter.

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February 01, 2008 14:05:35

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BPatel

Member Since: January 2008 Contribution: 10

RE: When to use local filter and when to use global Filter?

local filter applies only particular block (table, charts, crosstabs). global filter applies on set of blocks.

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