/text/shared/guide/data_search2.xhp Sun Microsystems, Inc. FPE: Deleted screenshot. Cleaned. Needs restructuring! Searching With a Form Filter Open a form. As an example, open an empty text document and press F4. Open the bibliography database table biblio in the data source view. While pressing Shift+Ctrl, drag a few column headers into the document so that the form fields are created. Click the Design Mode On/Off icon Icon in the Form Functions floating toolbar to turn off the design mode. On the Form toolbar, click the Form-based filters icon Icon . The current document is displayed with its inserted form functions as an empty edit mask. At the bottom edge you will see the Filter bar. Enter the filter conditions into one or several fields. Note that if you enter filter conditions into several fields, the conditions will be joined by the Boolean AND. More information about wildcards and operators can be found in Query Design. If you click the Apply filter icon on the Filter bar, the filter is performed in the database. You see the Form toolbar and can browse the records. If you click on the Close button on the Filter bar, the form is displayed without a filter. In the form, click the Apply Filter icon Icon to change to the filtered view. The filter that has been set can be removed by clicking Remove Filter/Sort icon Icon . filters; Navigator To connect several filter conditions with Boolean OR, click the Filter navigation icon on the filter bar. The Filter navigator window appears. The filter conditions that have been set appear in the Filter navigator. As soon as a filter is set, you see a blank filter entry at the bottom of the Filter navigator . You can select this entry by clicking the word "Or". Once you have selected the blank filter entry, you can enter additional filter conditions in the form. These conditions are linked by Boolean OR to the previously defined conditions. The context menu can be called for each entry in the Filter navigator. You can edit the filter conditions in this area directly as text. If you wish to check if a field has content or no content, you can select the filter conditions "empty" (SQL:"Is Null") or "not empty" (SQL: "Is not Null"). It is also possible to delete the entry by using the context menu. You can move filter conditions in the Filter navigator by dragging and dropping, or use the keys Ctrl+Alt+ArrowUp or Ctrl+Alt+ArrowDown. To copy filter conditions, drag them while holding down the Command Ctrl key.