17 - Exercise Summary

Solution

The path we took to connect the table and the filter was circuitous for training purposes. A more direct development approach would be to:

1. Create an [o] All Flight Alerts variable.
2. Create a filter list widget with [f] Flight Alerts Filter as the output.
3. Create an [o] Filtered Flight Alerts variable that starts with [o] All Flight Alerts and filters using [f] Flight Alerts Filter.
4. Create an object table that uses [o] Filtered Flight Alerts as the input.

What you built

• A filter list widget with a distinct filter output variable.
• A new variable architecture that connects your filter selection to your object table.

What you learned

• Filter widgets create filter variables that can be used to define other object sets.
• Connecting a filter to an object table is a matter of ensuring the filter output variable is used to define the object set populating the table.