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> Macro (aura-html)


## Rich Filter

Unlike the native Jira gadgets based on [native Jira filters](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver/saving-your-search-as-a-filter-939937724.html), all the gadgets added by the *Rich Filters for the Jira Dashboards* app are based on a data source called *Rich Filter*. A rich filter is a Jira native filter wrapper, extending the Jira native filter to include additional definitions for extra filtering capabilities on top of the native filter, issue highlighting, multiple views for the results, computed fields, and other settings that the Rich Filter Gadgets can use.

## Rich Filter Gadget

The gadgets provided by the *Rich Filters for the Jira Dashboards* app are called *Rich Filter Gadgets*. All rich filter gadgets are based on rich filters and have one particular property – two or more rich filter gadgets are linked together in a dashboard if they share the same rich filter. For example, a *Rich Filter Controller *gadget can change the data displayed by a *Rich Filter Results *gadget if both the *Rich Filter Controller* and the *Rich Filter Results* are based on the same rich filter. 

There are twelve types of rich filter gadgets grouped into five categories:

### 1. Controlling the dashboard content

### 2. Displaying issues

### 3. Statistics gadgets

### 4. Gauges and counters

### 5. Time-based charts

**See also:**

[Configuring Rich Filters](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803406480) 

[Working with Rich Filter Gadgets](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RFP/pages/803406474)