Using Filters

Filters limit the number of devices visible in a list or folder to only those exhibiting the characteristics you specify. Filters can have multiple criteria, allowing for increasingly narrow device selection. When you create a folder, you have the option to create a filter for that particular folder, or load a previously saved filter and apply it to the folder. A folder with no filter will contain all the devices of its parent folder.

There are two types of filters:

Basic: Choose one or more common device characteristics as filter criteria.

Advanced: Create multiple filter criteria, some of which require characteristics to be typed into the Value list box. For example, if you have a brand XYZ printer model (that is not in the list of available printer models) with Job Timeout set at 90 seconds, you could specify both:

Parameter	Operation	Value
Model:	Equal To	XYZ

Parameter	Operation	Value
Job Timeout:	Equal To	90

• In the above example, both the "90" and "XYZ" would be manually typed in to the Value list box.
• Click the New button to add additional filter criteria; click the red X to remove filter criteria.

Clicking the All conditions must be met radio button means that every device must meet every criterion to be displayed by the filter.

Clicking the At least one condition must be met radio button means that devices must meet only one condition to be displayed by the filter.

You can choose to have your filter include printers, print servers, or both. Specify this in the Device Type list box.

John is in charge of keeping the printers in his company up and running. He would like to know which ones presently need human intervention or will need attention very soon. To accomplish this, he creates a Basic filter.

1. Since John is only interested in printers, he selects Printer from the Device Type list box.
2. From the Select Filter Type list, he selects Status.
3. He then selects All Errors and All Warnings.
4. He then clicks Apply, and the filter is created.
5. To save the filter, he clicks the Save Filter As... button.

Once John applies the filter to a folder, that folder will only contain printers an error or warning state.

Mary would like to create and save a filter that that will only display Monochrome printers with firmware code level 1.10.17. To accomplish this, she creates an Advanced filter.

1. Since Mary is only interested in printers, she selects Printer from the Device Type list box.
2. She then selects the following:

   Parameter	Operation	Value
   Color	Equal To	Monochrome

3. She clicks New to create another filter criterion, and then selects the following from the Parameter and Operation list boxes. She must manually type in the firmware code (1.10.17).

   Parameter	Operation	Value
   Printer Firmware Code	Equal To	1.10.17

4. Since Mary's printers need to meet both conditions, she clicks the All conditions must be met radio button.
5. To save the filter, Mary clicks the Save Filter As... button.

Once Mary applies the filter to a folder, that folder will only contain monochrome printers with a firmware code equal to 1.10.17.

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