Hi - Unless I’m missing something, the UI doesn’t seem to indicate if a table widget is currently filtered by one or more values once you have “Saved” the current filters, nor does it provide a quick way to remove/clear all existing filters. Even if filter columns are pinned, once you save the current set of filters, there is no indication.
Example: Right-click on a value in a table column and select “Filter by this value” (the table filters and the filter icon turns green to indicate a filter is applied, but not yet saved). Click “Save”. The filter icon now reverts to gray, the table is still filtered, but there is no indication that the table is filtered (neither in the widget nor in the list of filters or the side panel). It is up to the user to “remember” this and worse, other users would have no idea.
The experience is similar if you proactively add a column to the filters list, then filter by one or more values… as soon as you click “Save”, you lose any awareness that there is a filter applied for the column.
It seems like the UI really could use 3 changes with respect to filters:
- An table-level indicator that the table has at least one filter applied (to any column). This should show somewhere (at least in the side panel, but probably in the widget itself near the filter icon).
- If the table has a filter applied, a way to “Remove all Filters” – similar to Excel’s “Clear Filter and Sort State” (but only for the filters).
- An indicator for any filter fields that the table is currently filtered by values in that field. I.e., for the pinned filters above the table, but also in the Table → Sort & Filter tab in the sidebar. I would envision something similar to how the filter turns green when you have a filter on the field (which only shows up until you save the current set of filters).
Thanks!