WFDSS Help | Creating Permanent Analysis Filters

Creating Analysis Filters

Analysis filters allow you to save your preferences for sorting the analysis list so that you can easily locate the analyses that you need. For example, if you are a Fire Behavior Specialist, you might only want to see analyses that are assigned to you in your Analysis List. To do this, you would create a filter that filters for only your analyses and you would select that filter as your default. Each time you log into WFDSS, those analyses will appear in your Analysis List.

You can create filters for analysis selecting the Edit Filter or Manage Filters options, which are located above the analysis list.

Edit Filter is primarily for editing existing filters or for applying analysis filters temporarily, but allows you to clear current selections to create a new filter.
Manage Filters allows you create new filters, delete analysis filters or select a default filter.

An analysis filter, once created, appears in the filters drop-down list and is available for you to use each time you log into WFDSS.

WFDSS Production and Training do not share filters; you will have to re-create filters as needed on each system if you choose.

Analysis filters can be created two ways:

To create an analysis filter using the Manage Filters button:

From the Incident List, click Analysis. The Analysis List page appears.
Click Manage Filter. The Analysis Filter List page appears.
Click Create New Filter. The Define Analysis Filter page appears.
Click Clear to remove any previous filters.
Enter a name for your filter.
Select the Request Date and Completion Date criteria.
Select the Analysis Type(s) to include in the filter.
Select the Analysis Status you want to include.
Select the Geographic Area(s) for the analyses you want to view, then click >> to include them in your criteria.
Enter a comma-separated list of Unit IDs to filter on (e.g., CACND, CAALT, NCNCF).
To filter by specific Analyst Name(s), Incident Author(s), or Incident Names, enter all or part of the name you are searching for > click Apply Filter to list the names that meet your criteria > click >> to include them in your filter. The selected names appear in the right-hand slush bucket. To remove a name, click <<.
Click Save Filter. The Analysis List reappears showing only those incidents that met your criteria, sorted by most recent Request Date.

If the Analysis List is empty, no analyses met all of your criteria. Go back to the Define Analysis Filters page and verify that you selected the correct criteria. Try removing some of your more restrictive criteria. (For example, if someone has changed the incident owner for the incident you are looking for, it will not show up on your list if you select the previous owner's name.)

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Last updated on 9/16/2016 10:58:43 AM.

To create an analysis filter using the Edit Filter button:

From the Incident List, click Analysis. The Analysis List page appears.
Click Manage Filter. The Analysis Filter List page appears.
Click Create New Filter. The Define Analysis Filter page appears.
Click Clear to remove any previous filters.
Enter a name for your filter.
Select the Request Date and Completion Date criteria.
Select the Analysis Type(s) to include in the filter.
Select the Analysis Status you want to include.
Select the Geographic Area(s) for the analyses you want to view, then click >> to include them in your criteria.
Enter a comma-separated list of Unit IDs to filter on (e.g., CACND, CAALT, NCNCF).
To filter by specific Analyst Name(s), Incident Author(s), or Incident Names, enter all or part of the name you are searching for > click Apply Filter to list the names that meet your criteria > click >> to include them in your filter. The selected names appear in the right-hand slush bucket. To remove a name, click <<.
Click Save Filter. The Analysis List reappears showing only those incidents that met your criteria, sorted by most recent Request Date.