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Smart Search: New or Edit Filter

This screen allows you to create a new search filter or amend an existing one.

Select Components → Smart Search → Filters from the Administrator menu. Then...
- Select the New Toolbar button to create a new filter.
- Select a title link in the Title column to edit an existing filter.

Title. The Title for this item. This may or may not display on the page, depending on the parameter values you choose.
Alias. The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla will fill in a default value Title in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. Learn more.

Map Count. The number of maps included in the filter.
Toggle Selection. The Toggle Selection button will change all the selections in the opposite way. So selected will change into unselected and unselected will change into selected.
Expand all. The Expand all button will open all the maps and show the items inside.

Publishing panel

Created Date. Date the item(Article, Category, Weblink, etc.) was created.
Created By. Name of the Joomla! User who created this item. This will default to the currently logged-in user. If you want to change this to a different user, click the Select User button to select a different user.
Alias. This optional field allows you to enter an alias for the Author of the filter.
Modified Date: (Informative only) Date of last modification.
Modified By: (Informative only) Username who performed the last modification.

Filter Timeline panel

When (Start Date). When to search relative to the start date (before, after or exactly).
Start Date. Format YYYY-MM-DD.
When (End Date). When to search relative to the end date (before, after or exactly).
End Date. Format YYYY-MM-DD.

At the top of the page you will see the toolbar shown in the Screenshot above. The functions are:

Save. Saves the item and stays in the current screen.
Save & Close. Saves the item and closes the current screen.
Save & New. Saves the item and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another item.
Cancel. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made. Or
Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made. This toolbar icon is not shown if you are creating a new item.
Help. Opens this help screen.

Smart Search was introduced in Joomla 3.0 but is not enabled by default in that version.
If you are new to Smart Search then you should read the Smart Search quickstart guide.