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title: Active Filters: Overview
slug: rbvm-help/active-filters-overview
createdAt: 2026-10-26T13:51:24.738Z
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**Summary**: High-level overview of active filters in Ivanti Neurons RBVM/ASPM/VULN KB.

Filters provide Ivanti Neurons RBVM/ASPM/VULN KB users with helpful ways of sorting findings and organizing scanner data. **Active filters** are a key component of sorting findings and vulnerabilities. Setting an active filter lets you take data in Neurons RBVM/ASPM/VULN KB and narrow your scope based on your select filters. You can set up several active filters at the same time. Clicking the **Active Filter (**:inlineImage[]{src="https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/9rfvxhrv8FA-8bxcK2IRv/3naDn1yia6Ne-K-TQja0Y_active-filters-overview.png" alt="Active Filter - Small" caption size="10" width="25" height="25"}**)** button on a list view allows you to set an active filter and view all filters currently applied to the list view.

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**Filter Category**: Select what field to filter by. Click the text box; an alphabetical list appears of all filterable fields. Either type your filter category and select it from the list or scroll through the list and select your filter category.

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**Is/Is Not**: Include/exclude specific data sets from your filter.

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**Operator**: Fine-tune what you want to filter. Options in this drop-down menu change depending on the filter category.

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**Remove Spaces Before and After Each Value:** When checked, the filter values entered will have whitespace removed before and after each value.

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**Value**: The value to filter for in the filter category. Click the text box; an alphabetical list appears of all available values. Either type out the value and select it from the list or scroll through the list and select your value.

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**Clear**: Clear the information from the fields. If you have already applied other filter criteria, clicking this button will not clear those items.

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**Add**: Add the new filter parameters to the active filter. When you click add, it will update the page’s list view with the filter applied.

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**Clear All**: Clear all fields and remove all applied filters. Only available when one or more filters are applied.

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**Save**: Save your current active filter. Only available when one or more filters are applied.

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There are two methods to determine if active filters are applied to your current data set.

**Active Filter Bar**: When filters are applied to a data set, they appear next to the page breadcrumbs in the active filter bar. This bar indicates that the provided criteria are filtering the data set. To remove a filter criterion, click the **X** button next to the filter criterion you want to remove. If this filter bar is not present, filters are not applied to the current data set.

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**Active Filter Button**: For additional details about the filters applied in the Active Filter bar, click the **Active Filter** button. All filter criteria appear underneath the box to add filter parameters. To remove a filter criterion, click the **X** button next to the filter criterion you want to remove. To edit the filter criterion, click the **pencil icon** next to the X to modify that filter setting.

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