Filters are a powerful tool for finding the exact assets that you need.
This article explains how Dash's search works when you apply multiple filters, so you can master Dash's multi-filtering capabilities to get the results that you're really looking for 👇🏻
Match all or any of given filters
When you choose multiple filtering options within the same filter, Dash will give you the option to either search against all selected options, or any of the selected options:
In this example, selecting multiple options from a "Plant Category" checklist field:
Selecting "any" would search for assets that contain either the Hanging & Trailing OR the Tall plants option.
Whereas selecting "all" would bring back assets that contain both the Hanging & Trailing AND Tall Plants option.
Filtering by a list of tags
Sometimes it can be useful and quicker to search or filter a selection of assets by a list of tags. For example, a very common use-case is to search assets by their "SKUs".
This option is available for tags and controlled tags types of fields. You can copy-paste the list of tags from an spreadsheet, and paste it in the field's filtering box. In the video below we show you how:
Note: when typing the list into the filtering box, or copy-pasting from a note or a word document, make sure that the tags are separated by commas ( , ).
Multiple filters from a dropdown list
When selecting multiple options within a Dropdown list, Dash will automatically search for assets that contain "any" of the selected option.
This is because it's not currently possible to assign multiple dropdown options to an asset, so searching for an asset that contains more than one dropdown option (from within the same dropdown field) would pull in zero results.
💡Did you know?
You can also keep track of how your filters are being applied by looking at the filter chips at the top of the search results - do they say "&":
...or do they say "or" between the selected options?
How to exclude tags from a filter (i.e. a "not" filter)
Read this article to learn how to exclude specific tags from a filter