FILTERS: Schedule Filtering

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Modified on: Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 2:55 PM

Table of Contents

Overview
How To Do It
Reading Results
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Overview

Schedule filtering options allow Department Schedulers to see certain segments of the schedule or quickly narrow down what appears in the Section Dashboard.

How To Do It

PATH: Academic Scheduling > Section Dashboard

Step 1: Click the drill icon on the top-right corner of the page to open advanced filters.

Step 2: Click “+ Add Filter”.

Step 3:

Input the attributes, filter, and value you wish to apply.
If on the courses tab, you can filter for seven course fields.
If on the sections tab, you can filter for over 80 course and section fields.
Building a filter includes selecting one of 12 options (“filters” in the below screenshot), such as “contains” and “is”.
- Note that “is” looks for exact matches.
- Unless the value you enter is EXACTLY what you are hoping to filter for, we recommend using “contains” to avoid unintentionally filtering out sections/courses.
- For example, if you are filtering for instructors but some sections have more than one instructor, a filter that says “Instructors is Henry Thoreau” will only return sections where Henry Thoreau is the sole instructor. If Henry Thoreau teaches a section where another instructor is also assigned, that section would only appear if the filter you built said, “Instructors contains Henry Thoreau”.
The section attributes you see will depend on which fields an admin added to your section template.
You can also filter based on custom fields, but they will appear as the alphanumeric Question ID (which an admin can identify by cross-referencing with the Section Template).
The exact filters you see will depend on the selected attribute.

Step 4 (Optional):

Select “+ Add Filter” to add multiple filters to the same search.
A new row will be added and the Operator selector will become available where you will be able to choose between AND / OR logic.

Available Attributes & Filters

Attributes List
Course Attributes	Course Code	Course Description	Course Name	Course Notes
Course Status	Departments	Section Roll	Actual Enrollment	Actual Waitlist
Allow Integration	Billing Hours	Blind Grading	Campus	Career
Census Date	Contact Hours	Course Count	Credit Hours	CRN
Cross-Listed Courses	Days	Delivery Mode	Department	Drop Consent
End	End Date	Enrollment Capacity	Exam Seat Spacing	Final Exam Type
Free Format Topic	Gradable	Grade Mode	Ignore Double Bookings	Ignore Relationships
Instruction Mode	Instructor Edit	Instructors	Lab Hours	Lecture Hours
Location	Maximum Credit Hours	Meeting Pattern Code	Meeting Type	Minimum Credit Hours
Minimum Enrollment	Minimum Room Capacity	Object Merge Settings	Optimize Rooms	Optimizer Priority
Other Hours	Part of Term	Preferred Building	Preferred Buildings	Preferred Room Capacity
Preferred Room Features	Preferred Room Type	Preferred Rooms	Print Topic on Transcript	Registration Mode
Registration Other Restrictions	Registration Restrictions	Requirement Designation	Requirement Group	Room
Rule Exceptions	Schedule Print	Schedule Type	Section Attributes	Section Name
Section Notes	Section Number	Section Requirements	Section Status	Special Approval
Start	Start Date	Times Topic	Topic	Waitlist Capacity
Wingspan Available

Filters List
Contains	Does not contain	Is	Is Not	Is Empty
Is Not Empty	Starts With	Ends With	Longer Than	Shorter Than
Greater Than	Less Than

Step 5: Select “Apply Filter”.

Reading Results

If filtering on the Sections tab, results will include any sections that match the filter.
If filtering on the Courses tab, results will include any courses that match the filter.