Setting Filters

Use

With this procedure you can use filters with various criteria in the dates overview:

  • According to objects, for example Material , Group or Network

  • According to date attributes, for example, Date type , Variance , Date interval , or Status interval

  • According to Event

Procedure

Filter according to objects

  1. Choose

  2. Select the object to filter and enter the restriction.

  3. In restrictions, you can use the wild card *. For instance, if you enter P-13* in WBS element , the system only displays WBS elements that begin with P-13.

  4. Accept the filter criterion by choosing .

  5. To remove a filter set for an object, choose .

Filter according to date attributes

  1. Choose Date .

  2. Enter your filter criteria:

  • To only display a particular date type, select the date type in the Date type section.

  • To only display dates whose variance is larger than the tolerance you entered in Assigning Events to a Group , set an indicator for the relevant condition in the Variance section.

  • To only display a particular period, enter an interval for the relevant date type in the Date interval section.

  • To filter according to statuses that you have defined and set, you can set the statuses in the Status interval section. For example, you can only display events that you consider to be critical, via the status.

  1. Accept the filter criteria by choosing .

  2. To remove a filter, choose Date .

This pushbutton appears in the standard toolbar, if you have entered a restriction in Variance , Date interval , or Status interval . It does not appear, if you have only filtered according to date type. Consequently you cannot remove the filter with Date.

Filter events

  1. Choose Event .

  2. A list of events that are assigned to the current groups appears. The currently displayed events are selected.

  3. Deselect any events that you do not want to display..

  4. If you want to sort the events in a different order, select the relevant events, cut them out by choosing , select the event where they should be inserted, and paste by choosing .

  5. You can do the same in the overview by moving columns. In this case, however, the status column is not moved automatically with the event to which it belongs.

  6. Accept the filter by choosing .

  7. To cancel the filter conditions, choose Event again and select the required events.