Finding and Filtering Data

Finding and Filtering Data
 
Say that you would like to find any particular bird, or perhaps a group of birds, based on certain criteria. There are two easy way of doing this using the find and filter fields of the table display. Typing “R109” into the find field while observing the data below you can see how the data dynamically sorts itself to match your criteria. Note that this is a case sensitive matching.

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Using the filter is slightly more complicated: first type “R109” in the filter field and then type Enter (forgetting to type Enter is a common error), note that nothing really happened yet:

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Now click “Apply filter”:

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You can use combined filters with “wild cards” labeled as * (for everything) or use any regular expression you like in different fields – do not forget to type enter after each typing. Here is an example that returns all the birds whose name start with RR simple.



Click “Clear filters” after finding or filtering data to return to the full table display.

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