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Filter
18. June 2026
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Fotoware Alto has two types of filters: sidebar filters (facets), which you find in the sidebar of your Content or List Browser (and other areas), and filter queries that you use in channels and tagboxes to filter for specific Content or List Items.
Sidebar Filters (Filters in the sidebar, aka facets)
Query Filters (Filters for channels or fields)
Create a Filter
You decide which filter you want to create.
For Sidebar Filters
- Open the List or Channel Settings
- Add your Filters using the Filter Editor
For Tagbox, Relationship Fields, or Channel Filters
- Open the Field Settings or Channel Settings.
- Edit the Filter.
- Add your Query Filter:
- Save.
Filters require values in fields that must have "Include in filters" configured. However, you cannot add a relationship, fieldset, or geo point fields directly to the Channel or List Filters. You can add the fields used in the underlying relationship or fieldset, provided they are not non-supported fields.
Update a Filter
Find the filter you want to edit in the field or schema settings.
- Select Edit (or the corresponding icon).
- Make the updates.
- Save.
If you change a filter, the display in the Content Browser adapts directly; any bookmarks referencing this Filter may break.
Filters require values in fields that must have "Include in filters" configured. However, you cannot add a relationship, fieldset, or geo point fields directly to the Channel or List Filters. You can add the fields used in the underlying relationship or fieldset, provided they are not non-supported fields.
If you change a Query Filter used in a Tagbox that prevents previously applied tags from being used, the tags will remain assigned to Content Items until those items are edited. They cannot be assigned new ones.
Delete a Filter
Find the filter you want to remove in the field or schema settings.
- Select Remove (or the corresponding icon) and then Save.
Users who have added a bookmark with an active filter you just removed will still have the items filtered and 1 active filter shown. The saved query string from the URL will still work even if the filter is no longer available in the sidebar.
