About filter criteria and filter expressions for custom reports

Filters let you customize reports to include only the information that meets specific criteria.

For example, you can use filters to find the following:

Jobs that contain a specific word
Alerts that occurred on a specific day
Media that are in a specific location

You use filter criteria to create filter expressions. You can use one or multiple filter expressions. A filter expression consists of a field name, an operator, and a value.

The following filter expression finds all alerts for errors:

Table: Filter expression for finding alerts for errors

Filter type	Data
Field name	Alert type
Operator	= (Equal)
Value	Error

If you want the report to include only alerts for errors that occurred on a specific day, add another filter expression for the date.

The following filter expression finds alerts on a specific day:

Table: Filter expression for finding alerts on a specific day

Filter type	Data
Field name	Date entered
Operator	=(Equal)
Value	02/03/06