9 - Basic Searching: Filtering

You will eventually want to narrow your search results to aircraft operated by Frontier Airlines. Begin by applying some filters in the Explore perspective search bar.

🔨 Task Instructions

1. Return to the Explore perspective by clicking Explore in the top center of your screen.

2. Click into the search bar at the top. A property selector window appears below. Having read the Filter Results documentation, you know you can filter your search to objects in your set that contain keywords and/or particular property values or ranges.

   • ℹ️ You can also perform more open-ended searches using keywords.

3. Filter your object set by clicking the Operating Status property on the [Example Data] Aircraft object type.

4. Because this property is a string value, you’ll now see a histogram chart describing the available values for filtering. To illustrate the ability to filter out or filter to selected values, tick the box next to the No bar. Then toggle the Keeping ▾ option to Excluding ▾.

   • Observe the charts in the main body of the page update to reflect your filter; you are now working with a reduced set of objects that confirm to your filter specifications.
   • We can add filter parameters in the search bar. Having done a practice filter, you’ll now add one that will get us closer to our goal: a set of aircraft owned and operated by Frontier Airlines.

5. Click again into the search bar at the top of the screen.

6. Filter your object set by clicking the Carrier Code property on the [Example Data] Aircraft object type.

7. In the property field that now appears in the search bar, begin typing “F9,” which is the carrier code for Frontier Airlines.

8. Tick the F9 (Frontier Airlines) box in the filter histogram, and watch all of the charts in the exploration update to your selection. We've now narrowed down to just Frontier Airlines.

📚 Recommended Reading (~4 min read)

This course covers a small subset of the search features of Object Explorer. Before moving forward, you’ll want to read the Search Syntax and Filter Results entries in the documentation to better contextualize the course path here.