I'm adressing two commonly-asked questions here, so that other users can find those answers easier until we update our GUIs and docs to reflect those fairly popular use-cases.
Filtering for Birthdays:
"If I fill nothing in the filter field you can see a user with birthday 27-2. If I choose 27-2-2010 there is no result. Maybe it has something to do with the date format. Do you have any suggestion?"
Answer:
Well if you don't enter *any* date, then by default it should just simply show *all* people / birthdays.
If it doesn't show the birthday you entered, have you CHECKED the "Ignore year when filtering by date-time range properties (such as hire-date or birthday)" option in the PeopleZen Web Part settings toolpane (under Filtering)?
If this doesn't work, indeed you can try the Date Filter date formatting settings.
Is it possible to filter: Office is not empty?
It is. In the FilterZen Web Part settings tool pane, scroll down to the Advanced section and tick the "CAML Filter mode" checkbox option. Then go back into the settings of your Office filter, expand its Advanced Filter Properties section, scroll down to the filter operator drop-down list and change from equals to not equals. Make sure the default filter value itself is empty, and also tick the Send filter value even if empty checkbox option.
Otherwise can I use 2 filter values?
Yes, there are two ways you can do this. Again, you need to enable the CAML Filtering mode first, just like in the above question.
The first approach is to simply set up two filters with the same name.
The second approach for this is to specify both values as one value of one single filter (instead of two filters with the same name) separated by a delimiter character of your choice, for example a comma (,) --- then in the Advanced Filter Properties section of this filter, scroll down a bit and enter this delimiter character in the text box labelled "send multiple values for the specified filter name taken from the resulting filter name-value pair(s), separating the value(s) with:".
I'm adressing two commonly-asked questions here, so that other users can find those answers easier until we update our GUIs and docs to reflect those fairly popular use-cases.
Filtering for Birthdays:
"If I fill nothing in the filter field you can see a user with birthday 27-2. If I choose 27-2-2010 there is no result. Maybe it has something to do with the date format. Do you have any suggestion?"
Answer:
Well if you don't enter *any* date, then by default it should just simply show *all* people / birthdays.
If it doesn't show the birthday you entered, have you CHECKED the "Ignore year when filtering by date-time range properties (such as hire-date or birthday)" option in the PeopleZen Web Part settings toolpane (under Filtering)?
If this doesn't work, indeed you can try the Date Filter date formatting settings.
Is it possible to filter: Office is not empty?
It is. In the FilterZen Web Part settings tool pane, scroll down to the Advanced section and tick the "CAML Filter mode" checkbox option. Then go back into the settings of your Office filter, expand its Advanced Filter Properties section, scroll down to the filter operator drop-down list and change from equals to not equals. Make sure the default filter value itself is empty, and also tick the Send filter value even if empty checkbox option.
Otherwise can I use 2 filter values?
Yes, there are two ways you can do this. Again, you need to enable the CAML Filtering mode first, just like in the above question.
The first approach is to simply set up two filters with the same name.
The second approach for this is to specify both values as one value of one single filter (instead of two filters with the same name) separated by a delimiter character of your choice, for example a comma (,) --- then in the Advanced Filter Properties section of this filter, scroll down a bit and enter this delimiter character in the text box labelled "send multiple values for the specified filter name taken from the resulting filter name-value pair(s), separating the value(s) with:".