Martyn - Are you referring to View headers, or to Data titles? At the moment, the Data titles are supposed to do this, and the View header is free text. If you do not show the View header, the Data titles should play the same role.

Could you please report the last point as a bug, and include a screenshot? Thanks...

Data titles should also pick-up the Named Query defining the subset of data in the view, if there is one.

Tom- I don't mean Data Titles. They usually display much more data than users need to know and I always switch them off.

I mean "Header" under the Style Menu, where I would like to show selections made using Device filters (which are not shown in the Data Titles.

Martyn - In version 2.8, you have the new Device View, which enables you to position filter devices anywhere...not just on the Sidebar. This will improve on the current situation in terms of clarifying which fields/values are filtered IN or OUT of a specific view.

The difficulty with changing the View header from only free text to something that picks up a filter setting is that there are often very many filters that could be set...

One would have to nominate which filter device would be the one that is picked up in the View Header of possibly only one View on the tab?

A drop-down menu either on the Devices menu or on the View header menu that enabled me to pick which filter selections to show in the View Header would deliver what I need.

Alternatively, a Device View that only showed selected filters in its own window (without all of the greyed out options) - would serve a similar purpose. This idea has, I think, come up before, but in a different context.

The problem that I have with using Sidebar Devices to illustrate selected filters is that invariably you have to scroll down to see all of the options, this means that on printed Export most of the filter selections are not shown as part of the view. Hope that makes sense.

Incidentally, what menu/ option do I use to reposition filter devices? Sounds useful, (but probably not for the above) but I haven't spotted it

It is coming in an upcoming build of 2.8 alpha...it is a new Device View option that can be added to any tab any number of times using Add View...

So to summarise this Idea, it is really two ideas intended to help consumers of static image and printed files (PowerPoint, PDF etc.) to understand which filter settings are in effect for any given combination of tab/view.

1. Nominate filter settings to be displayed as View headers for any given tab/view

and/or

2. Create a new, configurable Exclusions/Query diagnosis display in the new Device View that summarises which values are explicitly In/Out in a given view on a given tab.

That would do very nicely.

To clarify further:

Data titles can show a lot of information, but don't have to. Instead of hiding them altogether, right click individual devices to hide/show independently.

Also, page/view headers support formulae in {{double curly brackets}}. So if you have a single value isolated in a filter for field X, use "{{SUBSET_SINGLETON([X])}}" somewhere in your headers.

Useful info, wasn't aware of either option. Thanks