What is filter query?
Filters you apply to the query definition are called query filters. You use query filters to reduce the amount of data retrieved from the data source. Query filters decrease the time it takes to run the report and ensure that only the data relevant to the report users is saved with the document.
How do you save a filter?
How to Save a Filter
- After creating your filter, click Save As. The Save As dialog box opens.
- Browse to the folder in which you want to save the filter.
- In the Name text box, type the name of the filter.
- In the Description text box, type a short description for the filter.
- Click OK.
How do you Filter Records in a report?
A separate query, sometimes called a filter query, can refer to the controls on your dialog box to get its criteria. Using this approach, you filter the records in a form or report by setting the filtername argument of the OpenForm or OpenReport method or action to the name of the filter query you create.
How to filter a report using query string parameters?
One way to filter it is to start with the default URL for the report, add the filter parameters to the URL, and then email them the entire new URL. This article uses the Retail Analysis Sample report. If you want to follow along, you can download the sample report. Say you’re working in Power BI Desktop.
How to share a filtered version of a report?
This article explains how to filter a report and share the filtered version of the report. Another way to share a filtered report is to add query parameters to the report URL. In both cases, the report is filtered when recipients first open it. They can clear the filter selections in the report.
Can you use a query as a filter?
Using a query as a filter to set the criteria has advantages similar to using the wherecondition argument of the OpenForm or OpenReport method. A filter query gives you the same flexibility of using more than one dialog box to open the same form or report and applying different sets of criteria depending on what a user wants to do.