Rediscover the Power of Refined SharePoint Filtering. FilterZen is the best Filter Web Part for SharePoint yet. From one-click auto-filters to complete programmability, for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Standard + Enterprise, with powerful built-in filter types: Page Request (URL query string) filters, List Lookup Filters, SQL Data Filters, BDC Business Data Filters, User Filters, Date Filters, Page Column Filters, Choice Filters, Text Filters.
Using FilterZen, developing new filtered views on data will be just as easy as configuring a new hyperlink.These simple and yet so versatile building blocks empower you to give your SharePoint users more choices and faster access to relevant information, and lets you devise new, powerful solution design patterns.
Features:
Page Request Filters: Any URL is OK:
Grab multiple filter values dynamically from the Web Part Page request context: the URL query string, a single URL parameter, SharePoint-typical URL formats (think ‘k’), your own custom URL path structures, posted form data, server-side variables, you name it.
List Lookup, BDC & SQL Data Filters: Mash it All Up:
Grab filter values from any ADO.NET data source, Business Data Catalog (BDC) application, SharePoint List or Document Library, or have your users pick them on demand, sorted and pre-filtered by SQL query, View or custom CAML.
User Filters: Put Names to Faces:
Filter based on the current user, other dynamic users, or let your visitors pick a user filter value on demand, optionally sorted and pre-filtered by View or custom CAML.
Date Filters: Take Your Time:
Filter based on the current date or a pre-defined one, dynamically add or substract time spans or let your users pick a data filter value on demand.
Even More Filters — Optionally Interactive:
Convenient end-user interactive drop-down Choice filters, dynamic runtime Page Column filters and, naturally, the good old-fashioned, plain simple Text filters.
Across the Board: Powerful Capabilities:
Temporarily disable filters — control empty value handling — fall-back filter values — pre-filter choices on other list data — post-filter: lock out certain values or all-but-some — override all Web Part or filter settings via the URL — suppress invalid filter names — dynamically generated (one-click) interactive filters.
Troubleshooting made easy:
FilterZen Filter Web Part renders helpful diagnostic and contextual info messagesYou know the feeling: things that Should Theoretically Work, don’t. Thankfully, FilterZen’s Debug Output mode and diagnostic, contextual info messages reveal which filters your setup translates to in a breeze. It’s already On by default in Edit Mode.
Requirements:
- Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 or SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 (Standard or Enterprise)
