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Declaring Filters and Comparisons In Use

You may want to make viewers aware of any Filters and/ or Comparisons you’ve used, as once they’ve been applied your report will no longer be fully representative of your respondent population.

This is added automatically: as soon as you apply a filter or comparison to a report, a ‘FILTERS’ (and/or ‘COMPARISONS’) page item appears listing each rule in plain English, with AND/OR badges between them — exactly as they’re set up in the Filter & Compare panel. A note under the list explains: “This is a page item which details the filters and comparisons applied to the report, it has been added automatically for your reference in print / PDF. You can remove the item by deleting it. This message will not appear in print / PDF.”

If it’s been deleted, you can re-insert it manually as the ‘Filter Information’ item:

  1. Go to the Results section
  2. Select ‘Add Item’ from the sidebar
  3. Choose ‘Filter Information’

Note: You must have a filter or comparison applied to the report for this to work — otherwise you’ll see an alert telling you a filter is required. You may also want to drag this item to the top of your report, so viewers are aware the results are tailored before reading.