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How to work with filters in QBank

Is your search giving you too many options? You can refine your search by adding filters.

Use the Filters button to refine your media search by properties, dates, users, or usage type. After configuring each filter, click Add Filter. Once you have selected all the filters you need, click Apply Filters to run the search.

You can also save any number of filter sets for reuse. Saved filters appear in the left panel as folders marked with a search symbol.

By creating filters you can combine the power of free-text search with any available metadata field, both user-created and automatically extracted technical metadata such as file size, file formats etc. 

How you add a filter

To create a new filter, click the "Filters" button. In the example below, we filter for any PNG asset with a file size greater than 1MB. Read more about the different types of operators available here.

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How to save a filter for later use

If you want to be able to re-use a filter definition, click the Save icon. Your saved filter will appear in the left pane as a saved search folder marked  . 

Modifying an existing filter

You can modify the filter settings on a saved filter by right clicking on it in the left pane and selecting the Edit option. 

Tips When Searching on Filenames and Titles

Filename and title filters are limited to finding direct matches, and don't have the operator selection available. Instead, you can use percent signs (%) as wildcards to search for filenames or titles that contain a specific value.

An asset with the title "Amazing title" could be found using any of the following queries:

  1. "amazing%" — matches any asset with a title starting with "amazing"
  2. "%title" — matches any asset with a title ending with "title".
  3. "%zing%" — matches any asset where "zing" appears anywhere in the title.