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<img src="/uploads/upload/image/5200/direct/1595434860876-1595434860876.png" alt="Conceptual diagram showing a hand cursor clicking on a highlighted bar in a chart, illustrating the click-to-filter interaction. The left side shows gray bars with one golden/yellow bar being selected, and the right side shows the filtered result as blue bars of varying lengths." style="width: 363px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> In Protobi you can create a filter that applies to every element by pressing on any value. We call these current filters. Filters allows you to see how respondents who answered one question also answered other questions. They are applied globally, meaning if you filter anywhere you filter everywhere. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how you can include or exclude certain responses. For example, here is an overall distribution of responses to one question in a survey: <img src="/uploads/upload/image/5200/direct/1559860948184-Zr7obE-Gf_AvOxeMCtOx9iMfxMSSbWslYA.png" alt="Protobi data view showing question "IMPORTANCE" with the statement "I consider it important to eat a good breakfast in the morning." displayed as a horizontal bar chart. Five response options are shown with percentages: Strongly agree (33.3%), Somewhat disagree (38.8%), Meh (19.5%), Somewhat disagree (6.8%), and Strongly disagree (1.8%)." style="width: 360px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> ## Press to filter for one response ("is") Press on a value to select all cases for only that response. Here we've selected all respondents who "Strongly agree" by pressing on the value. The thin black outlines represent the baseline, which is all respondents. <img src="/uploads/upload/image/5200/direct/1559860962719-hBrLmKw-IHEqR-QHKlU87U937lIYeuJmgA.png" alt="Protobi data view of the IMPORTANCE question after filtering to "Strongly agree" respondents. The display now shows 100.0% for Strongly agree with a golden/yellow bar and black outline, while all other response options show 0.0% with thin bars and blue triangular indicators pointing to the baseline." style="width: 360px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> ## Multiple filters Pressing to filter "is" in multiple elements creates an "and" query. Below we are filtering for all respondents who answered "Strongly agree" in IMPORTANCE **AND** answered "Full-time" in q37. <img src="/uploads/upload/image/5200/direct/1578327428627-image%20for%20click%20to%20query.png" alt="Side-by-side view of two filtered questions: IMPORTANCE (left) and q37 (right). IMPORTANCE shows 100.0% for Strongly agree in golden/yellow. Question q37 asks about mothers working and shows 100.0% for Full-time in golden/yellow. Both displays show 0.0% for all other options, demonstrating an AND filter across both questions." style="width: 827px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> ## Alt + Press to filter for multiple responses ("or") Alt + Press (Windows) or Option + Press (Mac) on multiple values to view the analytics for those responses. Here we've pressed on two possible responses, but you can choose more than two if you so desire. This will allow us to view all answers of all persons who either "Strongly agree" or "Somewhat agree" have been selected. <img src="/uploads/upload/image/5200/direct/1559860990969-K5E9F-YaMCBzr3-YGmpLaOmevfLxjerG1w.png" alt="Protobi data view showing an OR filter applied to the IMPORTANCE question. Two values are selected: Strongly agree (46.2%) and Somewhat disagree (53.8%), both displayed with golden/yellow bars and black outlines. The remaining three options (Meh, Somewhat disagree, Strongly disagree) show 0.0% with blue indicators." style="width: 360px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Note: Currently "or" queries only work *within* an element. Alt/Option + Press does not work between different elements; any attempts will yield "and" queries. ## Shift + Press to exclude ("not") Shift + Press on a value to exclude that specific response. By holding the Shift key while pressing on "Strongly agree," we've selected all people who do NOT "Strongly agree." <img src="/uploads/upload/image/5200/direct/1559860977574-3GjnXszx4rQJXBxdXgDxPwgB0O4kOQZIxw.png" alt="Protobi data view showing a NOT filter applied to the IMPORTANCE question. Strongly agree shows 0.0% with an empty bar, while the other four responses show redistributed percentages in golden/yellow bars: Somewhat disagree (58.1%), Meh (29.2%), Somewhat disagree (10.1%), and Strongly disagree (2.6%)." style="width: 360px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> ##
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