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title: "Configure smart filters"
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About smart filters
Smart filters are more versatile than the two other filter types (static and dynamic). Smart filters allow the users to:
- Filter the issues displayed by gadgets based on the current Rich Filter. The smart filters can be displayed as buttons with drop-down menus in *Rich Filter Controller* gadgets (similar to dynamic filters).
- Add computed columns and/or color-coding in *Rich Filter Results* gadgets.
- Build statistics on configurable criteria.
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Smart filters key attributes
The **Smart filters** section of your rich filter lets you add new smart filters and view existing ones and their key attributes.
The **key attributes** of a smart filter are:
| **Attribute** | **Description** |
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| **Name** | Each smart filter has a **name** that identifies it. This name is mandatory and must be unique among the other smart filters within the Rich Filter. |
| **Clauses** | A smart filter contains a list of clauses (options). Each clause is identified by a color and/or a label tag and has a JQL that is applied when the clause is used. |
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Add and edit smart filters
The **Smart filters** section of your rich filter allows you do to the following operations:
| **To do the following:** | **Do this:** |
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| **Add a new smart filter** | Click **Create smart filter** at the top-right of the page.
Type a name and click **Create**.
> ℹ️ You can add up to 30 smart filters in each rich filter. |
| **Reorder the smart filters** | In the *Smart filters* list, hold the pointer over the smart filter vertical **Grid **() icon, then drag up or down to the new position.
> ℹ️ When the smart filters of this rich filter are displayed by Controller Gadgets, they are displayed in the order configured in this section by default. |
| **Duplicate a smart filter** | Click the **Menu** () icon and select the **Duplicate** option.
Choose the name of the new smart filter and click **Duplicate**. A new smart filter identical to the first one, but with the name you have entered, is created.
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| **Delete a smart filter** | Click the **Menu** () icon and select the **Delete** option.
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| **Create a smart clause** | Click the **Plus** icon next to the smart filter to create a new smart clause.
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| When you create a new smart filter or click an existing smart filter, a new screen focusing on the selected smart filter is displayed. This screen lets you perform the following operations on the selected smart filter: |
| **Edit a smart filter’s name** | Click the **Edit **() icon next to the static filter.
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| **Add clauses to the smart filter** | 1. Click the **Create smart clause*** *button.
2. Select a color, enter a **Name** and a **JQL** clause, and click **Create**.
> ℹ️ You can add up to 10 smart clauses in each smart filter. |
| **Edit the clauses of the smart filter** | Click any smart clause to edit it (or click the corresponding **Edit **() icon at the right of the clause). Update the clause's color, name, and/or JQL clause, and click the **Update** button to save the changes.
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| **Delete clauses from the smart filter** | To delete clauses, click the **Delete** () icon.
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| **Reorder the clauses of a smart filter** | Hold the pointer over the vertical **Grid **() icon of the clause, then drag up or down to the new position.
> ℹ️ When the smart filter is displayed by Rich Filter gadgets, the smart filter options are displayed in the order as configured in this section. |
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Use **smart filters in rich filter gadgets**
Once configured, smart filters can be used in several rich filter gadgets:
- The** Rich Filter Controller **gadget – You can use the smart filters to apply additional filtering to the other rich filter gadgets. The smart filters are displayed as drop-down menus (similar to dynamic filters).
Learn more: [Rich Filter Controller Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803407087)
- The** Rich Filter Results **gadget – the smart filters can be added in views as smart columns
**See also:**
[Configuring Views](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803405905)
[Rich Filter Results Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803407090)
- The** Rich Filter Statistics **gadget – the smart filters can be used as statistics criteria
Learn more: [Rich Filter Statistics Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803407113)
- The** Rich Filter Flexi Charts **gadget – the smart filters can be used as statistics criteria
Learn more:[ Rich Filter Pie Chart Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803407059)
- The** Rich Filter Two Dimensional Statistics **gadget – the smart filters can be used as statistics criteria on any of the two axis or on both
Learn more: [Rich Filter Two Dimensional Statistics Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803407105)
- The** Rich Filter Smart Counters **gadget – the gadget displays one value for each of the clauses of the selected smart filter
Learn more:[ Rich Filter Smart Counters Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803407067)
- The** Rich Filter Smart Gauges **gadget – the gadget displays one gauge for each of the clauses of the selected smart filter
Learn more: [Rich Filter Smart Gauges Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803406976)
- **The Rich Filter Date Bar Chart gadget** – the smart filter can be used as a data split type
Learn more: [ Rich Filter Date Bar Chart Gadget](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803407039)
> ℹ️ When deciding under which clause an issue falls, we use *match-all criteria:* the same issue can be part of multiple clauses if it matches the JQL of each clause. This means that when the smart filter is used as a computed column or statistics criteria, it behaves as a multi-select option field.
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> ℹ️ If you want your clauses to be mutually exclusive, you need to write your JQL in such a way that an issue can match only one clause at any particular time. For instance, these are mutually exclusive clauses; an issue cannot possibly match more than one clause at a time:
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