Think about the out-of-box filtering and search capabilities of SharePoint: drilling down into a specific sub-range, whether in date-time terms ("show me data between March and August") or in numeric terms ("show me sales between 100 and 500"), if you don't want to Modify your List View everytime you want to see certain data sub-ranges, then neither the built-in Advanced Search nor the built-in Column header drop-down filter menus will take you there.
FilterZen made this possible, but until today this involved a number of redundant manual set-up steps. The more steps there are, or the more repetetive those are, the more there is scope for mistakes and omissions. As we saw how popular range filters are, we decided to save you even more hassle and time and further streamline the process for you...
]]>I have three SharePoint groups called Branch1, Branch2 and Branch3. What I want to have happen is that when user of Branch1 hit my list they only see Branch1's records. When Branch2 users connect they only she Branch2's records and so on.
An interesting filtering requirement that we wanted FilterZen (our SharePoint Filter Web Part) to support fully. Starting with build 3.6.0.10 (the newest available for download at the point of writing), this can now be achieved with any User Filter.
]]>We streamlined our previous three commercial editions (Standard, Professional and Enterprise) into two (Basic and Ultimate) and added a freeware edition called Lite. Starting today, each of our current and future SharePoint add-ons, Web Parts, tools and solutions will always be also offered in an unlimited freeware Lite edition, no strings attached...
]]>Sometimes, however, that is not quite the user experience you want to deliver for date range filtering. For example, users may prefer just selecting from readily populated drop-down lists bounding start and end months rather than picking the 1st and 31st dates via That Nuisance of a Date Picker. Just two days ago we received a request to that effect:
]]>With FilterZen, you can achieve this easily by configuring a FilterZen Filter Web Part as follows...
]]>We received one enquiry about programmatically creating and setting up the Web Part: a use case that was intriguing enough to warrant the following (code-heavy) tutorial.
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