autoFilter (AutoFilter Settings)

AutoFilter temporarily hides rows based on a filter criteria, which is applied column by column to a table of data in the worksheet. This collection expresses AutoFilter settings.

[Example: This example expresses a filter indicating to 'show only values greater than 0.5'. The filter is being applied to the range B3:E8, and the criteria is being applied to values in the column whose colId='1' (zero based column numbering, from left to right). Therefore any rows shall be hidden if the value in that particular column is less than or equal to 0.5.

<autoFilter ref="B3:E8">
<filterColumn colId="1">
<customFilters>
<customFilter operator="greaterThan" val="0.5"/>
</customFilters>
</filterColumn>
</autoFilter>

end example]

 

Parent Elements

customSheetView (§3.3.1.23); filter (§3.10.1.33); table (§3.5.1.2); worksheet (§3.3.1.96)

 

Child Elements	Subclause
extLst (Future Feature Data Storage Area)	§3.2.10
filterColumn (AutoFilter Column)	§3.3.2.7
sortState (Sort State)	§3.3.1.89

 

Attributes	Description
ref (Cell or Range Reference)	Reference to the cell range to which the AutoFilter is applied.   The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_Ref simple type (§3.18.64).

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_AutoFilter">

   <sequence>

   <element name="filterColumn" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="CT_FilterColumn"/>

   <element name="sortState" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" type="CT_SortState"/>

   <element name="extLst" type="CT_ExtensionList" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>

   </sequence>

   <attribute name="ref" type="ST_Ref"/>

</complexType>